August 31, 2021

Lifestyle Interventions to Help Patients with Depression

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In the last few years, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the number of people battling depression. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that symptoms of depressive disorder rose considerably from April-June 2020 over the same period in 2019. Depression itself is a serious condition. Defined as a mood disorder, depression causes unrelenting sadness and …

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February 18, 2021

Silver Fern’s Whole-Health Approach to be a Featured ACLM Webinar on February 26

Please join us on February 26th at noon for a free webinar offered by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) featuring Silver Fern’s Chief Scientific Officer, Garry Welch, Ph.D., and Chief Client Officer, Cindy Wicks. During the webinar, we will explore the challenges and opportunities of implementing lifestyle medicine and behavior medicine at scale …

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December 21, 2020

Silver Fern Wraps Up 2020 Adding Hypertension Program to Its Proven Platform

On December 21, 2020, Silver Fern Healthcare released Hypertension, the newest chronic disease program featured on its proven Behavior Diagnostic Platform. This Platform provides chronic care management teams with previously inaccessible insights to improve treatment plans and achieve better health outcomes for people with chronic diseases. The Hypertension Program applies Silver Fern’s evidence-based techniques for …

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November 13, 2020

Dr. Welch, Silver Fern Healthcare Co-Founder and CSO, featured guest on “The Public Health Podcast”

Dr. Garry Welch, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Silver Fern Healthcare, was recently invited to speak about his expertise in chronic disease management on “The Public Health Podcast.” The podcast is produced by a team of NPR veterans and is hosted by Ryan Birchmeier and Katie Fendler, a brother-sister duo that is “bringing the public back into public …

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November 10, 2020

Silver Fern Healthcare CEO, Colleen McGuire, invited to facilitate conversation on chronic disease prevention at the Harvard Business School Healthcare Alumni Association 21st Annual Conference

The Harvard Business School Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) recently held its 21st Annual Conference virtually on November 5th and 6th. Colleen McGuire, HBS alumna and Co-Founder and CEO of Silver Fern Healthcare, was invited to the event to facilitate a roundtable discussion entitled “Chronic Disease Prevention, Treatment and Management”. During the session, Colleen led a discussion about the importance of lifestyle-based strategies for treating and managing chronic diseases. She described how our current approach to treating conditions such as diabetes or hypertension primarily uses pharmaceutical and surgical interventions which fail to focus on prevention or to address the root causes of …

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October 22, 2020

Part 3 – A deep dive into the treatment options for type 2 diabetes: Intensive lifestyle change

This post looks at a third treatment option for patients living with type 2 diabetes: intensive lifestyle change to achieve remission. Our two previous posts in this series covered medication management, which focuses on diabetes control, and gastric surgery, which focuses on remission – defined as achieving normal blood glucose without diabetes pills or injections. …

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