Within minutes, the words he wanted to speak appeared on a monitor and were spoken aloud by a computer in a voice resembling his own using recordings from videos made before his diagnosis. It brought everyone in the room to tears. “On day two of this use by Casey, he was talking to his daughter for the first time in her memory. That was so gratifying,” says UC Davis Neuroprosthetics Lab co-director Sergey Stavisky.

The approach of Whole Health, a movement led by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, is “Let me understand who you are as a person. … What matters to you as opposed to what’s the matter with you,” says Dr. Michelle Dossett. “I think eventually it’s going to transform what we do in conventional medicine in this country more broadly.”

Increasingly, more people are choosing IVF as the route to parenthood, but the process remains expensive and time-consuming. Over the years, however, improvements in technology have helped and even streamlined treatments. And researchers aren’t done.

WellSpace is strengthening its behavioral work, announcing on Oct. 9 that its certified community behavioral health clinic had received the Gold Seal of Approval from The Joint Commission.

National Center for Health Workforce Analysis figures from November 2022 show there could be a shortage of over 78,000 full-time registered nurses in the U.S. by next year, and that the shortage could last several years. CalMatters reported in July 2023 that California was short around 36,000 licensed nurses, citing figures from UC San Francisco, which studies the nursing workforce.