Valerie E. Stone
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Valerie Stone Obituary | Brenans Funeral Home | Saint John, NB
Valerie Stone, 86, passed away on September 29, 2026, in Saint John, New Brunswick. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England in 1939. Valerie leaves behind her daughter Tina (Kevin), son Mark (Nicole), grandchildren Jared (Georgia) and Ben (Morgan), and great-grandsons Albert and Arthur. She also leaves behind her beloved granddogs Coolio, Fish, Hooper and Trout. Val loved going out for dinner and attending the theatre with her friends.
Medicine’s DEI backlash offers an opportunity to refocus on evidence-based approaches - Nature Medicine
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has become a political lightning rod in the USA, with its laudable mission increasingly misinterpreted as a blunt discriminatory tool. Although such critique has been ongoing for decades, it has intensified in academic medicine in recent months, from the resignation of Johns Hopkins’ chief diversity officer over an email on privilege, to efforts within the American Academy of Dermatology to sunset DEI activities.
Reactogenicity and Concomitant Administration of the COVID-19 Booster and Influenza Vaccine
Concomitant administration of the COVID-19 vaccine booster and the seasonal influenza vaccine could support uptake of both vaccines, augmenting protection against these preventable infectious diseases with potential implications for racial and ethnic disparities in vaccination rates.1 Vaccine coadministration could also introduce efficiencies in currently overburdened health care settings.
‘The difference between life and death’
DR. VALERIE STONE A health equity leader offers her insights into our health care system – and the impact a primary care provider can make When I was a child, my father, a detective for the prosecutor in Newark, N.J., sized up my aptitude for calculus and chemistry, and talent for puzzles and brain-teasers, and declared, “This is the mind of a future lawyer!” But any aspirations I had for the courtroom were set aside when I was 13 and my grandmother became extremely ill.
This Quilt Pattern Became a Source of Comfort in Her Grief
Her mother had passed without saying the three words she longed to hear. Would she find the connection longed for? ”I’ve taken up quilting,” my mother announced proudly over the phone one day. “That’s great, Mom,” I said. My 70-year-old mother was undergoing chemotherapy for a malignant tumor on her appendix—the latest complication in an 18-year battle with cancer, a battle I knew she would someday lose. Maybe soon. It broke my heart for more reasons than one.
White Coats for Black Lives: The Time Has Come for Action
For a record 21 days and counting, people across the nation have taken to the streets. From every walk of life, every race, many masked, none silent, they protest racism and police brutality in support of Black lives. The White Coats for Black Lives movement was born in 2015 out of the outrage that medical students felt following the senseless murders, at the hands of the police, of Michael Brown and Eric Garner (1, 2).
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