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Why It’s So Hard to Change Our Habits
X Reasons Why We Find It So Hard to Change Habits If you've done something a certain way your entire life, it will be incredibly difficult for you to change your pattern of behavior around it. This ranges from directly harmful habits, like routinely consuming harmful...
The Role Of Nurses In Detecting Elder Abuse And Neglect
Going through aging comes with many happy and positive moments. However, some seniors living alone and those in elderly care homes face different challenges that can impact their physical and mental health. Many have to deal with loneliness, anxiety, depression and...
Kentucky Ranks as One of the Worst States for Drivers
In August 2023, Forbes Advisor released its list of states with the worst drivers in the United States. Forbes staff used publicly available data from various sources dated between 2018 and 2023 and made determinations based on six fatal incident metrics. They...
How Paying More Can Save You Money in the Long Run
When Paying More Saves You Money: X Key Takeaways It seems like an obvious contradiction that paying more money can save you money, but on a long enough time scale, this often works. If you're willing to spend a bit more money up front, and spend a bit of extra time...
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Medical Providers Still Grappling With UnitedHealth Cyberattack: ‘More Devastating Than Covid’
Two months after a cyberattack on a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary halted payments to some doctors, medical providers say they’re still grappling with the fallout, even though UnitedHealth told shareholders on Tuesday that business is largely back to normal. “We are...
Sunak sets out plans to tackle ‘sick note culture’
PA MediaBy James Gregory & Jennifer McKiernanBBC NewsRishi Sunak wants to strip GPs of their power to sign people off work as part of a plan to tackle what he calls the UK's "sick note culture".The prime minister claims benefits have become a "lifestyle choice" for...
He Thinks His Wife Died in an Understaffed Hospital. Now He’s Trying to Change the Industry.
For the past year, police Detective Tim Lillard has spent most of his waking hours unofficially investigating his wife’s death. The question has never been exactly how Ann Picha-Lillard died on Nov. 19, 2022: She succumbed to respiratory failure after an infection put...
In San Francisco’s Chinatown, a CEO Works With the Community To Bolster Hospital
SAN FRANCISCO — Chinese Hospital, located in the heart of this city’s legendary Chinatown, struggles with many of the same financial and demographic challenges that plague small independent hospitals in underserved areas across the country. Many of its patients are...
Ketamine addict: ‘I can’t walk 50m without weeing’
By Rachel StonehouseBBC West InvestigationsExperts are warning of an alarming increase in bladder issues among young people due to chronic ketamine use.People as young as 21 are having major, risky surgery to treat problems caused by addiction, doctors say.Beth, an...
Newsom Offers a Compromise to Protect Indoor Workers from Heat
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has compromised on long-sought rules that would protect indoor workers from extreme heat, saying tens of thousands of prison and jail employees — and prisoners — would have to wait for relief. The deal comes a...
Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones
By Chris Vallance & Philippa WainTechnology reportersNearly a quarter of UK five-to-seven-year-olds now have their own smartphone, Ofcom research suggests.Social media use also rose in the age group over last year with nearly two in five using messaging service...
Children used as ‘guinea pigs’ in clinical trials
Allan ArchiveBy Chloe Hayward and Hugh PymHealth producer and health editor, BBC NewsThe true scale of the number of medical trials using infected blood products on children in the 1970s and 80s has been revealed by documents seen by BBC News.They reveal a secret...
Too Big To Fail? Now It’s ‘Too Big To Hack’
The Host Lawmakers in Washington this week held the first congressional hearing on the Change Healthcare cyberattack, a breach that sent shock waves through the health care system as payments for care ground to a halt and left some providers in financial trouble....
More young, affluent women may be smoking – study
Getty ImagesThere appears to have been a rise in the proportion of middle class and wealthier women under the age of 45 smoking in England, research from University College London suggests. The percentage of women in this group who smoked rose from 12% to 15% between...
Scotland’s under-18s gender clinic pauses puberty blockers
Getty ImagesBy Mary McCoolBBC Scotland newsScotland's NHS has paused prescribing puberty blockers to children referred by a gender identity clinic.The Sandyford clinic in Glasgow also said new patients aged 16 or 17 would no longer receive other hormone treatments...
NHS weight management service offered to under fours
By Matthew HillHealth correspondent, West of EnglandA baby as young as eight months old has been seen by a new weight management service for severely obese children.A growing number of pre-school children are severely overweight in Somerset. The NHS service, called...