by News Feed Editor | May 15, 2024 | Health
The Mi’kmaq Nation spent about $50,000 of its opioid settlement funds to build a healing lodge it will use for traditional sweat ceremonies to help people recover from addiction. (Aneri Pattani/KFF Health News)John Dennis leads sweat ceremonies focused on addiction...
by News Feed Editor | May 15, 2024 | Health
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Jolynn Mungenast spends her days looking for ways to help people pay their hospital bills. Working out of a warehouse-like building in a scruffy corner of this former industrial town, Mungenast gently walks patients through health insurance options,...
by News Feed Editor | May 14, 2024 | Health
Jamie Niblock/BBCBy Nikki Fox & Matt PreceyBBC NewsnightMore and more UK hospitals are leaving patients in corridors due to a lack of bed space. NHS bosses say so-called corridor care is freeing up ambulances and saving lives, but BBC Newsnight has spoken to...
by News Feed Editor | May 14, 2024 | Health
Getty ImagesBy Philippa RoxbyHealth reporterMillions of middle-aged people have been mistakenly led to believe they are not obese, according to an Italian study that looked at body-fat percentage instead of body-mass index.Using a new, lower BMI cut-off for obesity...
by News Feed Editor | May 14, 2024 | Health
In early 2020, with reports of covid-19 outbreaks making dire headlines, Trever Schapers worried about her father’s safety in a nursing home in Queens. She had delighted in watching her dad, John Schapers, blow out the candles on his 90th birthday cake that February...
by News Feed Editor | May 14, 2024 | Health
Jacqueline Saa has a genetic condition that leaves her unable to stand and walk on her own or hold a job. Every weekday for four years, Saa, 43, has relied on a home health aide to help her cook, bathe and dress, go to the doctor, pick up medications, and accomplish...