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Dangerous Roads in California
According to the National Safety Council, tens of thousands of people die in traffic-related crashes and accidents every year. A high number of related fatalities in California often cause the state to rank on lists about the nation's most dangerous roads. The...
Modesto Car Accident Study
A recent study analyzed the car accidents in the city of Modesto and the surrounding cities in Stanislaus County. The findings give in sight to the most dangerous days and times to drive in the Modesto area. They also serve as a warning to all drivers. Traffic...
Causes of Increase in US Pedestrian Accidents
Since 2010, pedestrian deaths are up 77% according to the Governors Highway Safety Association data. Why did over 7,500 people die while walking or jogging on a roadway last year? Every day, on average, 20 Americans walk along a roadway and are killed by a vehicle. In...
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...
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RFK Jr. Misses Mark in Touting Rural Health Transformation Fund as Historic Infusion of Cash
“It’s going to be the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health care in American history.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sept. 4, 2025, in a Senate hearing At a September Senate hearing, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. boasted about a...
‘It gave me my voice back’: How group singing is helping new mums with postnatal depression
7 hours agoShareSaveJim ReedHealth reporterShareSaveSpecially designed singing classes are clinically effective at treating mums with postnatal depression, a major three-year study has found. The authors say they could also be cost effective for the NHS at a time when...
Questions over mysterious death in mental health hospital
26 minutes agoShareSaveJames MelleySenior Social Affairs ProducerShareSaveFamily photoA mental health trust says it is planning to install CCTV following the death of a patient in mysterious circumstances.Maria Morris, 44, was found unresponsive at Bethlem Hospital in...
Grave concerns over patient safety system in mental health units
2 hours agoShareSaveSophie HutchinsonBBC health correspondent andStuart Woodwardat the Lampard InquiryShareSaveBBCThe public inquiry into the deaths of at least 2,000 people under the care of mental health services heard "grave concerns" about the use of a digital...
California’s Health Insurance Marketplace Braces for Chaos as Shutdown Persists
California this week plans to notify Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollees that their costs could rise sharply next year unless Congress extends subsidies to help people buy health insurance. Health care analysts say the nation’s uninsured population will rise...
Listen: Green Goodbyes: Choosing an Eco-Friendly Burial
Cremation has become Americans’ most popular choice for the postmortem treatment of their bodies. But the process involves burning fossil fuels, which may release toxic gases. “The New Old Age” columnist Paula Span appeared on WAMU’S Oct. 8 “Health Hub” to explain...
Why Brittle Bones Aren’t Just a Woman’s Problem
Ronald Klein was biking around his neighborhood in North Wales, Pennsylvania, in 2006 and tried to jump a curb. “But I was going too slow — I didn’t have enough momentum,” he recalled. As the bike toppled, he thrust out his left arm to break the fall. It didn’t seem...
Targeted prostate cancer screening could save countless lives, says Sunak
3 hours agoShareSaveHugh Pymhealth editor andKathryn ArmstrongShareSaveBBCA targeted prostate cancer screening programme for men at the highest risk could "save countless lives", former prime minister Rishi Sunak has told the BBC. Prostate Cancer Research, of which...
‘My leg helped rebuild my tongue after cancer’
7 hours agoShareSaveJen SmithSouth West health correspondentShareSaveBBCA woman whose tongue had to be reconstructed with a piece of her leg because of mouth cancer is urging people to check for the warning signs.Candi Hulley, 52, from Bude, Cornwall, said a chance...
Eat kiwi fruit to relieve constipation, says guidance
Eating several kiwi fruit a day can help relieve constipation and is a better starting point than worrying about a high-fibre diet, according to new guidance on the condition.The advice says drinking water high in minerals is better for constipation than tap water,...
Watchdog vows Botox crackdown after BBC exposé
The pharmacists' watchdog has promised to investigate and "take action" after the BBC exposed illegal and potentially harmful practices in the aesthetic Botox industry.Under UK law, Botox can only be supplied under prescription by a qualified medic following a...
‘We are inventing captivity medicine’: Hospital prepares for freed Israeli hostages
2 days agoShareSaveTim FranksPetah TikvaShareSaveBBCWhen the first hostages are released by Hamas in Gaza, taken into Israel and transferred by helicopter to the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva, Dr Michal Steinman will take them up to the sixth floor, swipe open...