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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...
How Health Systems Leaders Use Strategic Planning And Marketing In Healthcare Systems
Operating a healthcare facility is complicated. Without careful planning, problems can arise that impact the quality of care offered. Health systems leaders use a variety of tools and tactics to ensure that operations are well-managed and streamlined. Good planning...
Staying Safe: Tips to Protect Yourself from Credit Card Fraud
Credit card fraud happens when someone uses your credit card or bank details to make unauthorized purchases or payments. Basically, your money is digitally stolen. If you are lucky, you get notification from your credit card company or bank that a purchase has been...
Ross Cameron’s New Book Shatters Day-Trading Myths: A Journey Into the Truth
Ross Cameron has emerged as a prominent figure in the day-trading world, challenging the misconceptions and myths surrounding this fast-paced industry. With the release of his latest book, How to Day Trade: The Plain Truth, Cameron aims to provide aspiring and...
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Gender care review author attacks ‘misinformation’
PA MediaBy Thomas MackintoshBBC NewsThe author of the landmark Cass review into gender identity services for young people says she is "very angry" about "misinformation" spread about her work. Dr Hilary Cass's review this month found "remarkably weak" evidence on...
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...
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...
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...
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...