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How to Fight Arthritis Pain: 5 Important Tips
Arthritis is a common problem, especially amongst those over 40 or with athletic history. It can make it difficult to live and maintain an active lifestyle, and can be quite demoralizing or debilitating for some. While there is not a way to completely remove...
A Guide To Choosing The Right Pillow For You
Sleep is one of the most important parts of staying healthy. While sleeping, your body repairs itself from all the damage acquired throughout the day. Sleep helps your immune system work properly, reduces drastic weight fluctuations, improves your mental health and...
Title Conducting a Pay Equity Analysis
To protect their organizations while also improving employees’ pay situation, human resource leaders should examine in-house pay rates and correct any disparities. That means conducting a pay equity analysis. Here’s how that works and why it’s important. The Issue Pay...
6 Tips for Managing Your Online Gambling Expenses
Online casinos have the benefit of being accessible all the time from wherever you are with an internet connection. This is also one of their biggest drawbacks. This makes managing your gameplay and budget much more difficult. If you already had an issue with spending...
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Watch: UVA Doctor Talks About the State of the Pandemic and Health Equity
[embedded content] Just as covid-19 vaccines were rolling out, Dr. Taison Bell spoke with KHN about why Black Americans were getting vaccinated at lower rates than white Americans were. More than a year later, we checked in with Bell, an assistant professor of...
Novavax Missed Its Global Moonshot but Is Angling to Win Over mRNA Defectors
Novavax hitched its wagon to the global coronavirus pandemic. Before most Americans truly grasped the scope of the danger, the small Maryland biotech startup had secured $1.6 billion in U.S. funding for its covid vaccine. Its moonshot goal: delivering 2 billion shots...
Pfizer will not sell drugs for profit in poor nations
"We know there are a number of hurdles that countries have to overcome to gain access to our medicines. That is why we have initially selected five pilot countries to identify and come up with operational solutions and then share those learnings with the remaining...
The Blackfeet Nation’s Plight Underscores the Fentanyl Crisis on Reservations
BROWNING, Mont. — As the pandemic was setting in during summer 2020, Justin Lee Littledog called his mom to tell her he was moving from Texas back home to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana with his girlfriend, stepson, and son. They moved in with his mom,...
As ‘Trigger Law’ Looms, New Clinic Preps to Provide Abortions in Conservative Bastion
More than 100 people have been attending weekly anti-abortion prayer vigils outside the site of a future Casper, Wyoming, clinic offering abortion and other health care services. (Arielle Zionts / KHN) Abortion rights supporter Rikki Hayes demonstrates near the site...
Monkeypox: UK cases rise to 71, with vaccines for high-risk contacts
Most are in Europe, where it is rarely seen, although there have been more than 1,200 cases in recent months in West Africa, where it is always present. In the UK, all the cases are in England, apart from one in Scotland. No cases have been found in Wales or Northern...
‘Almost Like Malpractice’: To Shed Bias, Doctors Get Schooled to Look Beyond Obesity
When Melissa Boughton complained to her OB-GYN about dull pelvic pain, the doctor responded by asking about her diet and exercise habits. The question seemed irrelevant, considering the type of pain she was having, Boughton thought at the time. But it wasn’t unusual...
Tribal Pharmacy Dispenses Free Meds and Fills Gaps for Native Americans in the City
MINNEAPOLIS — Tucked away on a side street near downtown, the Mashkiki Waakaa’igan Pharmacy offers its Native American clientele the services of any ordinary drugstore — it dispenses critical medication and provides consultation on treatments. But there are two key...
NHS 111: Parents anger over four child deaths
Known as NHS Pathways, the algorithm relies on answers being given over the phone to a set series of questions. The system guides call handlers, who are not medically qualified, to direct patients to other parts of the NHS for further assessment and treatment. Article...
North East Ambulance Service: Cover-up claims to be probed by government
Dr Mathew Beattie, medical director of the NEAS Trust, said: "We always welcome external scrutiny, and we've had a significant amount of it over the past two years regarding our policy and procedures relating to our relationship with the coroner and releasing...
NHS mental health trust sets up food bank for staff
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which covers Watford, Hemel Hempstead and St Albans, said it was about to launch an Essentials Hub for staff and the local community which would provide food and necessities in an initiative led by the Watford and West...
The New MADD Movement: Parents Rise Up Against Drug Deaths
Life as he knew it ended for Matt Capelouto two days before Christmas in 2019, when he found his 20-year-old daughter, Alexandra, dead in her childhood bedroom in Temecula, California. Rage overtook grief when authorities ruled her death an accident. The college...