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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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Medicare’s Push To Improve Chronic Care Attracts Businesses, but Not Many Doctors
Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors’ medical assistant, who asks how she’s doing and if she needs prescription refills. The assistant counsels her on dealing with anxiety and her other health issues. Lester credits the chats...
Sweden votes to lower age to change legal gender to 16
ReutersBy Francesca GillettBBC NewsSweden's parliament has passed a law lowering the age at which people can change their legal gender from 18 to 16, and making the process easier.The law passed with 234 votes in favour and 94 against in Sweden's parliament.Though...
Paris Hilton Backs California Bill Requiring Sunshine on ‘Troubled Teen Industry’
Celebrity hotel heiress Paris Hilton is backing California lawmakers’ push to increase the transparency of residential teen therapeutic centers by requiring these programs to report the use of restraints or seclusion rooms in disciplining minors. “We shouldn’t be...
To Stop Fentanyl Deaths in Philadelphia, Knocking on Doors and Handing Out Overdose Kits
On a narrow street lined with row houses and an auto body shop in the Kensington neighborhood of North Philadelphia, Marsella Elie climbs a home’s front steps and knocks hard on the door. A middle-aged man appears with a wary look on his face. “Hello, sir, how are you...
Call to ban smacking in England and Northern Ireland
Getty ImagesBy Philippa RoxbyHealth reporterSmacking children should be made illegal in England and Northern Ireland, say children's doctors, calling current laws "unjust and dangerously vague". Their report warns children suffer lasting mental and physical effects...
FDA Announces Recall of Heart Pumps Linked to Deaths and Injuries
A pair of heart devices linked to hundreds of injuries and at least 14 deaths has received the FDA’s most serious recall, the agency announced Monday. The recall comes years after surgeons say they first noticed problems with the HeartMate II and HeartMate 3,...
Lawsuit Alleges Obamacare Plan-Switching Scheme Targeted Low-Income Consumers
A wide-ranging lawsuit filed Friday outlines a moneymaking scheme by which large insurance sales agency call centers enrolled people into Affordable Care Act plans or switched their coverage, all without their permission. According to the lawsuit, filed in U.S....
California Health Workers May Face Rude Awakening With $25 Minimum Wage Law
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly a half-million health workers who stand to benefit from California’s nation-leading $25 minimum wage law could be in for a rude awakening if hospitals and other health care providers follow through on potential cuts to hours and benefits. A...
Conservative Justices Stir Trouble for Republican Politicians on Abortion
Abortion opponents have maneuvered in courthouses for years to end access to reproductive health care. In Arizona last week, a win for the anti-abortion camp caused political blowback for Republican candidates in the state and beyond. The reaction echoed the response...
MPs to vote on smoking ban for those born after 2009
Getty ImagesBy Jennifer McKiernan & Helen CattBBC PoliticsPlans to stop young people born since 2009 ever smoking are to be debated and voted on later.Rishi Sunak's bill aims to create the UK's first smoke-free generation in a major public health intervention.The...
Arm skin patch could warn of organ rejection
NHSBTBy Michelle RobertsDigital health editorSome people having a lung transplant on the NHS will receive a skin patch graft from their donor too as a way of spotting organ rejection sooner. Rejection could show as a rash on the donated skin patch, say experts,...
Young nose cells may help children fight off Covid
Getty ImagesBy Philippa RoxbyHealth reporterChildren are less likely than adults to develop severe Covid, because cells in their nose are better at fighting off the virus, a study suggests.Lab tests show ageing adult nose cells contain 100 times more virus in the...