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What You Need To Know About Assisted Living
For most adults in this generation, we are entering a phase of life where terms like assisted living or residential care are becoming commonly used around us. The reason for this is that the majority of people are starting to consider these terms for their parents or...
Major Benefits of Patient Portals
In the modern world, all spheres of our life are striving for digitalization, and the field of medicine is no exception. Today, more and more IT specialists are paying attention to Patient Portals Development, which gives hope. The idea of these portals was created...
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...
Strategic Advice from Inner Matrix Systems on How to Manage Finances in a Relationship
Whether you have separate bank accounts, a single joint account, or a combination of the two—you and your partner should be on the same page about how you spend money. Joey Klein is the CEO of Inner Matrix Systems, a personal mastery training system for high achievers...
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Conservatives on Supreme Court, as Expected, End Nationwide Right to Abortion
The Supreme Court on Friday formally overturned its 49-year-old landmark Roe v. Wade decision, and with it ended a half-century of constitutionally guaranteed abortion rights in the United States. The 6-3 decision in the case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health...
UK sees another jump in Covid infections
He said: "I don't wear a face covering, but if there were circumstances where I felt it was a really closed environment, with very high crowding and very intense social interaction, then those are the situations where I might think 'should I or shouldn't I'? Article...
Seniors With Prediabetes Should Eat Better, Get Moving, but Not Fret Too Much About Diabetes
Almost half of older adults — more than 26 million people 65 and older — have prediabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. How concerned should they be? Not very, say some experts. Prediabetes — a term that refers to above-normal but not...
Health Care Startups Turn to ‘Coaches’ to Help Patients Cope and Monitor Treatment
In 2011, Sean Duffy and Adrian James were sitting in San Francisco’s Dolores Park debating what to call some workers at the company they founded, Omada Health. Omada, which launched that year, provides virtual treatment for chronic conditions. The company addresses...
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The FDA Goes After Nicotine
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on Acast. You can also listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. The FDA this week launched a crackdown on smoking and vaping — ordering the vaping device Juul to be...
Birmingham hospital faces criminal probe after death of vulnerable man
The inquest in April heard other patients had previously climbed the fence and, despite concerns by members of staff, no action was taken to improve security in and around the courtyard until another patient absconded two months after Mr Caseby's death. Article...
Tribes Show Little Interest in Offering Abortions on Reservations Despite Speculation They Could
Rachael Lorenzo started hearing the questions several weeks ago from strangers on Twitter and reporters seeking interviews: Since Native American tribes are sovereign nations, with their own laws, could they offer abortion services on Native land within states that...
Trump’s Legacy Looms Large as Colorado Aims to Close the Hispanic Insurance Gap
Armando Peniche Rosales has a crooked toe that for years has predicted the weather, growing sensitive when rain or cold is coming. “It never healed right,” said Peniche Rosales, who broke the middle toe on his left foot as a high school soccer player in Denver years...
Senate Deal Raises Hopes for a Reduction in Gun Suicides
A bipartisan U.S. Senate agreement negotiated after high-profile mass shootings in Texas, New York, and Oklahoma lacks gun access restrictions that advocates say are needed to prevent such attacks. But the deal’s focus on mental health has raised hopes — and doubts —...
New Weight Loss Treatment Is Marked by Heavy Marketing and Modest Results
First came the “edible billboard,” which appeared last year during the holidays in New York’s East Village loaded with cake treats. Then, in late January, came the national marketing campaign, with TV and digital media promoting the idea that trying to lose weight...
Boots criticised over pill boxes for the elderly
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has said in guidelines drawn up before the pandemic that there are benefits and disadvantages with use of the dosette boxes: "A multi-compartment compliance aid is one tool amongst many to help with medicines use but other...
Sobering Lessons in Untying the Knot of a Homeless Crisis
PORTLAND, Ore. — Michelle Farris never expected to become homeless, but here she was, sifting through garbage and towering piles of debris accumulated along a roadway on the outskirts of Northeast Portland. Farris, 51, has spent much of her adult life in Oregon, and...