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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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Biden Administration Sets Higher Staffing Mandates. Most Nursing Homes Don’t Meet Them.
The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses and aides — while giving them years to do so. The new rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are the most substantial changes...
Rural Jails Turn to Community Health Workers To Help the Newly Released Succeed
MANTI, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up. He blames his addiction. He started using in middle school, and by...
Why are we so ill? The working-age health crisis
Getty ImagesBy Nick TriggleHealth correspondent@nicktriggleThere is, it seems, an epidemic of illness among the working-age population. This week the Office for National Statistics once again warned about the number of people being driven out of the jobs market...
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...