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Older and Better: 6 Tips For Authentic Aging

Black Health Matters

Last year, six months before my 60th birthday, I started asking myself what it meant to age through a series of journal entries that offered several insights. In one journal entry, I wrote, Aging has always been something I celebrated and embraced. Maya Angelou, has also helped me embrace aging: “I love living.

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NC House bill would further shorten practice period for teen drivers

NC Health News

The lower crash rates held steady until 2021, during the pandemic, when the lawmakers reduced that required practice period, researchers with the Highway Safety Research Center at UNC Chapel Hill told NC Health News. Level 1 Limited learners permit for teens who are at least 15 years old but under age 18.

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As AI advances in NC health care systems, state leaders call for oversight

NC Health News

By Emily Vespa Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger As North Carolinas health care systems increasingly expand their use of artificial intelligence, state leaders say they want to pioneer policy to regulate the rapidly evolving technology. We are looking at an aging population and an overburdened workforce thats only going to get worse.

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The Future of AI in Healthcare

Exploring Health

The doctor at the hospital performed an ultrasound, which showed that the fetus was much smaller than expected for its age. Ellen was connected to a new fetal monitoring software that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to detect abnormalities in fetal health rate. Many individuals, however, remain skeptical of its use.

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Toxic Legacy — How Lead Exposure Silently Fueled America's Mental Health Crisis

Mercola

Lead exposure has been silently fueling a mental health crisis in the United States. This well-documented neurotoxin, once widespread due to industrial practices, continues to affect millions, undermining cognitive and behavioral development from childhood into adulthood. For every 5 g/dL increase in childhood BLLs, there was a 1.34-point

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Scathing audit for N.C. oversight of nursing homes

NC Health News

The Office of the State Auditor released its audit of the Department of Health and Human Services oversight of nursing homes, accusing the department of consistently failing to conduct timely inspections and investigations of nursing homes across the state. oversight of nursing homes appeared first on North Carolina Health News.

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The Clinical Enterprise is the Beating Heart of Health Systems

The Health Care Blog

By JEFF GOLDMSITH As health systems struggle to emerge from the post-COVID financial crisis, the importance of the clinical enterprise to these systems has dramatically increased. This commitment has a direct financial consequence for health systems. A roll-up is not a credible foundation for a system, but merely a holding action.