Mercola

MARCH 6, 2025

When it comes to diagnosing obesity, BMI (body mass index) has been the primary tool used by health care professionals. However, it has well-known flaws, such as failing to measure fat distribution and overall metabolic health. 1 The shortcomings of BMI The researchers point out that that BMI alone is a poor predictor of health.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

The first RFI to issue was the one seeking input on the regulations implementing the Stark law and the federal anti-kickback statute (See: Stark and AKS RFI and public comments ). A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color. We can all agree on that.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

The first RFI to issue was the one seeking input on the regulations implementing the Stark law and the federal anti-kickback statute (See: Stark and AKS RFI and public comments ). A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color. We can all agree on that.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Call for New AMCHP Association Committee Members is Open Through November 8 Are you interested in effecting meaningful change nationally and have your voice heard on maternal and child health (MCH) matters? MacQueen Lecture Award : For innovation in the field of maternal and child health.

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NC Health News

MARCH 24, 2025

Kristin Goforth and Lauren Cox, twin sisters aged 49, moved their father into a Piedmont Triad-area assisted living facility on March 13, 2021. Rick Goforth, then 75, was in good health; he was an avid walker who enjoyed being outside. We over-built [the industry], we under-supported , and then we expected a lot, she said.

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NC Health News

MARCH 7, 2025

Credit: Courtesy of TambraPlace Sowing seeds of success TambraPlace created its first home for youth in 2021 to serve young women ages 18-24 who are homeless, unaccompanied or considered at-risk. Six young men ranging in age from 18-20 have lived at Stone House. Two reunited with family members and four remain, Chamberlain said.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As state and local governments begin spending billions in opioid settlement funds , one of the loudest and most frequent questions from the public has been: Where are the dollars going? And several just squeaked by, meeting the letter of the law but falling far short of communicating to the public in a clear and meaningful manner.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In an interview, Morales Blanco, the daughter of a fisherman, details her fight to stop fracking in Puerto Wilches and nationwide, her struggles with mental health following years of persistent threats and violence, and the lack of recognition and institutional support available to environmental leaders. Public safety was nonexistent.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. It was the latest in a drumbeat of health issues that she traces to the first months of 2020, when dozens of veterans died at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, in one of the country’s deadliest Covid-19 outbreaks at a long-term nursing facility.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 24, 2025

By Emily Vespa For more than four months, 32-year-old Jackson Hedgepeth has lived in a small room at Atrium Health Union hospital in Monroe, waiting for help. Iverson Riddle, a state-operated center that provides services for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities (often referred to as I/DD) for more than a year.

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Better Health For All

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These forms of abuse include domestic homicide, domestic abuse, sexual assault, abuse experienced as a child, female genital mutilation (FGM), forced marriage and harassment in work and public life, [3] and manifest in many ways both globally and in the UK. million adults in England and Wales. [6] Male violence against women is preventable.

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Mercola

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

DMSO is a phenomenally effective medicine that can treat a wide variety of common, debilitating, or incurable conditions, which allowed it to rapidly take the country by storm (as both the public and the medical community saw its results and rapidly embraced it). 7 Being able to increase parasympathetic activity.

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Mercola

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

billion dollar global market 2 ) and why almost all of their appalling side effects have been hidden from the public. Since funnels gradually shrink as you go further down them, similar to how fewer customers will buy a product as it becomes more expensive, this method is often referred to as a sales funnel. with anxiety and 32.8%

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Gideon

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Typhoid fever refers to the disease caused by Salmonella typhi ( Salmonella enterica subsp. Both typhoid fever and its close relative paratyphoid fever are sometimes referred to as “enteric fever.” In some outbreaks, typhoid has primarily affected school-aged children, with cases in infants and toddlers being quite rare.

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HEALTHBEAT

MARCH 7, 2025

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free New York City newsletter here. With measles cases on the rise in the United States, public health experts in New York are encouraging vaccination against the highly contagious virus. Both cases involved unvaccinated infants, who have since recovered.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

KFF Health News and KCUR are following the stories of people injured during the Feb. Cabrera remembers being moved out of the emergency room at University Health to make room for 12 people who came in from the shooting at the rally, including eight with gunshot wounds. 14 mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl celebration.

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HEALTHBEAT

APRIL 3, 2025

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free Atlanta newsletter here. The sudden termination of a grant from the National Institutes of Health forced Emory University professor Whitney Wharton to take down websites and cancel appointments for people at risk for Alzheimers disease contributing to her study.

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The Hill

JANUARY 29, 2025

Presidents Trumps pick for Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, during a contentious confirmation hearing , hitting the former Democrat and independent presidential candidate on past statements supporting abortion access and the belief that chemicals in drinking water could be making more children gay or transgender. Kennedy Jr.,

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NC Health News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Anne Blythe As executive orders and new policy directives come out of the White House at a dizzying pace, many health care workers have found themselves in a quandary. Now many doctors and other health care providers are uncertain what to do if immigration officers, often referred to as ICE, show up in their waiting rooms and clinics.

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