Black Health Matters

JANUARY 9, 2025

When it comes to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and social determinants of health (SDoH), it’s clear that these issues go hand in hand, especially for the Black community. Dr. Lim: Social determinants of health refer to the conditions in which individuals are born, grow, live, work, and age.

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Tulane Public Health Blog

APRIL 14, 2024

A growing number of people believe that healthcare organizations can improve the quality of care they provide and the health outcomes of their patients by adopting a patient-centered care model. Providing patient-centered care could include allowing a patient to choose when they have visitors at the hospital after a procedure.

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Gideon

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Or could your hospital be in the midst of a Candida Auris outbreak – the multi-drug resistant, severe-illness causing, and often-misidentified yeast? ” If you’re in Maryland, Sheryl Stuckey and her clinical microbiology lab at the Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, may be the help you need. Crazy, right?”

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Phreesia

JANUARY 22, 2025

Patient activation is the ability of individuals to manage their own health and actively participate in their healthcare. When patients are more activated, they tend to achieve better health outcomes and contribute to improved healthcare efficiency. Too often, healthcare fragmentation is a hinderance to patient activation.

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Phreesia

JANUARY 22, 2025

Patient activation is the ability of individuals to manage their own health and actively participate in their healthcare. When patients are more activated, they tend to achieve better health outcomes and contribute to improved healthcare efficiency. Too often, healthcare fragmentation is a hinderance to patient activation.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. healthcare “system.” Well, that moment has arrived (maybe). ” (Let’s just say here that the jury is still out. David Harlow.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. healthcare “system.” Well, that moment has arrived (maybe). ” (Let’s just say here that the jury is still out.

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Gideon

JUNE 17, 2021

Unfortunately, healthcare providers at the front of infectious disease management face a significantly higher risk of infection. The risk extends beyond healthcare workers to their families and communities. The hospital suspected Ebola only when he returned three days later with persistent fever, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.

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Sheffield DPH

DECEMBER 1, 2024

We have, bluntly, not transitioned the health care system from something about acute / episodic / largely single illness to chronic / ongoing / largely multiple illnesses all at once. Nor have we achieved the shift from hospital to community. Tinkering with the system as it is now, or something more fundamental.

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The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

By EMILY JOHNSON Imagine you’re an executive at a large health system in a major metropolitan area. The patient safety team moves quickly to investigate, and they discover that the patient was a young woman who had given birth to her first child just two weeks ago at one of your hospitals. Their family is furious.

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NC Health News

APRIL 4, 2025

He was diagnosed with severe Crohns disease Isaacs immune system had decided that his own intestines were an enemy. Isaacs immune system was on high alert and could continue to attack his intestines. She spent hours on the phone between the company, pharmacy and the physician. Hes now 10 years old and back to playing soccer, she said.

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Exploring Health

MARCH 10, 2025

But the reality is that ovaries are beneficial for overall systemic health.” Luries Childrens Hospital and assistant professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. It is a failure of our healthcare system, says Laronda. ” Neither menopause nor female aging is necessarily a disease.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 7, 2025

By Emily Vespa and Michelle Crouch Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger Faced with a growing health care worker shortage and provider burnout , some North Carolina health care leaders have said there is great promise in artificial intelligence systems. If it doesnt know an answer, it directs patients to call the practice triage line.

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Frontiers

JUNE 25, 2021

Jo Wilmshurst is the Head of Pediatric Neurology at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town , the largest pediatric hospital in sub-Saharan Africa. Following a medical degree at Guy’s Hospital in London, Prof. The final levelling experience she discussed was the language barrier in the Red Cross Hospital.

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Mercola

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The terms "heart attack" and "cardiac arrest" are often used interchangeably, but they refer to two distinct cardiovascular events that have significantly different causes and outcomes. 2 In comparison, more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur annually in the U.S. 1 According to the U.S. accounting for 70% of all cases.

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Maternal Health Task Force

DECEMBER 5, 2021

It has disrupted health systems and health delivery. In her nearly 18 years working for the NJDOH, Hamarman has advocated for increased healthcare provider education about STDs in addition to working with nearly 85 local health clinics across the state. A doctor counsels a pregnant patient.

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Mercola

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Methylene blue remains an important part of the strategy’s used in hospitals worldwide due to its unique ability to counteract mitochondrial metabolic poisons. Even in healthy individuals, low doses can improve the body's energy production systems. Crawford states, "It does have an influence on the central nervous system.

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Mercola

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Inguinal hernias are one of the most common surgical conditions encountered in clinical practice, representing a significant healthcare burden worldwide. As explained by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital: 2 "Approximately 80% to 90% of inguinal hernias appear in boys. The affected area may appear warm, tender, or discolored. 5 to 2.1%.

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Better Health For All

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Years of systemic health inequalities and intersectional disadvantage are revealing themselves in these shocking numbers. In hospital trusts across the country, many teams have worked tirelessly to achieve huge progress on these elements in a short space of time and this is to be applauded.

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Gideon

APRIL 7, 2021

Occasionally, systemic infection occurs involving such sites as the liver, brain, endocardium, and bones (5). Occupational Infections Acquired Via Care of Patients Caring for patients while working in hospitals, ambulatory clinics, diagnostic laboratories, nursing homes, and the home carries an increased risk for several infectious diseases.

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Exploring Health

JANUARY 14, 2025

Irvings death is not an isolated tragedy but, rather, a reflection of the racial disparities that persist in the American healthcare system. This disparity is not rooted in biological differences, says the Journal of Women’s Health , but instead in racial biases within Americas healthcare system.

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The Health Care Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

But what about health care vs. healthcare? Debating Evolution Back in 2012, after I dived into the health care vs. healthcare debate for The Health Care Blog , my friend and colleague, the determinedly data-driven David Muhlestein, PhD, JD, accused me of ignoring language evolution by insisting on the two words usage.

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Gideon

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Incidence Incidence refers to the probability of a disease occurring in a given population in a specific time period. Seroprevalence Seroprevalence refers to the number of people in a population who test positive antibodies to a pathogen (infectious virus or bacteria).

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Gideon

MARCH 24, 2021

Tuberculosis can also cause extrapulmonary disease in sites including the bone, joints, muscles, central nervous system, gastrointestinal system, hepatobiliary system, genitourinary system, eyes, breasts, and skin. References (1) M. Rowe and J. 317-326, 2008.

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Gideon

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Vaccines work by stimulating the body’s immune system to produce antibodies against a pathogen or infection. Clinicians typically classify pneumonia into two main categories: community acquired pneumonia (CAP) and healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP). References: [1] “ Pneumonia “, Who.int , 2020.

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Managed Care Matters

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The American Hospital Association wants Trump to exempt taxes on medical devices, drugs, su pplies, and drug precursors. Nowhere in the letter does the AHA’s president refer to the additional cost of the tariffs which WILL be passed on to employers and individual patients. That’s scary enough. The US buys about $2.3

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Gideon

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Spores of the bacterium, Clostridium tetani , enter our bodies and spread all over the nerves in the central nervous system. The incubation period varies based on how far the injury site is from the central nervous system. Tetanus is considered a medical emergency, and hospital care is required. Is There a Cure for It?

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Exploring Health

MARCH 25, 2025

This theory is gaining traction as the relationship between the human microbiome and the immune system becomes better understood. Could exposing ourselves to pathogens by reducing hygiene improve the composition of our microbiomes and, therefore, strengthen our immune systems defenses?

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HEALTHBEAT

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

While this disparity can change slightly depending on when its measured and with what reference point , nationally, the disparity is lower, at about three times more likely, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Bevorlin Garcia Barrios, 24, arrived at the hospital with nausea and stomach pain.

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 26, 2024

The newly approved Covid vaccines should provide “great coverage” for current versions of the virus and will be effective in preventing serious hospitalizations and death, Emory University epidemiologist Jodie Guest said. The shots will cost around $201.99 for uninsured patients paying out of pocket at CVS, spokesperson Amy Thibault said.

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HEALTHBEAT

APRIL 3, 2025

Helen Haskells 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didnt realize he was in shock. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. Without AHRQ, wed be doing even worse.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Those hospitalized are due to troubled breathing , not quarantining like he incorrectly said. None of the hospitalized cases are vaccinated. For reference, the last major U.S. Does their immune system need time to recover from those illnesses before getting a vaccine? West Texas is now on the list. Which he hasn’t.)

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