OKLAHOMA CITY – This New Year, Shape Your Future, a program of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, encourages Oklahomans to build healthy habits through small changes in everyday routines. Instead of setting resolutions without a plan to achieve them, create and maintain healthy lifestyles by changing one habit at a time. “Unrealistic New Year’s goals…
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The Build Back Better Act, H.R. 5376, (BBBA), adopted by the House of Representatives on November 19, 2021 with the support of President Biden, includes a broad package of health, social, climate change and revenue provisions. The total package includes $1.7 trillion in spending, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which also projects that…
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Public COVID-19 vaccination clinics in partnership with Whittier Street Health Center and BPHC to be held as part of First Night festivities Mayor Michelle Wu joined City leadership to share the city’s preparations for First Night, Boston’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration, and announced a COVID-19 vaccine and booster clinic in partnership with Whittier St….
An emergency medicine physicians group has sued Envision Healthcare, the giant health care services company, alleging that it violated California laws barring corporations from practicing medicine when it took over staffing of the emergency department at Placentia-Linda Hospital in Placentia, California, in August. The lawsuit was filed by the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group, a…
Meteorologists reported a new weather phenomenon called “atmospheric lakes” drifting slowly over the western Indian Ocean and bringing water to dry lowlands along East Africa’s coastline. Similar to the better-known streams of humid, rainy air called atmospheric rivers that deliver large amounts of rainfall, the researchers from the University of Miami say the newly discovered…
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Cardiometabolic disease, defined as cardiovascular disease (CVD) or type 2 diabetes (T2D), is the primary comorbidity in patients with cancer. But new research is linking healthy lifestyle with both the prevention of new cancer and the reduced risk for cardiometabolic disease among those with previous cancer. The study, conducted by Zhi Cao, MSc, from the…
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Kyle Robertson, Cerebral cofounder and CEO. Cerebral The company, which raised $300 million at a $4.8 billion valuation this month, changed the status of more than 200 employees from salaried to hourly workers in August and made their health insurance contingent on quotas in 2022. In October, online mental health startup Cerebral named Olympic gymnast…
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Dear Readers, The New Year is upon us, and along with it come those resolutions. There is room for improvement in all our lives, right? As many as 70% of Americans will resolve to eat healthier in 2022. Others will set a goal to exercise regularly. And, of course, many will seek to…
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Newly public data show that hospital prices vary in unpredictable ways that seem out of patients’ control. A Wall Street Journal analysis has identified a kind of health coverage that leaves patients with especially high bills. Hospitals’ highest rates often aren’t for a specific insurance plan, but rather a type of healthcare provider network that…
Health-care workers are working extra shifts at COVID-19 clinics, or administering vaccines in their off hours, and they say it’s important people still get the care they need as the pandemic drags through a second straight holiday season. Dr. Danny Chapman, a family doctor from Kanata, has chosen to work during the holidays at the Kids…
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