Author: Sharika Soukup

Ready to reach out: Healing Hands Health Center celebrates new facility | Business

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Ready to reach out: Healing Hands Health Center celebrates new facility | Business

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Healing Hands Health Center has served thousands of uninsured patients throughout the region over the past 24 years. Now, the Bristol, Tennessee, nonprofit will continue its mission with a new education center and student dormitory. MARINA WATERS [email protected] “This space has allowed us to grow,” Healing Hands Executive Director Helen Scott told…

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Insurance

How Much Should I Eat? Quantity and Quality

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How Much Should I Eat? Quantity and Quality

Figuring out how much to eat while achieving or maintaining a healthy weight can be difficult. Getting the proper nutrients and eating the right amount for your weight and activity level can contribute to healthy aging. This article provides suggestions for how older adults can get the nutrients they need within a recommended daily number…

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Healthy Lifestyle

On Parenting: Many opportunities to find parenting connections are here | Community

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On Parenting: Many opportunities to find parenting connections are here | Community

Samantha Gray Contributed Photo It’s getting warmer, and we’re getting braver. We’re venturing out to explore and find connection. Kids are craving activity, and we’re craving it too. Something fresh, opportunity, and new starts go great with spring. Children’s and parenting events that have been canceled and postponed over the past two years are popping…

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Healthy Parenting

Joint Pain Improves With a Combo Vegan and Elimination Diet

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Joint Pain Improves With a Combo Vegan and Elimination Diet

Adopting a vegan diet, plus eliminating other trigger foods may help minimize joint pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a small study conducted by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, published in American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine in April 2022. A Unique Study Design Looked at Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms and Food While previous studies…

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Healthy Diet

Trahan announces $2 million to improve Lawrence Family Health Center | Merrimack Valley

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Trahan announces million to improve Lawrence Family Health Center | Merrimack Valley

LAWRENCE — Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) visited with state and community leaders Thursday morning at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center to announce $2 million in federal funding. The money, Trahan explained, will be used to expand primary health services offered to patients at the 700 Essex St. facility. The group toured the facility and…

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Insurance

$136 for a $2 bag of saline? Anthem, MaineHealth trade blame in billing disputes

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6 for a bag of saline? Anthem, MaineHealth trade blame in billing disputes

Anthem offices in South Portland. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer An IV bag of saline costs Maine Medical Center $2, but the Portland hospital has charged patients covered by Anthem insurance a total of $136 per bag and also tried to hide the bill, according to Anthem. Anthem, on the other hand, refuses to pay Maine…

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Medical Supplies