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Tulsa Health Department Announces Partnership with Crossover Community Impact

January 27, 2022 Sharika Soukup

TULSA, OK – [January 21, 2022] – The Tulsa Health Department announces the upcoming expansion of medical services available at the department’s North Regional Health and Wellness Center, 5635 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., with a new partnership with Crossover Community Impact. Crossover Health Services, a division of Crossover Community Impact, will occupy the…

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Three Forces Driving The Consumerization Of Healthcare

January 27, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Heather Fernandez is the CEO and co-founder of Solv, an app that shifts the power to patients by delivering everyday healthcare on demand. getty Twenty-four days. According to a nationwide survey conducted in 2017, that was the average wait time for a doctor appointment across 15 major American cities. In a world where we can hail…

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Martha Stewart Launches New CBD Cream for Muscle Pain

January 27, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Martha Stewart, 80, just launched an extension to her eponymous line of CBD products. One of the brand’s most exciting additions is the Super Strength CBD cream, which has been shown to relieve muscle pain. Martha Stewart CBD initially launched in 2020 with oil tinctures and gummies. Martha Stewart is really just out here making…

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Scientist Uses Ice To Boil Water, Makes Discovery That Adds To 200 Year-Old Principle

January 27, 2022 Sharika Soukup

New Delhi: Can you imagine ice being used to boil water? Well, a researcher from Virginia Tech, a research university in Virginia, United States, has just done that. Montaba Edalatpour, a graduate fellow, along with Jonathan Boreyko, Associate Professor at Virginia Tech, has made a discovery about the properties of water that could add to a phenomenon…

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Obamacare enrollment hits record high after Biden makes changes

January 26, 2022 Sharika Soukup

What a difference a new president makes. Enrollment in Obamacare health insurance plans has hit a record high this season, a clear, if rare, policy victory for President Joe Biden in his first full year in office. The big surge came amid boosted financial assistance for enrollments, a wider window for sign-ups, the continuing health…

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Ledge Light Health District Offers Free COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic in Groton

January 26, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Photo by CDC on Unsplash. GROTON/LYME/OLD LYME — Ledge Light Health District (LLHD) will host a COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Thursday, Jan. 27, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Groton Municipal Building (295 Meridian Street). The Moderna vaccine and a limited supply of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine will be available for anyone who…

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I Write About America’s Absurd Health Care System. Then I Got Caught Up in It.

January 26, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Bram Sable-Smith I got a hurried voicemail from my pharmacist in Wisconsin the day before Thanksgiving letting me know my insurance was refusing to cover my insulin. I had enough of the hormone that keeps me alive to last 17 days. In my 10 years living with Type 1 diabetes, I’ve never really struggled to…

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Can CBD really prevent COVID-19 infection? Scientists hope to find out.

January 26, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Cannabidiol (CBD), an active ingredient in cannabis, might help block infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. But don’t go drop a bunch of cash on CBD oils at your local dispensary: The possible effect still needs to be tested in humans. (And definitely don’t smoke marijuana to prevent coronavirus infection.) Even if the findings…

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