Tag: Health

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center health care workers begin a 5-day strike; accuse hospital of unfair labor practices

May 10, 2022 Sharika Soukup

LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Citing “unfair labor practices as well as employee and patient safety concerns, short-staffing and low wages,” members of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West started a planned weeklong strike Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The union, which has been bargaining with hospital management over a new labor contract…

Medical Supplies

Kim Kardashian’s crash diet could lead to further weight gain: health experts

May 9, 2022 Sharika Soukup

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Kim Kardashian received a lot of backlash after touting her 16-pound weight loss in 3 weeks to fit into her Marilyn Monroe-style dress she donned for the Met Gala in New York City this week. Health experts cautioned that such rapid weight loss from her reported crash…

Healthy Diet

‘It put everyone in a weird position’: Our waitress said a 20% service fee was added to cover benefits and health insurance, but that it was not a tip. Is this normal?

May 9, 2022 Sharika Soukup

I went to brunch last weekend and, when the server handed us the bill, she said a 20% service fee was added to cover her benefits and health insurance, but that it was not a tip. I am absolutely supportive of paying restaurant and waitstaff a living wage and they deserve to have benefits. But…

Treatment

Opinion | When Health Care Workers Are Protected, Patients Are, Too

May 9, 2022 Sharika Soukup

America was in a health care crisis before Covid, and the stresses of the pandemic have made it worse. Since the pandemic began, the health care work force — the country’s largest industry by employment — has shrunk by nearly 2 percent. That may seem like a small amount, but historically, the health care work…

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How parents can help kids who are struggling with mental health

May 8, 2022 Sharika Soukup

With one in five children and adolescents coping with a diagnosable mental health or learning disorder, the Child Mind Institute launched Monday its “Dare to Share” campaign, to encourage kids to talk about the issue of mental health. The campaign features celebrities, artists, athletes and role models who all share their personal stories, to de-stigmatize…

Healthy Parenting

Oregon, Kentucky dust off an Obama-era policy to expand health insurance

May 8, 2022 Sharika Soukup

The moves demonstrate a wide understanding that the Biden administration likely won’t be able to deliver on its promise to expand health care. And they come amid growing concern that the looming end of the Covid-19 public health emergency could result in millions of people being kicked off Medicaid and fear that Obamacare subsidies that…

Treatment

Improve your brain health through UAB’s new pilot brain health clinic – News

May 8, 2022 Sharika Soukup

With the number of Americans with dementia expected to increase dramatically, UAB’s new brain health clinics point the way to improving brain health over a lifespan. Ronald M. Lazar, Ph.D., professor of neurology and director of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain InstituteThe University of Alabama at Birmingham is now offering brain health checkups at two…

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How parents can help children who may be struggling with mental health: “Kids will always surprise you”

May 7, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Healthy Parenting