HEALTH

Pope Francis skipped the traditional Good Friday procession at Rome's Colosseum to protect his health, the Vatican said. The 87-year-old was expected to preside over the Way of the Cross procession, which re-enacts Christ's Passion and crucifixion, and composed the meditations that are read aloud at each station. But the Vatican announced that Francis was following the event from his home at the Vatican. Francis has been battling what he and
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Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Company has issued a voluntary product recall for three product lines of health supplements. As early as mid-January, the company had received reports - including from doctors - that people who had taken the supplements had been hospitalised with kidney problems. The company says the company should have acted sooner.
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2 years ago Read more at SBS News

Ballad Health is a 20-hospital system in the Tri-Cities region of Tennessee and Virginia. In the six years since lawmakers in both states waived anti-monopoly laws, ER visits for patients sick enough to be hospitalized grew more than three times as long and now far exceed the criteria set by state officials. The Tennessee health department has twice declined to comment to KFF Health News.
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2 years ago Read more at North Carolina Health News

The Hawaii Island Community Health Center is expanding its Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program to locations in Waikoloa and Kealakehe. The expansion builds on the WIC locations already established in Phoa, Ka. HICHC says the program aims at providing nutritious foods to supplement diets.
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2 years ago Read more at Big Island Video News

Maine is in its perennial gun regulation debate, with renewed energy after our Lewiston experience. In one week alone earlier this month, the Press Herald carried three contributions on mental health. The following day, Dana Williams suggested churches and other organizations focus, in part, on the establishment of “risk protection orders”
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Pope Francis pulled out of a Good Friday service at the last minute, the Vatican said. The 87-year-old pontiff's well-being has been watched closely following an operation on his abdomen last year. Pope Francis has had aides read out several speeches as he battles bouts of bronchitis.
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2 years ago Read more at WRAL News

Dr. Toni Golen is a physician specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. She completed her residency training at George Washington University Medical Center in 1995. Please note the date of last review or update on all articles.
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2 years ago Read more at Harvard Health

Health officers from all nine Bay Area counties and others are urging the public to be up to date on measles vaccinations. The message is particularly important for anyone traveling internationally out of the Bay Area's three major airports. Most cases reported this year have been among children 12 months and older who had not received the mesles mumps rubella vaccine.
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ADVERTISEMENT Italy’s industrial heartland has a long way to go to reach the EU’s goal of zero air pollution. The Po Valley where the couple live is one of the most polluted places in Europe in terms of air quality. Italy had 11,282 premature deaths due to nitrogen dioxide exposure in 2021, the highest in Europe.
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2 years ago Read more at Euronews

A recent study suggests daily avocado consumption may improve overall diet quality, but the effects on cardiometabolic health remain unclear. In the United States, many adults have poor diet quality and do not meet key dietary recommendations provided by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. This increases the risk for chronic health conditions that are among the leading causes of death.
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2 years ago Read more at Medical News Today