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Sasha Merasty aims to advocate for Indigenous equity and equality in the Canadian health-care system. My personal experiences with family members inspired me to understand diseases and their treatments because I wanted to be helpful to my family. Now, I want to be a person who can explain health care treatments and options for other people. Getting connected with an academic advisor and career services is also important.
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2 years ago Read more at USask News

The move is part of the upcoming provincial budget to be announced on Tuesday, and will include plastic and digital options to replace the existing paper health card. Work on the design of the new card will begin this year. Kinew says his own health card is in bad shape. You can't really see the Manitoba logo.
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2 years ago Read more at CBC.ca

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released the draft Wednesday. ONC said it collaborated on the plan with 25 federal agencies that interact with health IT through purchasing, developing and regulating. The federal government plans to encourage “education, outreach and transparency” about artificial intelligence use.
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2 years ago Read more at FedScoop

The Host Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” In its first abortion case since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Supreme Court looked unlikely to uphold an appeals court ruling that would dramatically restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone. Meanwhile, Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, continue to take aim at popular health programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act on the
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2 years ago Read more at Kaiser Health News

Public Services International (PSI) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN) raise the alarm, based on the concerns of health and care professionals and workers worldwide at the lack of commitment by Member States to recognize, value and protect the healthcare workforce in the Pandemic Agreement. Poorly compensated, unprotected, demoralized, depressed and completely exhausted, our members. This same spirit inspired the 2nd Special Session of the World Health Assembly’s resolution for the formulation of a pandemic accord
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2 years ago Read more at Public Services International

Chronic diseases have emerged as major public health challenges in modern society [26, 27]. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted using a large random sample to investigate the self-reported prevalence of common chronic diseases among adults in Ganzhou, a city in southern China. This data is even higher than other studies reporting the prevalence of chronic diseases in the middle-aged and elderly (44.27%) Most residents reported that their health was relatively good (44.6%) or moderate (42.1%)
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2 years ago Read more at BMC Public Health

NASA Flight Engineer Tracy C. Dyson worked in the Columbus laboratory module swapping hardware for a new experiment seeking to demonstrate 3D printing of antimicrobial parts in space. The investigation named Copper Anti-Microbial Prints, or CAMP, is examining the effectiveness of producing medical devices on-demand and how microgravity affect their anti-microbial properties. DNA Nano Therapeutics-Demo 2 is exploring space-manufactured DNA nanomaterials in order to produce therapeutics that may benefit travelers in space and
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2 years ago Read more at NASA Blogs

UNC Health signed a long-term agreement with UnitedHealthcare. The deal covers all patients under United's commercial, Individual Exchange and Medicare Advantage plans. It will keep thousands of North Carolina patients in network.
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2 years ago Read more at WRAL News

Ryan Corbett, 40, has been imprisoned without charge by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers since August 2022. The family, who live in New York, said Ryan told them on the call that he suffered from "high fevers last week that went undiagnosed. Anna and her three children have had just five short phone calls from Ryan, totalling 44 minutes, since he was detained in Afghanistan by the Taliban.
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2 years ago Read more at CBS News

One in five adults in the U.S. lives with a mental illness, and one adult will commit suicide every 11 minutes, Dr. Tambetta Ojong said. She was involved with the N.C. Medical Society and later did a MEDTALK on the role of mentorship, personal traits and practices as physicians transition into attending roles. "We are, first and foremost, human, and I think kind of recognizing that can help you go a long way"
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2 years ago Read more at Campbell University News