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Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory (NSMRL)’s Undersea Health Epidemiology Research Program (UHERP), presents a UHERP poster during the Military Health System Research Symposium. NSMRL, part of Navy Medicine’s Research & Development enterprise, is the only research team in the Navy that studies the health of women divers and submariners. The decision was controversial—it had been argued that women could not fit into the submarine environment.
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2 years ago Read more at DVIDS

Health minister Frank Vandenbroucke asked officials what challenges were unmanageable. The current changing demographic and increasing labour shortages pose a huge challenge to health systems, says medical care minister Pia Dijkstra.
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2 years ago Read more at Euronews

The 2024 report focuses on the connection between civic participation and health, which is called civic health. It highlights the importance of civic infrastructure and spaces to connect and be informed, focusing on access to local news, broadband internet, and public libraries. The report calls attention to structural barriers like policies, laws, and practices that can create obstacles to participation in voting and worker unionizing.
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2 years ago Read more at Conduit Street

Civitas Networks for Health today announced its 2024 Annual Conference will take place Tuesday, October 15 through Thursday, October 17, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan. The conference will focus on regional innovation and opportunities to create national impact in advancing health equity, public health improvements. In a more intimate setting than large industry conferences, attendees will have the chance to take part in: Engaging panel discussions, hands-on activities, and breakout sessions with industry experts.
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

In 2023, 422 cases were reported in the United States, the highest annual number of cases reported since 2014. A specific meningococcal strain, sequence type (ST) 1466, is responsible for most (101 of 148, 68%) serogroup Y cases with available sequence type data. Cases caused by this strain are disproportionately occurring in people ages 30–60 years (65%), Black or African American people (63%), and people with HIV (15%). In addition, most cases of
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2 years ago Read more at CDC Emergency Preparedness

The leading cause of personal bankruptcies in America? Debt to pay back medical bills. Experts say 3 million people have more than $10,000 in medical debt each. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison explained proposed legislation in Minnesota that aims to curb fallout that medical debt has on families.
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2 years ago Read more at Marketplace

Lifeforce is a membership-based health optimization platform that offers recommendations to improve your health based on the results. Lifescore is also determined by blood-based biomarkers, hormone and nutrient levels, metabolic and organ health, family health history, and self-reported data. The report also breaks down your quality of life (based on current health, not birthday)
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2 years ago Read more at Fortune

University of Michigan Health is expanding into Troy. The land will cost U of M $4.42 million. UM-Health plans to build a facility that will focus on advanced specialty and diagnostic services.
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2 years ago Read more at FOX 2 Detroit

Praveen Thadani, president/CEO of Priority Health, met with First Lady Jill Biden and other health care executives. The March 27 meeting, held at the White House, centered on the expansion of patient navigation services as part of President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative. Navigators guide cancer patients through the complexities of the health care system with the goal of improving outcomes and reducing health care costs.
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

The Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition took place March 14-23. It was the second time in three years that a team representing YIGH has won this prestigious event. This year, the case challenge was “Tackling India’s Twindemic: Accelerating integrated diabetes mellitus-tuberculosis care to end TB”.
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2 years ago Read more at Yale School of Medicine