HEALTH

Wayne State University President Kimberly Andrews Espy announced a strategic realignment of the university’s health sciences enterprise. It will enhance its focus on clinical relationships and affiliations, leverage new opportunities, and deepen Wayne State’s commitment to interprofessional education, interdisciplinary research and integrated service outreach. This leadership role will be crucial in developing and optimizing Wayne State's institutional relationships with health service delivery organizations.
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2 years ago Read more at Wayne State University

More than 27,00 workers - including community nurses, sexual health workers, physiotherapists, and other frontline workers at non-NHS organisations - will receive two one-off payments of at least £1,665 each. The department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) said the payments were being made to 'recognise the vital role of healthcare workers at social enterprises, charities, private providers and local authorities'
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2 years ago Read more at Sky News

lawmakers are holding a hearing to discuss private equity ownership in healthcare. This comes as Steward Health Care is in the middle of a financial crisis. Gov. Maura Healey has placed the blame on the company's management.
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2 years ago Read more at NBC Boston

Researchers at Penn State have unveiled a new technology poised to revolutionize the resilience of crops to drought, enhance their nitrogen absorption, and facilitate deeper carbon storage in the soil. Deeper plant roots are more drought tolerant and have an enhanced ability to take up nitrogen, which tends to move deep with water, but the problem has been how to measure root depth in the field.
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2 years ago Read more at Earth.com

New data available in the 2023 MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change for the first time focuses on Oceania as a whole. The authors are calling on governments and health authorities to develop evidence-based heat and health action plans after the report documents a 24% increase in the average number of hours a person exceeds the heat risk stress threshold annually across Australia.
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2 years ago Read more at Medical Xpress

Sri Lanka has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. In response, parliamentarians are working on different ways to tackle this issue. They are trying to find out why this is happening and what needs to change.
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2 years ago Read more at Global Issues

Dr. Wynne Armand is a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where she provides primary care; an assistant professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School; and associate director of the MGH Center for the Environment and... See Full Bio. No content on this site, regardless of date, should ever be used as a substitute for direct medical advice from your doctor or other qualified clinician.
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2 years ago Read more at Harvard Health

Baptist Health Lexington is hosting a Colon Cancer Awareness and Community Screening Health Fair in Lexington. “Get a colon cancer screening,” said Dr. Lee Hicks, medical director of medical oncology and infusion services. "It saves your life.” Baptist Health Kentucky wants to encourage early detection of colon cancer.
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2 years ago Read more at WKYT

The stigma associated with crying in public can be attributed to social and cultural norms that deem public displays of emotion to be “inappropriate”, say experts. There is a pressure to maintain a composed demeanour which is associated with resilience, as some may perceive emotions like sadness or anger to be ‘bad’ emotions that should be kept private.
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2 years ago Read more at TODAY

Discover the green stretch of your city or town. Start your week with a 20-minute walk or stroll here in the morning. The hidden gem of nature can be small stretches of green plants in your apartment or a road lined with trees.
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2 years ago Read more at Onmanorama