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The benchmark S & P/ASX 200 Index was up 0.1 per cent or 11.6 points at 7714.8, on track for its third session of gains. The Australian dollar held firm at US65.38, from US65 after the RBA kept the cash rate at 4.35 per cent, as expected. There’s an 80 per cent chance it could happen in August.
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2 years ago Read more at The Australian Financial Review

Louisiana's strict abortion ban has spillover effects, a report says. In the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, miscarriages are more common. Doctors specifically cited the abortion ban in refusing to see the patient. Those who fall afoul of the ban face 10 to 15 years in prison.
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2 years ago Read more at FRANCE 24 English

Annie Hartley is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science at Yale School of Medicine. She worked in Sierra Leone during the Ebola epidemic, studied at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and lived for several years in Switzerland. It is an exciting time for D-tree, as they have scaled a solution for women and child health across the archipelago of over 2 million residents.
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2 years ago Read more at Yale School of Medicine

Joel Bervell, 28, is a fourth-year medical student at Washington State University. He is one of the first black medical students at the medical college. From the moment students set foot in medical school, they are instilled with the concept of medical professionalism.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

HHIVE Lab opens a space of vertical collaboration between undergraduates, graduate students and faculty. They work to bridge humanities and STEM fields with the interdisciplinary study of health humanities. Kaleigh Sullivan is a LMC master's student researching substance abuse recovery.
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2 years ago Read more at The Daily Tar Heel

Unofficial results show Issue 26, a renewal tax levy for county health and human services programs, was well on its way to victory. All kinds of programs across the county rely on this money, including early childhood education programming, assistance for senior citizens, and mental health and addiction services. MetroHealth System, which calls itself “Cuyahoga County’s safety-net health system,” receives a small portion of its operating funds.
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2 years ago Read more at Signal Cleveland

Google Health introduced Med-PaLM 2, a large language model specifically fine-tuned for healthcare. This model has since become available to global customers and partners. Google Health’s models for healthcare incorporate new modalities, such as radiology images, lab results, genomics data and environmental context, the post said.
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2 years ago Read more at PYMNTS.com

A study aimed to examine oral hygiene self-care behavior among patients with self-reported mental health disorders was presented at the 102nd General Session of the IADR on March 13-16, 2024. The abstract, "Oral Health Behaviors Associated with Mental Health Disorders' was presented in conjunction with the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research. There were no significant differences in OHB, recare intervals or frequency
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2 years ago Read more at News-Medical.Net

Alexis Edwards of Virginia Commonwealth University, US, and colleagues report these findings in a new study published March 19th in the open access journal PLOS Medicine. The World Health Organization estimates harmful alcohol use accounts for 5.1% of the global burden of disease and injury worldwide, and results in three million deaths each year. Excessive alcohol consumption can also take an economic toll.
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2 years ago Read more at EurekAlert

a referendum appearing on voters ballots this primary election in McHenry County could change the funding source for the county's Mental Health Board and lead to a lower property tax levy. The change comes in the same year the county board approved a measure to increase the gasoline sales tax by 3.3 cents.
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2 years ago Read more at Patch