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Childhood immunisation rates are stuck on about 82 percent for years. It has resulted in a vaccination rate so low in children under 8. Even then, hundreds of children were hospitalised.
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1 year ago Read more at RNZ

Steward Health Care announced in late February that it had secured a robust financing agreement that will provide a $150 million cash infusion to provide additional liquidity. With that deadline on Tuesday, Steward hospital workers say they have received little information about what's going to happen to the hospitals and their jobs. Gov. Maura Healey and other elected officials have called for Steward operators to pull out of the state.
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1 year ago Read more at NBC Boston

The polygenic risk score (PRS) combines multiple genetic variants to arrive at a person's overall genetic predisposition to a longer or shorter lifespan. And lifestyle—tobacco use, alcohol consumption, diet quality, sleep quota and physical activity levels—is a key factor. The researchers drew on a total of 353,742 adults recruited to the UK Biobank between 2006 and 2010.
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1 year ago Read more at Medical Xpress

In the first study of its kind, experts explored how the odds of survival can be improved through exercise, a healthy diet, getting enough sleep and not smoking, despite the huge influence of genetics. Participants with high genetic risk could prolong approximately 5.22 years of life expectancy at age 40 with a favourable lifestyle.
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1 year ago Read more at The Independent

West Virginia's and North Carolina's refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-6 in the case involving coverage of gender-affirming care by North Carolina’s state employee health plan. West Virginia’s policy bars treatment or studies “leading to or in connection with sex changes or modifications and related care,"
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1 year ago Read more at ABC News

Fraser Health Pain and Opioid Stewardship app is first in British Columbia to introduce free and accessible pain management resources and opioid prescribing knowledge through web and mobile platforms. Prescribers can access the app and find information on a medication's effectiveness in managing pain. A key feature is the pain management guidance section, which compiles evidence-based recommendations and guidelines.
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1 year ago Read more at Fraser Health Authority

On Monday, a groundbreaking took place in Wiggins for the city’s new Coastal Family Health Center and Pharmacy site. The $1.8 million project has been in the works for over six years in Stone County.
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1 year ago Read more at WLOX

Since May is Mental Health Awareness Month, Youth Villages has created a new series called “How Are You Feeling” to provide expertise from their many experts. For the first week of May, the focus is on anxiety among children and how they may develop it around new activities during the summer, as well as a break in their regular routine outside of school. Some parents may have the question of, “How can I navigate this?” Dr. Alex Burton said.
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1 year ago Read more at WTOK

Victoria Atkins told those injured after receiving the vaccine that she did not have time to meet them because of her “already hectic parliamentary and diary commitments” AstraZeneca is being sued in a class action by 51 alleged victims of the vaccine, developed in conjunction with the University of Oxford and rolled out in 2021.
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1 year ago Read more at The Telegraph

Jefferies Healthcare Services Equity Research Analyst Brian Tanquilut and Grey Ghost Advisors Private Equity Investor Meghan Fitzgerald join Market Domination to discuss how investors should position themselves in this market.
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1 year ago Read more at Yahoo Finance