HEALTH

Margaret F. Ingram, 92, died Feb. 17 at Oak Crest, a senior living community in Parkville, Baltimore County. The former Woodlawn resident was the daughter of Warren Fischer and Loretta M. Reaney. She grew up on West Cross Street in Pigtown and attended public schools.
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2 years ago Read more at Baltimore Sun

American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends the annual time change be abolished in favor of a permanent standard time. The organization outlined numerous health risks associated with Daylight Saving Time, including increased traffic fatalities in the first few days following the time change and misalignment with our bodies’ circadian biology.
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2 years ago Read more at Fortune

Inability to produce enough insulin or use it effectively often results in type 2 diabetes (T2D), a chronic disease affecting hundreds of millions of people around the globe. To counteract adverse consequences, it is crucial that patients have good knowledge about the day-to-day management of the disease. A team of researchers in Portugal has now assessed how many patients have this crucial knowledge.
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2 years ago Read more at News-Medical.Net

Wind gusts on Monday become widespread out of the west or northwest at 30 to 35 mph. * WHERE...Portions of northern New York and central, northwest and southern Vermont. * IMPACTS...Isolated to scattered power outages could occur. Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous travel conditions are most likely Sunday morning and Monday morning.
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2 years ago Read more at Plattsburgh Press Republican

Families were hard at work building heart models during the Feb. 29 PSRC Heart STEAM Family Night event. Families followed the lead of PSRC Science Supervisor Susan Miller-Hendrix. The models were made from plastic bottles, straws and modeling clay.
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2 years ago Read more at The Robesonian

VA said the PACT Act may represent the largest expansion of healthcare benefits in VA history. Veterans who were originally phased into enrollment over the next eight years are now eligible. This law expands VA health care and benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange and other toxic substances. It includes all vets who served in Vietnam War, Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan or any combat zone after 9/11.
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2 years ago Read more at KGAN TV

In the past two years, the CFPB has penalized medical debt collectors, issued stern warnings to health care providers and lenders that target patients. The agency’s turn toward medical debt has stirred opposition from collection industry officials, who say the agency's efforts are misguided. In the last year, the agency shut down an Indiana company for pursuing patients without ensuring the debts were accurate.
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2 years ago Read more at North Carolina Health News

The 25th Amendment has never been invoked in reality, but it remains a crucial tool for addressing situations where a president is either unwilling or unable to confront their disability. In 1921, Roosevelt was able to deceive the public into believing that he was fit for the presidency. By 1931, Roosevelt’s personal physician, Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, insisted that the president had been completely fine. He was also prone to severe depression, described in his time as bouts of
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2 years ago Read more at The Indian Express

Senate Bill 24 (SB 24) would amend current health curriculum to include mental health education in all K-12 curriculums. The bill received push-back from four Republicans: Sens. Shelley Hughes, James Kaufman, Jesse Bjorkman and Mike Shower. Anchorage School District leaders praised the bill.
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2 years ago Read more at Alaska's News Source

German Traveling Fellows tour includes stops at top amputation research and clinical centers across the United States. They include a tour of multiple laboratories within the hospital including prosthetics and clinical motion analysis, adaptive technologies, and RECOVER labs. The German fellow team also to include Lorena Klingebiel, CPO & MA, orthopedic engineer, Ottobock Duderstadt and Victor Alexander Hoursch, MD, Dept. for Trauma Surgery, Hannover Medical School.
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2 years ago Read more at Veterans Affairs