HEALTH

Becky Dirks, 47, has been on the job one month working out of her office at UPH-M’s hospital and offices at 55 UnityPoint Way. There is competition from McFarland Clinic, which recently built a new facility on East Merle Hibbs Boulevard. Primary Health Care on Iowa Avenue West offers family practice options and pediatrics.
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2 years ago Read more at Marshalltown Times Republican

In many areas of health, women receive worse care, and suffer worse outcomes, than men. In moments of acute pain, women are less likely to be given painkillers. Seeing this health gap is one thing. Knowing what causes it is another—as only then can it be fixed.
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2 years ago Read more at WIRED

Women with both metabolic syndrome and high-risk strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) are at a 2.6 times higher risk for mortality than women without either condition. This suggests a need to look at chronic disease comorbidity when it comes to HPV-related cancers. The study was obtained by the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey with a final sample of 5,101 individuals.
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2 years ago Read more at News-Medical.Net

Shawnee County residents are encouraged to take part in the Community Health Needs Assessment. The CHNA is conducted every three years to assess public health issues. You can take it here, or in Spanish here.
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2 years ago Read more at WIBW

The health care sector had 49,030 job openings as of January 2024, according to the state's Labor and Workforce Development Office. No single job needs more qualified applicants than registered nurses. The administration is taking a cross-agency approach, but it may not be robust enough to solve the problem in the short term.
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2 years ago Read more at NBC Boston

Over 1,000 men and women dressed in a sea of red took over the Dallas Omni Hotel on Friday, championing the Go Red for Women Movement. The movement increases awareness of cardiovascular disease in women and works to close care disparities. Participants participated in free health assessments, lessons in Hands-Only CPR, received health education, and even spent some time with puppy service dogs in training.
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2 years ago Read more at NBC DFW

Future of Health is already here, with winners and losers emerging. Organization leaders should rethink their business models and capital investment strategies. Consider how you want to make an impact, where you expect to invest, and whom you can partner with.
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2 years ago Read more at Deloitte

Globally, women spend 25 per cent more of their lives in debilitating health than men do, a result of gender inequality in health research, data collection, health-care delivery and investment. In Nigeria, COVID-19 lockdowns brought a harsh realization for Ms. Uzoma. She founded Medvax Health, Nigeria’s first women-centric e-pharmacy.
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2 years ago Read more at Ventures Africa

Governor Gavin Newsom’s $6.4 billion mental health bond measure is nail-bitingly close with 50.1% of voters in favor and 49.9% opposed. At that time, there were approximately 13,000 votes, in a state with 22 million registered voters, standing in between the proposition passing and failing. The proposition is one of the only remaining too-close-to-call races relevant to Los Angeles County voters.
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2 years ago Read more at LA Daily News

Just last month a case was confirmed close to Kentucky, in Ohio. The state’s health department put a warning out that people may have been exposed at the Cincinnati–Northern Kentucky Airport. In 2000, measles was declared eliminated in the U.S.
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2 years ago Read more at WKYT