HEALTH

How springing forward to daylight saving time could affect your health, and how to prepare Meteorologist Dani Beckstrom takes a deeper look at the debate surrounding Daylight Saving Time in this Eyewitness News Special. Darker mornings and more evening light together knock your body clock out of whack. Studies have even found an uptick in heart attacks and strokes right after the March time change.
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2 years ago Read more at WABC-TV

In a DIY experiment using herself and colleagues as baselines, they found striking differences in brain activity between their urban brains with lifelong exposure to modernity. By 2020, she had founded a nonprofit called Sapien Labs, built a survey that reached 49,000 people across eight English-speaking countries. The findings weren’t great. The 2020 mental well-being score (which notably captured the pandemic onset) dropped 8 percent.
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2 years ago Read more at Vox.com

Uzbekistan’s state media recently reported baseless claims that "vaping contains thousands of chemicals... and is more harmful than smoking'1 following a ban on vaping products in neighboring Kazakhstan. That retrograde step, endangering the lives of Kazakhstan’s 3.2 million smokers, has been copied by Kyrgyzstan. The claims are also at odds with the approach of Sweden, which effectively beaten smoking by allowing smokers to switch to alternatives.
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

Josh Patner, 61, was accustomed to stepping over his mom whenever her mother-in-law would call. Mr. Patner's father, also a fan of the floor, took a 20-minute nap under the family’s piano each night after work. He enjoys floor time at his home in Brooklyn or even at his friend’s places.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

Mark Cuban, cofounder of Cost Plus Drug Company, urges business leaders to take a hard look at how their health dollars are spent. Cuban says he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on a drug used to treat a variety of conditions including plaque psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and ulcerative colitis. "If Congress fails to act this year, thousands of pharmacies could close," Cuban tells Fortune.
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2 years ago Read more at Fortune

The Clothesline Project is a program that began in 1990 from Cape Cod, MA, to address the issue of violence against women. About 1 in 3 women and 1 in 50 men have told their VA healthcare provider that they experienced MST. Male Veterans account for a third for MST survivors, due to the greater numbers of men in the military.
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2 years ago Read more at Veterans Affairs

White House officials, senior military and other national security leaders, retired military officers, and family members have all benefited. The Washington elite could jump the line when filling prescriptions, book appointments through special call centers, and receive choice parking spots and escorts at military hospitals and other facilities, including Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
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2 years ago Read more at Kaiser Health News

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas and the Texas Pediatric Society are partnering to enhance maternal and infant health in Texas. Through BCBSTX's Special Beginnings initiative, they will offer training and resources to primary care providers and pediatricians. In 2024, the program will focus on postpartum depression screenings and infant care after Neonatal Intensive Care Unit stays.
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2 years ago Read more at PR Newswire

Melinda Gates says using artificial intelligence in pregnancy could save women's lives. The Gates Foundation is working to increase access globally to AI-enabled ultrasound devices. Gates said the technology is one of several advancements that Gates sees as transformative. In the U.S., the state of maternal and infant health is dire.
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2 years ago Read more at ABC News

The state Department of Health and Human Services has been collecting comments for the past three weeks on its proposed blueprint for 2024 and 2025. It’s the Olmstead Plan in recognition of the 1999 U.S. Supreme Court decision that found it discriminating and unlawful to segregate people with disabilities without opportunities for work or play in their communities. The blueprint is an extension of the state’s ongoing effort to comply with that ruling.
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2 years ago Read more at North Carolina Health News