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The Youth Wellness Initiative (YWI) is a local student-led project working to “better understand the mental health needs of high school youth across the region”. The five-episode series, called “Re:Frame of Mind,” is now live and available for listening on the IPR website, as well as on Spotify, Apple Podcasts.
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2 years ago Read more at Traverse City Ticker

Active Minds met with local organizations and educators to highlight a free mental health tool. The program provides school-age kids with a new tool to deal with anxiety and emotions. Some educators say the more mental health resources in the classroom, the better.
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2 years ago Read more at WCNC.com

Nevada Medicaid pays out reimbursements to health care providers when they serve low-income Nevadans. But those providers say they’re either denied altogether or are only partially approved. They say this has caused them to lose money while continuing to provide medical care. In an attempt to get more certainty of payment, Tracey Richards says she has considered leaving the industry altogether.
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2 years ago Read more at Fox 5 Las Vegas

Georgetown Faces is a cross-campus partnership that trains law, medical and nursing students on how to use law as a tool to reduce health disparities for marginalized communities. Vicki Girard co-founded the Health Justice Alliance in 2016, a collaboration between the medical and law centers. She had discovered the medical-legal partnership model years earlier, which integrates lawyers into healthcare teams.
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2 years ago Read more at Georgetown University

Beginning Tuesday, March 12, the Michigan City group will meet at 2 p.m. Central on the second Tuesday of each month in the Mother Maria Theresia Conference Room at Franciscan Health Michigan City. Attendees can park in the main entrance parking lot and enter through Entrance A. The next session is set for April 3.
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2 years ago Read more at Valpo.Life

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers released the following statement regarding President Biden’s comments on health care price transparency. House passed the overwhelmingly bipartisan Lower Costs, More Transparency Act to build on existing price transparency rules and enshrine transparency as the law of the land.
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2 years ago Read more at Energy and Commerce Committee

UCL researchers analyzed data from 126,000 participants aged 40 to 69 years old from the UK Biobank cohort. Participants had been asked whether they were treated for amblyopia in childhood and if they still had the condition in adulthood. Their BMI (body mass index), blood glucose, and cholesterol levels were also measured and mortality was tracked.
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2 years ago Read more at News-Medical.Net

Researchers of a recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine investigated the relationship between daily step count and cardiovascular disease and mortality. They also investigated whether prolonged sedentary behavior affects the ideal number of daily steps. However, present research on daily stepping is limited.
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2 years ago Read more at News-Medical.Net

Indiana University Health Northeast Region announced a new partnership is says will provide more care for patients who need orthopedic joint replacements in northeast Indiana. The healthcare system said it would partner with the Indiana Joint Replacement Institute and its already-established cadre of surgeons.
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2 years ago Read more at WANE

Senators unanimously voted for the price transparency bill, HB 7089. The bill was the final holdout among the six pieces of legislation that make up the $1.1 billion “Live Healthy” package. Florida is one of just 10 states that refuse to offer the mostly federally subsidized health insurance program to its working poor.
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2 years ago Read more at Tampa Bay Times