HEALTH

In Canada, almost two in three adults and one in three children and youth are overweight or living with obesity. Obesity increases the risk for several chronic diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Public Health Agency of Canada supports healthy living by investing in interventions that address health inequalities and chronic disease prevention.
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2 years ago Read more at Canada.ca

Health care professionals are keen on understanding why and how certain demographics use specific resources. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing research was conducted to identify which demographics have access, would benefit most, and are more likely to use digital health portals for primary care needs.
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2 years ago Read more at Drug Topics

A federal judge in Texas said last year that it doesn’t. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth ruled some of the preventive care requirements of the 2010 law are unconstitutional. If upheld, his ruling could affect coverage and costs for anywhere from 100 million to 150 million people.
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2 years ago Read more at KALB

Officials say the clinic will be located on Fort Wayne’s southwest side at 7988 W. Jefferson Boulevard. Women’s Walk-In Care is a same-day clinic that serves to provide services for various urgent women’s healthcare concerns without the need for an appointment.
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2 years ago Read more at 21 Alive News

A doctor takes a patient’s medical history, discusses symptoms, administers verbal and visual cognitive tests. The patient may undergo a PET scan, an M.R.I. or a spinal tap. All of that could change dramatically if new criteria proposed by an Alzheimer’s Association working group are widely adopted.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

There is a pressing need to explore and understand which social determinants of health (SDOH) and health inequities act as significant influential factors that contribute to low breast cancer screening behaviors in the United States. Health disparities have been consistently associated with delayed screening, which then contributes to higher mortality rates among both Hispanic and Black populations. In addition, poverty, lack of education, neighborhood disadvantage, residential segregation, racial discrimination.
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2 years ago Read more at EurekAlert

BAMF Health and Corewell Health Haworth Innovative Therapeutics Clinic plan to collaborate on a clinical trial to test targeted radiation therapy for cancer patients. Phase I trial will include both adolescent and adult patients with recurrent or resistant small-cell lung cancer, sarcoma, and malignant melanoma.
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2 years ago Read more at AuntMinnie

NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Cumberland announced a state-of-the-art 3D mammogram machine. It provides cutting-edge breast cancer detection and a more comfortable experience for patients. New mammography, also known as breast tomosynthesis, captures multiple images of the breast from different angles.
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2 years ago Read more at nychealthandhospitals.org

The Charger Blog Inspired to explore the unique health challenges of international women. The exhibition was recently showcased at the University’s Seton Gallery. By Aishwarya Sreenivasan ’23 MPH, Priyanka Srirangam ’24 MPH and Surya Madhavi Dinavahi. This project aims to address the unique challenges faced by international women students.
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2 years ago Read more at University of New Haven News

despite this, “race” is still used as an indicator in many manuals and guidelines in Dutch healthcare. The General Practitioner Training Netherlands taught trainee GPs to register race in lung function tests because it would be important for interpreting results, NU.nl found. Erasmus MC still mentioned race as a factor “in patients with an African-Caribbean ethnicity” in a manual.
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2 years ago Read more at NL Times