HEALTH

Ozempic is a prescription drug known for its benefits in patients with diabetes. Dr. Chitharanjan Duvoor said there are no severe side effects that should alarm patients.
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1 year ago Read more at KAIT

Net Loss: Reported at $81.9 million, slightly up from $629.2 million in the previous year, slightly exceeding estimates of $637.29 million. Earnings Per Share (EPS): Recorded a loss of $0.49 per share, compared to $0.42 per share in the prior year. Adjusted EBITDA: Increased by 20% to $63.1 million from $52.8 million in previous year; indicating strong global market performance. Future Outlook: Anticipates Q2 2024 revenue between $6
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1 year ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

The study was conducted over a 20-year peroid with cognitive assessments completed every one to two years throughout an almost ten-year follow-up period. Black women with poor cardiovascular health might have an elevated risk of early cognitive decline, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. The participants included 363 Black and 402 white women between the ages of 42 and 52.
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1 year ago Read more at Medical News Today

Live music, food and family fun brought more than 1,000 Texas Veterans and their families together on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in April. Veterans from the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center were front and center at the event, educating Veterans about PACT Act benefits, assisting them with enrollment information and just taking the opportunity to thank them for their service. Combined Arms is a Veteran nonprofit and provider of a highly advanced and user-friendly technology platform.
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1 year ago Read more at Veterans Affairs

The FDA used quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) testing to check the milk. It doesn’t necessarily mean the milk contains a live virus that could cause an infection. In the case of food, the genetic material, the RNA found in the grocery store milk samples, may not be the infectious H5N1 virus.
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1 year ago Read more at UC Davis Health

Students from Livingston and Atwater high schools in the Central Valley visited the UC Davis School of Medicine for hands-on learning in a simulation lab. They learned how to improve their chances of getting into a school that accepts fewer than 3% of its applicants. A key to boosting workforce needs in Central Valley counties, medical school leaders say, is to recruit students who are from those areas.
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1 year ago Read more at UC Davis Health

Department of Health and Environmental Control will be sharing monthly non-fatal overdose data online publicly to transparently show drug trends and make people aware of overdose effects across the state. DHEC’s Overdose Dashboard She hopes the site is another tool in the box of professionals who work in treatment and prevention. The site breaks down how often certain drugs appear in overdoses. Samples come anonymously from partner hospitals across the country.
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1 year ago Read more at Live 5 News WCSC

Kaiser is the latest healthcare organization to confirm it shared patients’ personal information with third-party advertisers. In a statement shared with TechCrunch, Kaiser said that it conducted an investigation that found online technologies may have transmitted personal information to third-partie vendors. Over the past year, telehealth startups Cerebral, Monument and Tempest have pulled tracking code from their apps that shared patient and health information.
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1 year ago Read more at TechCrunch

Congressman Steve Cohen announced that Tri-State Community Health Center will receive a grant of $1,416,200 for its ongoing work with the underserved from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Congressman Cohen made the following statement: “Tri state community health center meets a critical need, as they serve many people who do not have access to affordable health insurance because Tennessee has not expanded its Medicaid program, TennCare. The state’s failure to do so continues to endanger this population
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1 year ago Read more at Congressman Steve Cohen

Governor Laura Kelly tours small businesses in Emporia on the final stop on the “Health Workers, Healthy Economy” tour. The Office of the Governor officials stated a statewide poll revealed that 83% of small business owners favor expanding Medicaid in Kansas. Medicaid expansion would also create nearly 23,000 new jobs in Kansas with 365 of those being in Lyon County.
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1 year ago Read more at WIBW