HEALTH

The number of school-aged children presenting to hospital with pneumonia symptoms has tripled compared to January. For those aged five to 16 years old, the numbers were even worse. Older teenagers and adults are also being infected, with 127 ending up in emergency rooms. Qantas investigating app glitch exposing passenger details Experts say the emergency room numbers are 'almost certainly" an under-representation of pneumonia cases'
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8 months ago Read more at 9News

Australia’s healthcare productivity grew by around 3% every year between 2011–12 and 2017–18. New research from the Productivity Commission found healthcare workers deliver some of the best value for money of any in the world. but it warned there is still significant room for improvement, and the positive performance ‘is not grounds for complacency’.
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8 months ago Read more at RACGP

Rep. Rodney Willett, D-Henrico County, and a panel of 11 other legislators made the drive to Tazewell County. The committee is tasked with exploring the barriers to health care in rural Virginia. In rural areas, limited broadband can hinder access to telehealth.
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8 months ago Read more at Cardinal News

In communicating with others, the ability to pinpoint the reason someone is experiencing an emotion vastly improves your communication with them. A quick internet search suggests there are more than 3,000 words for our feelings. The app lists 144 words to describe our feelings and connects those feelings to other events, the weather, sleep and physical activity.
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8 months ago Read more at DTN The Progressive Farmer

Florida’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy went into effect Wednesday. Some doctors are concerned that women in the state will no longer have access to needed health care. The new ban has an exception for saving a woman's life, as well as in cases involving rape.
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8 months ago Read more at ABC News

No one disputes that Michelle Wierson crashed her SUV into a car stopped at a traffic light. But while prosecutors say she needs to be held accountable for her actions, her lawyers say her mental state at the time absolves her of liability. When Wierson sped through the streets of a DeKalb County, Georgia, neighborhood, she believed she was on a God-assigned mission to save her daughter from being killed.
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8 months ago Read more at ABC News

Access to biosimilars is critical for patients who may need them. A new report authored by Sree Chaguturu, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, CVS Health, explains how biosimilar drugs help make treatments more affordable.
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8 months ago Read more at CVS Health

More than 1,700 participants attended the largest conference for children’s mental health. The 28th annual Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conference is an event for everyone who works with or cares for infants, children, adolescents and their families. Leaders at the conference also stress the importance of making sure childcare providers also know where to start.
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8 months ago Read more at Northern News Now

psychiatry registrar Sean Halstead said people living with severe mental illness continue to face significant health inequity compared to the general population, particularly those aged under 40. This review sought to calculate how common multimorbidity, or the presence of two or more chronic health conditions, was between those living with and without severe mental health.
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8 months ago Read more at News-Medical.Net

Rutgers University professor Phoebe Stapleton joins us to discuss what we know about the link between plastic and human health. The fascinating history of the long-forgotten posture panic of the early 20th century. Scientists worried America was in the midst of a dangerous epidemic of slouching that would cause people to de-evolve.
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8 months ago Read more at WHYY