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Aaron Carter died in 2022 after struggling with addiction and mental health. His official cause of death determined by the Los Angeles County coroner was that Aaron drowned in a bathtub after taking an anti-anxiety medication, alprazolam, and inhaling difluoroethane, a flammable gas. In 2022, nearly 108,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
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2 years ago Read more at CBS News

UnitedHealth says files with personal information may have been taken in the cyberattack earlier this year on its Change Healthcare business. The company said Monday after markets closed that it sees no signs that doctor charts or full medical histories were released after the attack. It may take several months of analysis before UnitedHealth can identify and notify people who were affected. UnitedHealth bought Change Healthcare in a roughly $8 billion deal that closed in 2022 after surviving a challenge from federal regulators.
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2 years ago Read more at ABC News

Maine joins more than a dozen states in enacting protections. The measure, LD 227, was approved by the legislature on April 12. At least 24 states have banned access to safe and effective medical care for transgender adolescents.
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2 years ago Read more at GLAD

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) announced the approval of funding awards totaling more than $150 million to support new patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies. The awards include support for large, two-phased trials comparing approaches to treatments for heart failure and asthma. This latest round of PCORI funding awards also includes CER studies exploring questions about the value of screening for financial hardship to improve patient outcomes for individuals with advanced cancer.
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2 years ago Read more at PR Newswire

The Center for Outreach, Aging, Alzheimer’s and Community Health (COAACH) at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will host a community cookout and health fair. The event is open to the public and registration is recommended. To achieve this, COAACH will promote healthy aging, highlight student engagement in neuroscience research and provide support groups and activities for local caregivers.
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2 years ago Read more at North Carolina A&T

The EPI Health/Novan Trustee is initiating a voluntary recall of various within-expiry human drug products. The discontinuation of these post-marketing programs means the company will not be able to support or guarantee that the products will meet all intended specifications through the labeled shelf life of the product. Further distribution or use of any remaining product on the market should cease immediately.
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

UnitedHealth paid $22 million in the form of bitcoin after the cyberattack. UnitedHealth blamed the breach on a Russian ransomware gang known as ALPHV or BlackCat.
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2 years ago Read more at CBS News

What do you like most about working in home health? Learn more about their experiences on the road to wellness. Meet Katie, Home Health Physical Therapist What does a typical workday look like for you? It is a fast-paced job that allows me to work one-on-one with my patients in their home environment to encourage a functional change and improve their quality of life.
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2 years ago Read more at Valley Health

Black adults who live in the U.S. have a 59 percent higher risk of premature death than white adults. Education impacts employment, which impacts healthcare. Home ownership is an indicator of what people can and cannot afford.
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2 years ago Read more at WAFB

A total of 21 CMOs participated in the three focus group interviews (Table 1). Twelve were specialists in community medicine/public health. Half of them were over 45 years old. The intended variation in geography and municipality size was reached.
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2 years ago Read more at BMC Public Health