Community Health

Advancing A Health System Transformation Agenda Focused On Achieving Health Equity

There has been an important and ongoing effort over the past decade to address the manifest failures of our health care system by changing payment …

An Instagram star's cookbook has been recalled after critics said it recommended potentially toxic ingredients

Instagram influencer Johnna Holmgren's cookbook "Tales From a Forager's Kitchen" has been recalled, according to a note on Rodale Books' website, spotted by BuzzFeed News on Friday.<p>"Rodale Books and Johnna Holmgren have decided to discontinue the publication and promotion of the book," the …

Police kill about 3 men per day in the U.S., according to new study

<b>(Getty/mrtom-uk)</b><p>There are multiple efforts to count police homicides in the U.S.<p>Frank Edwards • Michael H. Esposito<p>August 11, 2018 12:29pm (UTC)<p>This article was originally published on The Conversation.<p>Police in the U.S. kill on average more than 1,000 men per year, or about three men per day. …

Tragic and unsolved inner-city murders

In the last ten years, about 26,000 homicides committed in the United States have not led to an arrest. This fact is noted in a recent Washington …

The Ecology Of An Itch

<i>An unprecedented medical issue in a tribal village led health workers to conduct a micro-study of the rural area, which taught them invaluable</i> …

BC-CfE Guidelines

Primary Care<p>There has been a significant decrease in the morbidity and mortality of HIV-positive individuals in the province of British Columbia …

Employee & Community Health

Launching your young adult<p>8/9/2018 by Hannah Mulholland, LICSW; Cassandra Narr, APRN, CNP<p>Getting ready to send your young adult off to college or …

Saint Thomas adds COOs at Midtown, West hospitals

Saint Thomas Health has announced that Jeremy Gray will serve as chief operating officer and Marco Fernandez will work as chief nursing officer, both …

Would a for-profit Mission be efficient — or ruthless?

CLOSE<p>Reporter Mark Barrett explains aspects of the proposed sale of Mission Health to Hospital Corporation of America.<p>ASHEVILLE – The idea that …

More nurse practitioners now pursue residency programs to hone skills

The patient at the clinic was in his 40s and had lost both his legs to Type 1 diabetes. He had mental health and substance abuse problems and was …

State Attorney General approves making DeKalb Medical part of Emory Healthcare

Source: FacebookDeKalb Medical will soon become a part of the Emory Healthcare system.The state Attorney General signed off on the deal and the …

Montana voices: Equal opportunity for health has local implications

Achieving high levels of health and wellbeing for ALL is within the United States’ grasp.<p>As conversations about Medicaid funding shortfalls persist, …

Icahn Institute partners in $6.5 million NIH award to advance precision medicine

New center will accelerate development of predictive models of biological systems to guide precision medicine and bioengineering<p>The National …

CrescentCare awarded $15,000 for food bank program | NOLA.com

CrescentCare of New Orleans has been awarded a $15,000 grant to support its Food for Friends pantry program for low income and homeless families and …

Radical plans for £300m new hospital between Huddersfield and Dewsbury unveiled

Radical plans have been unveiled for a new £300m state-of-the-art hospital to serve the whole of Kirklees.<p>With the futures of both Huddersfield Royal …

In weary post-storm Puerto Rico, Medicaid cutbacks bode new ills

<b>A man walks past a house laying in flood water in Catano town, in Juana Matos, Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria (Getty/Hector Retamal)</b><p>Puerto Rico is moving ahead with major cuts to its health care safety net<p>Sarah Varney • Carmen Heredia Rodriguez<p>August 10, 2018 7:00am (UTC)<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — …

Community Health: Cheap fitness Q&A

Given its sheer size and location, the redevelopment of County Square is one of the biggest — and the most important — developments in Greenville’s …

Three reasons Trump’s new immigration rule should make your blood boil

Once again, the Trump administration is looking to punish immigrants. And once again, innocent children are getting hurt in the process.<p>This time, however, many of those innocent children are likely to be U.S. citizens.<p>On Tuesday, NBC News reported that the Trump administration is readying a new …

SpecialtyVare Inc. buys Precedent Health - Nashville Business Journal

By Joel Stinnett <br>– Reporter, Nashville Business Journal<p>Aug 9, 2018, 2:33pm CDT<p>A fast-growing Brentwood-based health care company has bought a fellow …

We’ve been ignoring the problem of dads and depression for decades—at a huge cost to kids

Being a new mom is incredibly tough—particularly in the US, where women may lack access to paid leave, parenting support programs, and affordable childcare and health-care services. But research suggests that we need to start offering a lot more support and care to men making the transition to …

The high cost of being broke: Dental care

In February, one of Amanda Dornheim’s teeth started hurting.<p>For a while, she put off dealing with it.<p>She was uninsured — and hadn’t been to a dentist …

WashU Medical School Campaign

Contributed by Katie Ehrlich<i><br>Photo: Katie Ehrlich. License: All Rights Reserved.</i> <br>The WashU Medical School approached me and illustrator Kevin …

Interop Forum Day 3

<i>With help from Mohana Ravindranath (@ravindranize)</i><p><b>INTEROP FORUM DAY THREE:</b> The final day of ONC’s interoperability forum brought demos and summations. Here are the most important parts:<p>— <b>New holiday?:</b> ONC’s Steve Posnack, the emcee for the day, used part of his time to proclaim a new holiday of …

Solitary Confinement Kills Indigenous Men Like Me

We're isolated more than non-Indigenous prisoners, and it’s adding to a history of trauma.<p>I spent 36 hours straight in solitary—what the Canadian government prefers to call administrative segregation.<p>The living conditions were filthy. The room was constantly lit, the toilet only flushed when they …

From factory floors to Rohingya refugee children: The journey of a vaccine | UNICEF

Is a diverse diet the healthiest way to go? Maybe not

Encouraging people to eat a variety of foods, also known as dietary diversity, may actually backfire, according to a new scientific statement by the …

Saskatoon group hopes to halt repeat of Canada's residential school tragedy in Kenya

Canada's residential school tragedy is being repeated in Kenya's Maasai Mara region, says a Saskatoon man working to change the situation.<p>"We want to …

Tools in e-records fail to help patients on lots of meds

Giving patients tools via electronic health records to help them manage complex drug regimens didn’t improve medication adherence or lower blood …

Twilio Makes WhatsApp Available Inside Any App

Twilio is a company that has made headlines before, often as a result of its earnings and IPO potential. Other reports have also spent time looking inside the Twilio platform, so we know that Twilio offers communications services including texting, voice and video calls for developers to build …

In Baltimore, The Gap Between White And Black Homeownership Persists

Devan Southerland knows she wants to purchase a home in Baltimore City. She is cautious, though, after hearing about how predatory lenders …