The United States is in the middle of a wintertime COVID wave, driven by holiday gatherings, people spending more time inside, waning immunity from low uptake of the new COVID vaccine and a new highly infectious COVID variant, JN.1. A viral social media post based on data from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and...
A correlation was found between the social distancing index, a measure of overall social distancing behaviors observed, and higher rates of neonatal and early neonatal mortality, as well as preterm birth, when assessed with a lag period. Results were published today in JAMA Network Open. When a lag period was added, higher SDI was associated...
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Access to health care through Oregon Health Plan (OHP/Medicaid) continues to grow and improve through a number of changes to OHP policy. Some of these changes took effect in 2023, and others take effect this month or later in 2024. OHP benefits that took effect in 2023 that you may not know about Expanded benefits...
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By Grace Vitaglione Carolina Public Press LaWanda Mason admitted her mother to Huntersville Health and Rehabilitation Center outside Charlotte in May 2019, after she had a stroke. Mason’s mother needed a feeding tube for hydration and nutrition, and could only eat soft foods fed to her by staff. Mason visited often and said she noticed...
Unionized workers picket outside the Providence Community Health Centers on Oct. 12, 2023. Lynn Arditi/The Public’s Radio hide caption toggle caption Lynn Arditi/The Public’s Radio Unionized workers picket outside the Providence Community Health Centers on Oct. 12, 2023. Lynn Arditi/The Public’s Radio First, her favorite doctor in Providence, R.I. retired. Then her other doctor, at...
As Christmas approaches, many children experience the “gimme-gimmes” and write a list of toys that they hope Santa will bring. This is to be expected. Toys give children a chance to learn and be curious, engage their imaginations in play and become socialised with others. Unfortunately, 80 percent of all toys end up in landfills,...
BOSTON – The U.S. Attorney’s Office has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Steward St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center of Boston, Inc. (SEMC); Steward Medical Group, Inc. (SMG); and Steward Health Care System, LLC (Steward) alleging that they violated the Physician Self-Referral Law (commonly referred to as the “Stark Law”) and submitted and...
New York has become the second U.S. state to protect their residents’ credit scores from being tarnished by unpaid medical bills. New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed a bill barring credit reporting agencies such as Equifax, Experian and TransUnion from factoring in medical debt in consumers’ credit reports. Colorado also excludes medical debt from credit scores, except...