[email protected] (NewsUSA) ( NewsUSA ) – Quit smoking.Easy to say, but hard to do, as many smokers can confirm. Encouraging smokers to quit saves billions in health care costs, promotes longer, healthier lives, and restores lost productivity, according to the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA).Quitting smoking is a challenge, but[Read More…]
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Reports of patients’ deaths linked to heart devices lurk below radar
By Christina Jewett Kaiser Health News The Food and Drug Administration continues to file thousands of reports of patients’ deaths related to medical devices through a reporting system that keeps the safety data out of the public eye. The system is similar to a vast program exposed earlier this year[Read More…]
Patient-induced trauma: Hospitals learn to defuse violence (copy)
By Heidi De Marco Kaiser Health News SAN DIEGO — When Mary Prehoden gets dressed for work every morning, her eyes lock on the bite-shaped scar on her chest. It’s a harsh reminder of one of the worst days of her life. Prehoden, a nurse supervisor at Scripps Mercy Hospital[Read More…]
Built for counterterrorism, this high-tech machine is now used to detect fentanyl
By Martha Bebinger WBUR, Kaiser Health News Sarah Mackin runs a cotton swab around the inside of a tiny plastic baggie that appears empty. She spreads whatever residue the swab picked up onto a test strip that resembles a Band-Aid, then slides the strip into a buzzing machine about the[Read More…]
4 Questions to Ask Before The Dec. 7 Medicare Deadline
[email protected] (NewsUSA) ( NewsUSA ) -People with Medicare have until Saturday, Dec. 7 to select their Medicare Advantage or Prescription Drug Plan coverage for 2020. To ensure you have the right Medicare plan in place come January 1 of next year, it’s important to focus on these four key questions:*[Read More…]
Mental Health Patients Reap Benefits of Psychoanalysis
[email protected] (NewsUSA) ( NewsUSA ) – Psychoanalysis, often stereotyped in arts and literature as patients reclining on couches and talking about their mothers, is enjoying renewed scientific support. Studies have found that psychoanalytic therapies are evidence-based and lead to significant improvements in mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic[Read More…]
Addressing The Health Needs of The Whole Person
[email protected] (NewsUSA) ( NewsUSA ) – Social, economic and environmental factors play a key role in people’s health – where they live, learn work, and play. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of wealth, power and resources at global, national and local levels.Identifying these so-called “social determinants of health”[Read More…]
Beyond Meat raises sales forecast despite competition
Steve Helber NEW YORK (AP) — Beyond Meat is facing a growing field of competitors but on Monday it raised its sales forecast for the year citing its leading role a new wave of vegetarian products intended to more closely mimic meat. The El Segundo, California, company noted the multiple[Read More…]