Hospitals and health systems are expanding their visions of population health to include more effective approaches to manage – and even fend off – chronic diseases and conditions. In fact, many institutions are successfully applying their expertise in community health to help people stay out of the hospital by addressing key social determinants of health such as food insecurity. In doing so, they are hoping to...
The Biden administration is setting the stage to hand ultimate control of America’s health care system and U.S. national sovereignty over to the World Health Organization (WHO).
On May 22-28, 2022, the 75th World Health Assembly will convene at United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, with delegates from 194 nations, to vote on the Biden administration’s amendments that will hand over national sovereignty and...
Physicians and other health experts have learned a great deal in the fight against COVID-19 over the last two years.
“We made advancements in how we test, how we treat and how we care for patients infected with the virus,” said AMA President Gerald E. Harmon, MD . Researchers developed three safe, highly effective and accessible vaccines for COVID-19 in a remarkably short period of time.
America, however, has fallen...
In celebration of National Nurses Week, we are honoring each and every nomination in the Nurses: The Heart of Health Care program. Be sure to scroll through to see a glimpse into how each of these tireless professionals impacted coworkers, patients and families.
This program is supported by presenting sponsor BJC HealthCare and title sponsors Centene Corporation , Delmar Gardens , Mercy ...
People’s physical and mental health is influenced by a large and diverse array of factors. But how can the attitudes of other people affect individuals’ well-being? In this Special Feature, we examine the impact that microaggressions have on health.
Prof. Derald Wing Sue — a leading psychologist at Columbia University — and his collaborators give the definition of microaggressions as “the...
Mysterious cases of serious liver damage or hepatitis in kids have been reported in a dozen countries, including the U.S., the U.K., Japan, and Canada.
Health officials say there have been nearly 200 cases, 17 liver transplants, and one death.
Health officials report that the outbreak may be linked to adenovirus, a common cold virus.
Any child showing signs of jaundice, a symptom of hepatitis, should be...
President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to expand availability of the life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration is taking steps to expand availability of the life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid, seeking to reassure doctors that there is ample supply for people at high risk of severe illness or death from the virus.
Paxlovid,...
(CNN) The United States is "certainly, right now, in this country, out of the pandemic phase," Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on PBS's "NewsHour" on Tuesday.
"Namely, we don't have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level...
Participation in the tennis-type competition has taken off in recent years, spans generations and holds promises for healthier living.
While Americans have long loved football, basketball and baseball, a sport that's only a half-century old has captured the hearts of boomers and millennials alike and skyrocketed in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The sport is pickleball – a hybrid of tennis,...
Even the smallest dose of exercise, such as a short, brisk walk, can significantly lower the risk of depression, a new data meta-analysis study says .
According to a journal article published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry, 15 peer-reviewed studies on depression reduction and its association with exercise were examined that involved more than 190,000 people.
The analysis found that an average of 1.25 hours of...
Months of confusing messaging, piled onto existing inequities, kneecapped America’s booster campaign before it had really started.
By this point in the pandemic, the benefits of boosters seem pretty darn clear. Boosters continue the immune system’s education on the coronavirus , upping the quantity of defensive fighters available, while expanding the breadth of variants that vaccinated...
Even after she’s clocked out, Sarah Lewin keeps a Ford Explorer outfitted with medical gear parked outside her house. As one of just four paramedics covering five counties across vast, sprawling eastern Montana, she knows a call that someone had a heart attack, was in a serious car crash, or needs life support and is 100-plus miles away from the nearest hospital can come at any time.
“I’ve had as much as 100 hours of...