Health Tip: Create a Space for Sleep
Title: Health Tip: Create a Space for Sleep
Category: Health News
Created: 4/30/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/30/2008 12:00:00 AM
Health Tip: Wear and Tear on the Knees
Title: Health Tip: Wear and Tear on the Knees
Category: Health News
Created: 4/29/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/29/2008 12:00:00 AM
Health Tip: Prevent a Pulled Hamstring
Title: Health Tip: Prevent a Pulled Hamstring
Category: Health News
Created: 4/28/2007 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/30/2007 12:00:00 AM
Health Tip: Understanding Tooth Plaque
Title: Health Tip: Understanding Tooth Plaque
Category: Health News
Created: 1/8/2020 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/8/2020 12:00:00 AM
Health Tip: Knocked Out Teeth
Title: Health Tip: Knocked Out Teeth
Category: Health News
Created: 1/2/2020 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 1/2/2020 12:00:00 AM
People put on ventilators for covid-19 may need lengthy rehabilitation
Healthcare systems need to prepare for the extensive physiotherapy and mental rehabilitation that people put on ventilators for covid-19 will need as they recover
'I felt humiliated' Brazilian nurses face attacks
Health workers face a growing tide of hostility in Brazil for potentially spreading COVID-19.
Solar storms may interfere with the ability of whales to navigate
Healthy grey whales are four times more likely to become stranded when solar activity produces lots of radio noise, suggesting solar storms may be blinding their ability to sense magnetic fields
Health Sector Development In Bhutan: Improving Disease Detection
The Health Sector Development Program, supported by the ADF facility and additional ADF grant funding for a total of $20 million, is improving primary health care delivery and information systems in Bhutan.
Healthy Habits to Stay Young
Time stops for no man, but there are many proven methods to help people stay younger or younger-looking, from healthy lifestyles to lotions and potions. Here are some of the most successful. ◆ Don't Smoke and Contain Stress The best way to slow down the aging process is to stop unhealthy habits. Exp...
Health care must be affordable and accessible, but also high quality -- by Valerie Shelly, Susann Roth, Kirthi Ramesh
Universal health coverage must be high quality to improve patients’ health outcomes
Health Ministry reports 35 new coronavirus cases, no new deaths in 24 hrs
No new deaths were reported on Saturday morning, marking the first full day Israel has gone without a COVID-19 related death in over a month.
Health chiefs pour cold water on hopes pubs to reopen next month
Efforts to fast-track the opening of pubs next month have been delivered a body blow by Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan.
17 deaths and 663 new infections for SA as Covid-19 cases surge to 8895
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced 663 new Covid-19 infections and 17 new deaths - the highest for new cases and deaths - taking SA's Covid-19 cases over 8800 and deaths to 171.
Health Experts Meet at EWC on Environmental Risks in Vulnerable Communities
HONOLULU (Sept. 24, 2013) -- Distinguished health experts from around the world are gathered this week at the East-West Center in Hawai‘i for the 15th International Conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health. Keynote speakers include Superfund Research Program Director William Suk of the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol of Thailand, a professor of chemistry who will speak on potential health impacts of exposure to environmental pollutants in children.
Major themes of the Sept. 24-27 conference include:
Health, fitness apps see more downloads amid lockdown
CureFit claims that as many as two lakh people are attending its live classes every day on the app.
Wearing healthy footwear key to healthy feet!
Healthy feet are vital for mobility. And because feet are so essential for keeping mobile and independent, when something goes wrong it can be a psychological strain too.
Health insurance: No health cover? Go for Arogya Sanjeevani
This new standard health insurance policy available with every general and standalone health insurer takes care of basic health needs, and is a must for first-time buyers, especially in smaller towns
Health insurance: Irdai for redefining sub-limit rules in policies
Draft exposure aims to restrict proportionate deduction which would lead to, in most cases, the insured being able to get a higher percentage of the bill reimbursed by insurer
Health Insurance: Know how a medical insurance claim is processed
Treatment expenses can be reimbursed by insurer or customer can opt for cashless facility
Healthy Lifestyle Habits Now May Lower Alzheimer’s Risk Later
As part of National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, the Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) urges Delawareans to make lifestyle adjustments to help reduce their risk factors for Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Health Care Commission Awards More Value-Based Payment Reform Mini-Grants to Delaware Health Care Providers
NEW CASTLE (Dec. 4, 2018) – As part of the State Innovation Model (SIM) initiative, the Delaware Health Care Commission has awarded eight additional value-based payment reform mini-grants to Delaware health care providers in order to facilitate data integration, improve the coordination of patient care or increase readiness to integrate into an Accountable Care Organization […]
Health Care Commission Awards First Value-Based Payment Reform Mini-Grant to a Christiana Care Behavioral Health Pilot
NEW CASTLE (Nov. 15, 2018) – As part of the State Innovation Model (SIM) initiative, the Delaware Health Care Commission has awarded the first value-based payment reform mini-grant to Christiana Care Health System to test a new reimbursement model that will also improve the coordination of patient care. Christiana Care Health System’s CareLink Behavioral Health […]
Health Officials Issue New Warning after 8 Deaths from Suspected Overdoses Occur Statewide in 4-Day Span
NEW CASTLE (Aug. 14, 2018) – Eight people have died from suspected overdoses in a four-day span across the state causing Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) Secretary Dr. Kara Odom Walker to alert the community to the wave of deaths and urging people in active use to seek treatment immediately and to carry […]
Health Care Commission Seeks Applications from Delaware Health Care Providers for One-Time Mini-Grants Related to Payment Reform
NEW CASTLE (July 26, 2018) – As part of the State Innovation Model (SIM) initiative, the Delaware Health Care Commission is seeking applications from Delaware health care providers for one-time, value-based payment reform mini-grants to grow their capacity to integrate data, improve the coordination of patient care or increase their readiness to integrate into a […]
Whether one hive or one hundred, it’s important to register your bee hive
Healthy Bees are essential to Delaware’s vegetable production and agricultural economy. Delaware's beekeeping laws aim to reduce the impact of stressors through specific requirements of all beekeepers in the state, such as hive registration, colony and equipment inspection for sale, trade or gifting of bees.
Health Insurance Rates Decrease 5.8%
July 1, 2019 Dover, DE—Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware (Highmark BCBS) has submitted its required annual rate filing to the Delaware Department of Insurance. After years of substantial increases, Delaware’s Marketplace has stabilized and premiums have decreased. Highmark BCBS, the only insurer continuing to offer insurance coverage in Delaware’s individual market, has proposed […]
Healthy Parent-Teacher Relationships Start With Healthy Student-Teacher Ones
Teacher Adrianne G. Williams cultivates an environment where she focuses on students' interpersonal qualities as well as their academic ones. The students see her effort, she says, and the parents follow.
Healthcare Algorithms Are Biased, and the Results Can Be Deadly
Deep-learning algorithms suffer from a fundamental problem: They can adopt unwanted biases from the data on which they're trained. In healthcare, this can lead to bad diagnoses and care recommendations.
Health care workers at St. Joseph battle the COVID-19 pandemic
Penn State Health St. Joseph has moved swiftly to tackle the COVID-19 crisis, converting portions of its hospital as COVID-19 clinics, applying tried-and-true methods and learning on the fly.
Health Outcomes in Young Adults From Foster Care and Economically Diverse Backgrounds
Youth in foster care are at higher risk of health problems at entrance and during their stays in care. Little is known about this group’s risk of health problems in young adulthood, in comparison with other populations of young adults.
This is the first prospective study to our knowledge demonstrating that former foster youth are at higher risk of chronic health problems than economically secure and insecure general population young adults. (Read the full article)
Health Care-Associated Infections Among Critically Ill Children in the US, 2007-2012
Health care–associated infections are harmful, costly, and preventable, yet there remain limited data as to their population incidence among hospitalized neonates and children in the United States.
Incidence rates of central line–associated bloodstream infections and ventilator-associated pneumonia decreased among critically ill neonates and children during a 5-year period in the United States. National efforts to improve patient safety through decreasing HAIs have been effective. (Read the full article)
Health Care Provider Advice for Adolescent Tobacco Use: Results From the 2011 National Youth Tobacco Survey
Cigarette smoking during adolescence causes significant health problems. Health care providers play an important role in promoting tobacco use abstinence among adolescents, but recent data on the prevalence of provider screening and advice to adolescents are lacking.
This study uses nationally representative surveillance data to provide current estimates of self-reported receipt of health professional screening and advice about tobacco use among US adolescents. Cessation behaviors and correlates of past-year quit attempts among smokers were also explored. (Read the full article)
Health Inequalities in Urban Adolescents: Role of Physical Activity, Diet, and Genetics
Individuals living in Mediterranean countries have historically had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Important changes in diet and lifestyle have taken place in these countries in recent years, and it is unknown how these changes might influence current cardiovascular health.
Fitness and fatness levels indicate that urban adolescents from southern Europe are less healthy than those from central northern Europe. The extent to which these differences might be explained by physical activity, diet, and genetics is analyzed and discussed in this article. (Read the full article)
Health Care Worker Exposures to Pertussis: Missed Opportunities for Prevention
The incidence of pertussis has significantly increased, and infection can result in severe disease among young children. This highly contagious disease may frequently be transmitted in pediatric health care settings, necessitating effective infection control practices to reduce exposure risk.
Despite institutional guidelines, pediatric health care workers (HCWs) are frequently exposed to pertussis because of delayed or incomplete adherence to infection control practices. Inconsistent reporting may also result in missed HCW exposures, increasing the risk of subsequent transmission to patients. (Read the full article)
Health Outcomes Associated With Transition From Pediatric to Adult Cystic Fibrosis Care
Transition from pediatric to adult care is often reported to be unsuccessful. Little evidential research has examined the actual proportion of youth in pediatric versus adult care or impact on health status outcomes after transferring from pediatric to adult care.
Our article extends the literature by providing health transition outcome data, something that has been recognized as a critical gap to developing evidence-based programming and health care transition policy. (Read the full article)
Health Care Costs Associated With Child Maltreatment: Impact on Medicaid
Child maltreatment is a serious and prevalent public health problem in the United States. Responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality, maltreatment affects children's physical and mental health.
Although many health impacts of child maltreatment have been documented, no claims-based study has quantified the impact of maltreatment on health service utilization and costs. This study presents systematic claims-based estimates of maltreatment impacts on utilization and costs for the Medicaid population. (Read the full article)
Health of Children Classified as Underweight by CDC Reference but Normal by WHO Standard
Many US children aged 6 to 24 months who would be classified as low weight-for-age by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 reference will be classified as normal weight-for-age by the World Health Organization 2006 standard.
Children who will be reclassified from low to normal weight-for-age using the World Health Organization growth standard are at higher risk of adverse health outcomes than children who are not low weight-for-age by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reference. (Read the full article)
Health Care Provider and Caregiver Preferences Regarding Nasogastric and Intravenous Rehydration
Some children with gastroenteritis fail to respond to oral rehydration. Subsequent interventions are dictated by regional preference. In North America, nasogastric rehydration is rarely administered. Caregiver and health care providers’ perspectives regarding its use have not been described previously.
Both caregivers and health care providers would select intravenous rehydration instead of nasogastric rehydration when oral rehydration fails. Greater knowledge mobilization efforts will be required for nasogastric rehydration to be adopted into clinical practice. (Read the full article)
Health-Related Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Medical advances have prolonged life for children and adolescents with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common inherited pediatric neuromuscular disorder. Children with this progressive disease surviving to adulthood still face significant threats to their quality of life.
Self-reported psychosocial quality of life was impaired in a significant number (57%) of boys with DMD, unrelated to their need for mobility aids. Concordance between the perceptions of parents and their sons related to psychosocial functioning was fair to poor. (Read the full article)
Health Risks of Oregon Eighth-Grade Participants in the "Choking Game": Results From a Population-Based Survey
Estimates of youth participation in strangulation activity, commonly referred to as the "choking game," range from 5% to 11%. Previous studies have documented correlations between youth choking game participation and health risks such as substance use and mental health issues.
Among Oregon eighth-graders surveyed, >6% had ever participated in the choking game. Participation was linked to poor nutrition and gambling among females, exposure to violence among males, and sexual activity and substance use among both genders. (Read the full article)
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Higher neighborhood educational attainment and socioeconomic status correlate with better self-rated health among Asian-Americans who live in Asian neighborhoods.
Health boards spend £17m on sending scans away to be read
HEALTH boards across Scotland have spent almost £17 million on sending scans to other parts of the country and across the world by private companies amid a staffing crisis.
Health administration students learn to manage rapid changes in health care
Students in Penn State’s Master of Health Administration program are learning first-hand how the skills and competencies they are acquiring in the classroom will be applied in their professional careers. A recent virtual roundtable event provided opportunities for students to learn real-world strategies from health care industry leaders that are being applied in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘I Do Fear for My Staff,’ a Doctor Said. He Lost His Job.
Health care professionals are being punished for protecting themselves, and us.
Health PEI planning to use section of PE Home for COVID cases from any long-term care home
Health PEI plans to create a COVID-19 unit within the Prince Edward Home to be used for any long-term care resident — living in any long-term care facility on the Island — who is diagnosed with the virus.
Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met with Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck to Plot 2010 Election
Healthy Holiday Gift Ideas for Women
Treat the babe in your life to one (or two or three) of these indulgent gifts.