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Can fermented foods and drinks boost your health?
It’s hard to imagine how food left out to fester could possibly be good for you. But research has shown how some fermented foods contain bacteria that can help preserve the sanctity of what’s referred...
View ArticleGSK advances in Pfizer consumer health auction as Reckitt quits
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) has pulled ahead in a race to buy Pfizer’s (PFE.N) consumer healthcare business, which the U.S. drugmaker believes could be worth as much as $20...
View ArticleHCA signs letter of intent to acquire Mission Health
Mission Health announced Thursday it plans to join HCA Healthcare, a move the Asheville, N.C.-based system wrote in a statement reflects its long-term vision and commitment to quality in a rapidly...
View ArticleMeet Trump’s New, Homophobic Public Health Quack
The extraordinarily disruptive turnover in the Trump administration’s senior staff has officially reached the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The White House, having already cycled through...
View ArticleKevin and Channing Share Stories About Mental Health
Channing has had my back for years — with both basketball stuff and life stuff. He’s always been one of the most open communicators I’ve known, which always made it easier for me open up. One big...
View ArticleAmerican Adults Just Keep Getting Fatter
The latest data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey comes at a time when the food industry is pushing back against stronger public health measures aimed at combating obesity. In...
View ArticleDrug shortages cripple Angola’s health service
OKANAUTONI, Angola (Reuters) – Apart from a few packs of medicine and plastic jars, the shelves at the Okanautoni health center in southern Angola are bare and lack basic drugs for saving lives. Hours...
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Follow a mobile health team treating children in Yemen’s remotest villages
International Rescue Committee mobile health teams in war-torn Yemen are delivering lifesaving medical services to people living in remote mountainous regions. In the village of Mosuk, about a...
View ArticleChicago county health system calls for federal gun control
As thousands rally in the nation’s capital and around the country this weekend to protest for tougher gun control laws, a delegation from one of the country’s largest public health systems will ask...
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How birth interventions affect babies’ health in the short and long term
Medical and surgical intervention during birth continues to rise in much of the world. Nearly one in three women who give birth in Australia have a caesarean section and around 50% have their labour...
View ArticleRPT-Drug shortages cripple Angola’s health service
(Repeats story published on March 25 with no changes) * Angolan health centres lack drugs and equipment * President Lourenço has vowed to improve health system * State budget for health lags peers By...
View ArticleUNC Women’s Health provides numerous paths to contraception for students
Some patients already have preferences in mind when they consult Women’s Health for their first form of birth control. “I’m way too irresponsible to take the pill so I have Nexplanon. It’s my first...
View ArticleNestle’s Milkybar targets healthy sweet spot with designer sugar
YORK, England (Reuters) – Nestle is launching a lower-sugar Milkybar made with a new version of the sweetener which could help ease the $185 billion confectionery industry’s growing public health...
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Grindr, Popular Gay Sex App, to Offer HIV Test Reminders
“This will ‘demedicalize’ testing and destigmatize it,” Dr. Halkitis said. “The more you make it normal, the more people are going to access it.” Dr. Jonathan Mermin, chief of AIDS and sexually...
View ArticleMedia Report: Finger Lakes Health Paid Ransom, Restoring Systems After Cyber...
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Oscar Health, Josh Kushner’s health insurance start-up, raises $165 million...
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View ArticleObesity Rate Now Tops 40 Percent in the United States, Data Show
March 28, 2018 Obesity rates are climbing at an alarming rate, leading experts to look for a new way to advise people of the health effects of having a high body mass index (BMI) and the benefits of...
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Health care providers less likely to offer HPV vaccination to teenage boys,...
A new study has revealed that health care providers may be failing to routinely offer the HPV vaccine to boys, potentially putting them at risk of cancer later in life. Infection with human...
View ArticleFemale physician builds partnerships through Global Health Engagements
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AFNS) — A career in the Air Force is often a truly global experience. For Lt. Col. Elizabeth Erickson, her experiences in military health outreach around the world allows her to...
View ArticleHealth Quest, Western Connecticut health systems plan to combine
Two health systems in New York and Connecticut are teaming up to create a seven-hospital system with combined revenues of $2.4 billion. Health Quest Systems, a four-hospital system based in...
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