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Better health and diet well before conception results in healthier pregnancies
Maternal and child health in Australia, like most countries, has traditionally focused on health during pregnancy and in the early years of life. But this approach may be missing a key opportunity to...
View ArticleP&G to buy German Merck’s consumer health unit for $4.2 billion
(Reuters) – Procter Gamble Co (PG) has agreed to acquire Merck KGaA’s consumer health unit for 3.4 billion euros ($4.2 billion), giving it vitamin brands such as Seven Seas and greater exposure to...
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Getting just 6 hours of sleep is linked to mental health issues
It’s not worth skimping on sleep plainpicture/photocake.de By Catherine de Lange You might think you can get by on 5 or 6 hours’ sleep a night, but people who get less than 7 hours are more likely to...
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A closer look at the significance of study replication in health informatics
Various fields have struggled with poor reproducibility of studies. A new article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association explores how this issue is affecting the field of...
View ArticleA unifying concept in vascular health and disease
© 2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved. AAAS is a partner of HINARI, AGORA, OARE, CHORUS, CLOCKSS, CrossRef and COUNTER. Science ISSN 1095-9203. Article source:...
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Couples in retirement face average health care costs of $280000, Fidelity...
Image source: Getty Images. The biotech sector is a great hunting ground for investors who are after stocks that offer massive upside. If you buy shares in a company that goes on to create a...
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Police, towns clash over mental health treatment
Caption Close HARTFORD — A movement to provide police officers and firefighters with mental health treatment for trauma suffered while doing their job is hitting a wall of opposition from towns and...
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E. coli outbreak warning expands to all types of romaine lettuce
This post has been updated. Public health officials are now telling consumers to avoid all types of romaine lettuce from southwest Arizona because of an E. coli outbreak linked to the vegetable that...
View ArticleEthicists Call for More Scrutiny of ‘Human-Challenge’ Trials
The scientists leading the trial say it is necessary to prevent a future epidemic. But Ms. Shah and other bioethicists convened by the N.I.H. concluded in 2017 that the research had “insufficient...
View ArticleTop health systems strive to reduce variation in performance across network
At the three hospitals in the Asante health system, the process for preventing central line-associated bloodstream infections is designed to proceed in exactly the same way. The nurse manager in each...
View ArticleHealthy Trader Joe’s products nutritionists swear by
As a dietitian, it’s my job to make eating well easy and accessible for people. And as a busy working parent, I need fast, nutritious solutions myself! The beloved grocery store Trader Joe’s does this...
View ArticleArticle mocked person with mental-health issues
By Letter to the Editor on April 22, 2018. Hooray for Gerald Morton (Letters to the Editor, April 11) who spoke about the trivialization of the incident reported by Delon Shurtz in The Herald on March...
View ArticleState’s adolescent metal health care lags
Tens of thousands of adolescents in Connecticut still do not have access to effective mental health care, despite the passage of a 2008 federal law requiring health insurers to provide equal benefits...
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The NHS is facing a mental health crisis. Can online therapy help?
Underfunded and squeezed to breaking point, the NHS is struggling to provide mental health care to everyone that needs it. In the UK, mental health conditions make up around 28 per cent of the total...
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Partners for a Healthy Baby program addresses family needs
1 / 1 Show Caption + Hide Caption – The Partners for a Health Baby program addresses various family needs, including preparing siblings for the arrival of a new brother or sister. (Photo Credit:...
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IBM Watson Health Finds Nation’s Top-Performing Health Systems Deliver More...
This year’s study finds that of those health systems surveyed, the country’s top-performing health systems are achieving better clinical and operational performance through more consistent care among...
View ArticleMinors can refuse mental health treatment in some US states
NBC News called all 50 states and discovered about 40 percent of them give minors the power to consent to treatment – sometimes as young as 12. Designed in the 1970s to protect young people, the law...
View ArticleAdventist Health and St. Joseph Health to form regional joint operating company
Adventist Health and St. Joseph Health plan to integrate their Northern California clinical operations through a new joint operating company, the organizations announced Monday. The partnership would...
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NY health officials warn on possible measles exposure
The tourists are believed to have visited three locations between April 15-17. (AP) Authorities in New York issued a warning about possible measles exposure after it was discovered that two infected...
View ArticleRutgers elects inaugural chair of the Department of Urban-Global Public Health
The former vice president of education for Planned Parenthood Federation of America now has a new job at the Rutgers School of Public Health — as the inaugural chair of the Department of Urban-Global...
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