A COVID-19 wave is sweeping the country, causing the virus to surge to its highest infection levels since summer of 2022, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s wastewater dashboard. Deaths and hospitalizations are also up, but not as much as infections. The CDC says currently about four out of 100,000 people are hospitalized, up from the pandemic low of one in 100,000 in May. Read more from CNN.
Why It’s So Hard to Find a Therapist Who Takes #Insurance
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Those who need #therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have #health insurance.
Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable.
#News #HealthCare #MentalHealth #Government #Business #Law #Doctors #Hospital #Patients
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‘Average life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa jumped from 56 years in 2010 to 61 years in 2023 thanks to progress made in the fight against HIV/AIDS, according to a global UN report.’
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/hiv-progress-raises-life-expectancy-africa-un
New #Biden Administration Rules Aim to Hold Insurers Accountable for #MentalHealth Care Coverage
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The regulations will force health insurance plans to collect and report more data on how they limit and deny mental health claims. ProPublica’s reporting has found that insurers regularly shortchange patients seeking treatment.
#News #Health #Insurance #Regulation #Government #Therapy
https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-administration-strengthens-mental-health-care-protections
Last year, AI boosters couldn’t shut up about how chatbots would improve healthcare, education, and become an assistant for any task imaginable.
But as more research is done on AI tools, the benefits seem illusive and the drawbacks are impossible to deny.
https://disconnect.blog/roundup-will-generative-ai-have-many-long-term-benefits/
Your blood sugar affects your mental health.
The latest research suggests that blood sugar fluctuations are partly responsible for the connection between what we eat and how we feel, and that blood sugar levels can be fuel for anxiety and depression.
This doctor and nutritionist has tips and a guide to help stabilize blood sugar levels to decrease sugar and carbohydrate intake:
https://theconversation.com/blood-sugar-fluctuations-after-eating-play-an-important-role-in-anxiety-and-depression-235008
#health #mentalhealth #nutrition
Despite Persistent Warnings, #Texas Rushed to Remove Millions From #Medicaid. That Move Cost Eligible Residents Care.
The decision to buck federal #government guidelines was one of many that led to serious repercussions for Texas residents who rely on Medicaid. Among them were #children forced to forgo or postpone lifesaving operations, #doctors say.
#News #Healthcare #Health #ACA #Covid #Pandemic #Insurance #PublicHealth
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-medicaid-unwinding-consequences
If you know of a tech company interested in sponsoring the FutureU Self Care Summit 7JAN2025 in Chicago, IL, pls LMK. I just spoke with an internationally-known individual who has agreed to serve as our keynote. Speaker CV: appeared at the United Nations; for brands like IBM, Google, Etsy, Coca Cola, McDonald’s, and institutions of learning like Yale, Harvard and Cambridge. Ideal oppty for fitness, wellness, mindset tech.
#MentalHealth #technology #tech #wellness #health #life #women
(1/2) Ep 45: Our Media Firewalls #WisdomWithWes
https://youtu.be/QQ4VdbTpbjY?si=Bmgpyfi6ncpsIRaz
Reflections on how all of us need “media firewalls” to protect our minds from polarizing and potentially upsetting information, media messages and gossip all around us.
#WisdomWithWes #wellness #health #DigitalDiet #polarization #ConCW #HealOurCulture
More episodes of my “Wisdom With Wes” videos series are available in this YouTube
Afraid to Seek Care Amid Georgia’s #Abortion Ban, She Stayed at Home and Died
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Candi Miller’s family said she didn't visit a doctor “due to the current legislation on pregnancies and abortions.”
Maternal health experts deemed her death preventable and blamed Georgia’s abortion ban.
#news #georgia #pregnancy #health #healthcare #government #politics #law
https://www.propublica.org/article/candi-miller-abortion-ban-death-georgia
Candi Miller would have turned 43 today.
Under Georgia’s abortion ban, Candi avoided doctors, deciding to navigate an abortion alone. Her death is the second preventable abortion-related death ProPublica has found.
#News #Abortion #Georgia #AbortionBan #USNews #Pregnancy #Health #Healthcare #Government #Politics
#EPA Says It Plans to Withdraw Approval for Chevron’s Plastic-Based Fuels That Are Likely to Cause #Cancer
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The decision comes after a ProPublica investigation revealed that the EPA had found that one of the fuels had a cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than the agency usually considers acceptable.
#News #Chevron #Plastic #Environment #Health #Government #Climate #Chemicals
#Georgia Judge Lifts Six-Week #Abortion Ban After Deaths of Two Women Who Couldn’t Access Care
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Abortion clinics rushed to provide care after a judge rejected the state’s ban, an order that could soon be paused by a higher court. It’s only the latest development since ProPublica reported the deaths of Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller.
#News #Health #Healthcare #Pregnancy #PlannedParenthood #WomensHealth #Law #Government #Politics #KamalaHarris #Doctors #Hospital
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If your Air Purifier suddenly stops working and you notice the change filter light illuminated , but you remember it was recently changed try this:
Take it apart, then examine and gently clean the sensor .
Reassemble and reset, then it might work again.
Francis Bacon’s Fables of Life Extension
In his retellings of ancient myths, Bacon called for research to extend human lifespans, but only if those longer lives were spent in the pursuit of knowledge.
By: Livia Gershon via @JSTOR_Daily
https://daily.jstor.org/francis-bacons-fables-of-life-extension/
American scientists have won the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of microRNAs, which regulates gene activity.
These tiny molecules are revolutionizing our understanding of gene regulation and hold promise for treating diseases like cancer.
Denialism isn't a political stance, it's a philosophical one. That's why both right- and left-wing people indulge in it.
Anybody who can be convinced that something is true against evidence otherwise is wide open to being convinced regarding denialism — of anything. HIV/AIDS, COVID, transgender, sexism, racism, etc.
Which is why political efforts to defeat denialism will never work. The only way to defeat it is through education, from kindergarten up. All age groups, all the time.
#Denialism #Climate #Racism #Bigotry #Sexism #Hate #Health #Religion #Science #Facts #Education
Can’t join us in Chicago? Check out the livestream and all-access digital version of the FutureU Self Care Summit, happening January 7, 2025.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/futureu-self-care-summit-tickets-1045453879697?
It's LIVE! HUZZAH and HALLELOO!
Please join me at the FutureU Self Care Summit, scheduled for TUE, January 7, 2025. In addition to traditional self care topics, we're including financial/worthiness breakout sessions and the impact of mis/undiagnosed #ADHD in women, as it relates to goal setting and personal fulfillment. We'll have an in-person & digital version available. Deets and 50% early bird pricing here:
#KamalaHarris announced a plan today to expand Medicare's home health care coverage for older Americans in an effort to support the "sandwich generation" caring for both kids and aging parents.
Savings from negotiating drug prices will help fund it.
Here's a quick Q&A with 2 scholars of long-term care, to assess what’s known so far about the plan:
https://theconversation.com/harris-proposes-that-medicare-cover-more-in-home-health-care-filling-a-large-gap-for-older-americans-and-their-caregivers-240865
"When you inoculate children with polio vaccine, you don’t sleep well for two or three months."
American virologist & medical researcher Jonas Salk was born #OTD in 1914. He developed the first safe & effective vaccine for poliomyelitis.
New: A #Texas Woman Died After the Hospital Said It Would be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage
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Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care.
She'd told her husband that the medical team said it couldn't act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.
#News #abortion #pregnancy #health #healthcare #government #law
https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban
#Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding #Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In.
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Lincare, the nation’s largest distributor of home oxygen equipment, has repeatedly violated Medicare rules and probation agreements, victimizing ailing patients and costing taxpayers huge sums. The federal #government has done little to stop it.
A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to #Texas Emergency Rooms
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It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a #hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened.
Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.”
She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s #abortion ban.
#News #Health #HealthCare #Pregnancy #Government #Law #Safety #Family
https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala
How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting #MentalHealth Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
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United used an #algorithm system to identify #patients who it determined were getting too much #therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due to a patchwork of #regulation.
#News #Healthcare #Health #Insurance #UnitedHealth #Medicaid #Government
