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Dangerous Roads in California
According to the National Safety Council, tens of thousands of people die in traffic-related crashes and accidents every year. A high number of related fatalities in California often cause the state to rank on lists about the nation's most dangerous roads. The...
Modesto Car Accident Study
A recent study analyzed the car accidents in the city of Modesto and the surrounding cities in Stanislaus County. The findings give in sight to the most dangerous days and times to drive in the Modesto area. They also serve as a warning to all drivers. Traffic...
Causes of Increase in US Pedestrian Accidents
Since 2010, pedestrian deaths are up 77% according to the Governors Highway Safety Association data. Why did over 7,500 people die while walking or jogging on a roadway last year? Every day, on average, 20 Americans walk along a roadway and are killed by a vehicle. In...
Why It’s So Hard to Change Our Habits
X Reasons Why We Find It So Hard to Change Habits If you've done something a certain way your entire life, it will be incredibly difficult for you to change your pattern of behavior around it. This ranges from directly harmful habits, like routinely consuming harmful...
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Why are sperm donors having hundreds of children?
7 hours agoShareSaveJames Gallagher,Health and science correspondentandCatherine Snowdon,Health reporterShareSaveGettySome men are having vast numbers of children through sperm donation. This week the BBC reported on a man whose sperm contained a genetic mutation that...
Rural Health Providers Hit by $100K Trump Visa Fee
More than 30 people have applied for a lab technician job at West River Health Services in Hettinger, North Dakota, a thousand-person town in the rural southwestern part of the state. Because they aren’t U.S. citizens, they would each need a visa. West River and other...
Operations and treatments cut back as NHS orders hospitals to save money
13 hours agoShareSaveNick TriggleHealth correspondentShareSaveGetty ImagesAccess to hospital treatments is being restricted in many areas of England as the NHS struggles to balance its books, the BBC has learnt.Regional health boards have ordered some hospitals to cut...
What the Health? From KFF Health News: Crunch Time for ACA Tax Credits
The Host Congress is running out of time to avert a huge increase in health care premium payments for millions of Americans who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. Dec. 15 is the deadline to sign up for coverage that begins Jan. 1, and some...
‘Super flu’ wave hits hospitals in England with no peak yet
1 hour agoShareSaveNick TriggleHealth correspondentShareSaveGetty ImagesThe number of patients in hospital in England with influenza has risen by more than 50% in the past week, with NHS bosses warning there is no sign of "super flu" peaking yet.In the week up to...
Flu in four charts – how this year’s winter outbreak is different
2 hours agoShareSaveJim Reed,Health reporterandWesley Stephenson,BBC VerifyShareSavePA MediaThe NHS says it's facing its "worst-case scenario" after the number of people in hospital with flu jumped by 55% in a week.NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey has warned...
Trump Rules Force Cancer Registries To ‘Erase’ Trans Patients From Public Health Data
LISTEN: “People get better care when we know who they are.” That belief is at the heart of why scientists and LGBTQ+ health advocates oppose a new rule that makes it harder to collect data on trans patients with cancer. KFF Health News correspondent Rachana Pradhan...
Wheelchair? Hearing Aids? Yes. ‘Disabled’? No Way.
In her house in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Barbara Meade said, “there are walkers and wheelchairs and oxygen and cannulas all over the place.” Barbara, 82, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, so a portable oxygen tank accompanies her everywhere. Spinal stenosis...
Why is flu so bad this winter – and should you buy a vaccine?
3 hours agoShareSaveMichelle RobertsDigital health editorShareSaveGetty ImagesFlu has come early this winter, and experts predict it could be a particularly nasty season because of a new mutated version of the virus which is circulating. The NHS has already sent out a...
Flu wave hits England’s busiest A&E – hundreds of patients are arriving a day
13 hours agoShareSaveChloe Hayward,BBC NewsandHugh Pym,Health editorShareSaveBBCAt England's busiest emergency unit, all the beds are full by midday.As one patient leaves his room at Leicester Royal Infirmary's acute unit, cleaning staff are waiting outside.He is...
Last minute offer may avert strike by resident doctors
Next week's strike by resident doctors in England may be averted after ministers offered the British Medical Association a fresh deal.The doctors' union has agreed to put the offer to members over the coming days - if they support it, the five-day walkout starting on...
Plan-Switching, Sign-Up Impersonations: Obamacare Enrollment Fraud Persists
Florida resident Keith Jones says his Affordable Care Act insurance plan was changed multiple times this year without his permission. Now the 52-year-old is struggling with his health problems while facing large premium bills he says he shouldn’t owe. The third time,...