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How to Choose the Right Yoga Mat
If you have been practicing yoga for many years, you likely started with a basic mat, which was pretty much the only thing available. Now, however, there are numerous options for yoga mats suitable to everybody, age, and skill level. But how do you know which yoga mat...
8 Daily Dental Hygiene Tips for a Healthy Smile
Having a healthy smile makes you feel good about yourself and your appearance. A healthy smile is attained by maintaining a daily routine of visiting the dentist, brushing your teeth twice per day using fluoride toothpaste, flossing, and visiting the dentist. Your...
Oakland Bicycle Injuries Decrease
Cycling is one of the best ways to get around in Oakland. It is one of the most efficient ways to travel while being green and healthy. If you haven't tried it, you're missing out. However, some people choose not to ride bicycles due to safety concerns. While bicycle...
New Accident Statistics are Available for Kentucky
Motor vehicle accident data can help state and city officials develop a plan to make roads safer for all drivers, which is why it’s important to analyze the most recent accident statistics for Kentucky, and specifically, Lexington. When you take a closer look at the...
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Mother given wrong antibiotics died from sepsis
Bank cashier Aleisha Rochester died two weeks after undergoing a routine procedure to remove an abscess. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source
Maternity inquiry chair named in government U-turn
Donna Ockenden is appointed to lead the maternity services inquiry at Leeds hospitals. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source
Banks Are Becoming Bulwarks Against Scams for Vulnerable Seniors
The first call came just before Thanksgiving last year. She didn’t recognize the phone number, but she answered anyway. “The person said he was an officer of the Department of Criminal Investigations looking into drug trafficking and money laundering,” the woman...
More Kids Are in ERs for Tooth Pain. Trump Cuts and RFK Jr.’s Anti-Fluoride Fight Aren’t Helping.
Eight-year-old Jonah woke up one May morning with a swollen face and a toothache. He refused the pain medication that his mom, Geneva Reynolds, tried to give him. He didn’t sleep or eat and cried constantly. Within a few days, Reynolds became so desperate that she and...
Newsom Picks a Dogfight With Trump and RFK Jr. on Public Health
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has positioned himself as a national public health leader by staking out science-backed policies in contrast with the Trump administration. After Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired Centers...
Florida Hasn’t Expanded Medicaid. Lawmakers Want To Add Work Requirements Anyway.
In states that have long refused to expand Medicaid to more low-income adults, people in the program aren’t subject to new rules under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act requiring them to prove they’re working in order to get and keep coverage. That’s not stopping Florida...
Sent 90 miles after giving birth while ‘soaked in urine’
A spokesperson for NHS England in North East and Yorkshire said: "MBUs are commissioned as specialised services and based on concentrated clinical expertise, which is achieved by operating from a single, well-resourced unit - in this case, Leeds. This model supports...
NHS England pauses new prescriptions of cross-sex hormones for under-18s
The health service said young people who already receive the drugs will continue to do so. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source
Journalists Explain a Spat Over Sugary Coffee and How Measles Fools Doctors
KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam discussed excited delirium on Vox Media Podcast Network’s Criminal on March 6. On CBS News’ CBS Mornings on March 5, Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the Massachusetts...
Relying on drugs to stop obesity would be ‘societal failure’, says Chris Whitty
Speaking at the Medical Journalists' Association annual lecture, Sir Chris said he was worried about obesity as there is an "optimal weight" for healthy living, with larger waistlines increasing the risk of cancers, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and infections....
This Doctor-Senator Who Backed RFK Jr. Now Faces a Fight for His Job — And His Legacy
BATON ROUGE, La. — The ambitious liver doctor would go just about anywhere in his home state to give people the hepatitis B vaccine. Bill Cassidy offered jabs to thousands of inmates at Louisiana’s maximum-security prison in the early 2000s. A decade before that, he...
The People — And Research — Lost in the NIH Exodus
‘No Longer Based on Facts or Truth’ Sylvia Chou, 51, Maryland Program director, National Cancer Institute (Eric Harkleroad/KFF Health News) Sylvia Chou specializes in communication between patients and their health care providers, and social media’s role in public...