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Health care costs target of Indiana policy proposals
<a href="https://dailyjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/132148096_web1_icc-health-care-costs.jpg" data-caption=" Whitney Downard | Indiana Capital Chronicle “> Whitney Downard | Indiana Capital Chronicle Lawmakers continued to wrestle with Indiana’s high health care costs Thursday, determining which state actions would be effective to strengthen a free market. Two national experts testified virtually before the committee to share what other states had done and…
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Program at UT Health San Antonio helps Latino caregivers
SAN ANTONIO — Playing cards is just one of the many activities mother and son Sarah Cadenas and Thomas Brittain take part in. It’s keeping Cadenas’ mind occupied. Cadenas has Alzheimers, and Brittain is her caregiver. “When I’m making breakfast and doing stuff, she’ll start to color, and we got the Lotería there,” Brittain said. Latinos…
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Mitch McConnell says he’s ‘completely recovered’ from health issues
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said he’s fully recovered from health issues that led him to freeze in public and he prodded House GOP members to agree on a new speaker to end the paralysis of the US legislative branch. Questions about the 81-year-old McConnell’s health have lingered since he suffered a serious fall at…
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AHIP: Proposed Mental Health Parity Rule Should Not Be Finalized
AHIP, an advocacy organization for insurers, believes that the mental health parity rule proposed in July has several “flaws” and should not be finalized, it wrote in a Tuesday comment letter to the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor. The proposed rule builds on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act…
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Georgia Southern University’s Center for Public Health Practice and Research at the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health receives $4 million grant
Georgia Southern University’s Center for Public Health Practice and Research at the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health received a $4 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to provide targeted technical assistance to rural hospitals nationwide. The funding will support the team’s implementation of the Targeted Technical Assistance for Rural Hospitals Program…
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Hood College celebrates formal opening of health sciences school building
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } Officials and Hood College leaders gathered Friday morning to celebrate the formal opening of a facility housing the Ruth Whitaker Holmes School of Behavioral and Health Sciences. The Holmes school, launched last year, has taken over space at 700…
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Amherst inventor unveils new wheelchair at Senior Center Health Fair
Amherst inventor unveils new wheelchair at Senior Center Health Fair <!– –> News > Local <span class="lightgalleryimg" data-src="/getattachment/0f2d846e-a87b-43d3-a089-c94f1ebb676d/amhealthfair-hg-101823-ph1" data-sub-html="Marvin Glover demonstrates Realchair, a proof-of-concept prototype patented in May 2022, during last week’s second annual Amherst Senior Center Health Fair at the Bangs Community Center. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS “> Marvin Glover demonstrates Realchair, a proof-of-concept prototype…
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How does childhood shape the middle-aged brain? Bogalusa Heart Study aims to find out
Fifty years have gone by since schoolchildren in Bogalusa began lining up outside a white trailer serving as makeshift clinic to collect health data. The purpose: to understand the connection between childhood health factors and the risk of developing heart disease. Twelve hundred-plus studies later, the Bogalusa Heart Study has evolved beyond its initial focus. Now,…
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Public health v. civil liberties: The debate over legalizing weed in Ohio
While public health and safety organizations express concerns about Issue 2, a proposal before voters to legalize recreational marijuana in Ohio, advocates say current laws simply criminalizing cannabis aren’t working and the state would be better served regulating it instead. There is no official “Vote No” organization on the measure. But opposition has mounted over…
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Skateboarding film wins plaudits for focus on mental health
Skateboarding may be more usually associated with riders refining their tricks in urban parks or cruising along sun-dappled beachside promenades. But the British professional skateboarder Barney Page went for something very different – a gruelling road trip of almost 1,000 miles from John o’Groats in Scotland to Land’s End in Cornwall. A film detailing Page’s…
