The Mediterranean Diet: Good for your health and your hip pocket
We’ve heard it time and time again — the Mediterranean diet is great for our health. But despite the significant health benefits of this eating plan, a common deterrent is often the expected costs, especially when budgets are tight. Now, new research from the University of South Australia shows that the Mediterranean diet is not […]
Return of Rule Nixing Delivery of Rx Drugs to Medicare Patients Drawing Docs’ Ire
Community oncologists are up in arms about a little-known consequence of the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE): the return of a rule barring them from mailing or home-delivering chemotherapy drugs to their Medicare patients. The rule comes from a nine-page Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document published in September 2021 on the federal […]
Tori Spelling: Mold Is ‘Slowly Killing’ My Family
Tori Spelling’s mold situation has her fearing for her family’s health and safety. The “Beverly Hills, 90210” actor turned to Instagram to ask for help handling a household mold problem that she said has been “slowly killing” her loved ones “for three years.” “Does anyone know how [to] find a Major Great MOLD lawyer in […]
AI Poses Serious Threats to Health and Human Existence, Researchers Say
Despite the potential for negative health outcomes with the use of artificial intelligence (AI), most research is biased toward its benefits, without sufficient consideration of effective regulations that would be needed to avoid those harms, according to an expert analysis. There are three key threats the technology poses to human health and well-being, including upending […]
Medicaid Expansion Seen Lifting Colon Cancer Screening for Low-Income People
CHICAGO — Colorectal cancer screening rates at so-called Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in 2021 were higher in states that had accepted funding from the federal government to expand access to Medicaid compared with those that had not, a researcher said here. But the data also suggested that Medicaid expansion didn’t eliminate all financial barriers […]
WHO Says COVID-19 Is No Longer A Global Emergency
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least 7 million people worldwide. WHO said that even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn’t […]
‘Ghost’ Provider Networks a Big Problem for Patients, Especially in Mental Health
WASHINGTON — Nine years ago, Keris Jän Myrick had a problem: she got a new job in a new state, and with it, new health insurance, and she needed to change her mental health provider. “Navigating the Blue Cross Blue Shield for federal employees provider directory to find a psychiatrist in the D.C. or Maryland […]
World Health Organization Fired Top COVID Scientist Over Sex Misconduct
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it has fired the scientist who led a high-profile delegation from the U.N. health agency to China two years ago to jointly look into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, citing sexual misconduct. Peter Ben Embarek, who led the WHO side of a joint team with scientists […]
Opinion | ‘Melatonin Is Not Equivalent to a Warm Glass of Milk’: What We Heard This Week
“Melatonin is not equivalent to a warm glass of milk.” — Pieter Cohen, MD, of Cambridge Health Alliance in Somerville, Massachusetts, discussing the high rate of mislabeled melatonin gummies. “Doctors were much more neurotic than the other groups.” — Mehdi Ammi, PhD, health economist of Carleton University, in Canada, after finding that doctors tended to […]
Rapper Desiigner Seeking Mental Health Care After Allegedly Exposing Himself On Plane
Desiigner says he is checking into a facility for mental health care after allegedly exposing himself to a flight attendant. On Thursday, TMZ reported that the incident occurred as the “Panda” rapper returned to the U.S. over the weekend on an international flight, with Desiigner writing on Instagram that he is putting his career on […]