Health News

Special Medicaid funds help most states but prompt oversight concerns

09/04/2023binomo

Emanuel Medical Center in rural Georgia racks up more than $350,000 a month in losses providing health care for low-income and uninsured patients. But a new state funding proposal could significantly reduce those deficits, not just for the 66-bed Swainsboro facility but for most rural hospitals in Georgia, according to state Medicaid officials.

It’s not Medicaid expansion, which Georgian Republican leaders have rejected. Instead, the state Department of Community Health is using an under-the-radar Medicaid funding opportunity that has been rapidly taken up by more than 35 states — including most of the states that have expanded the government insurance

Peace Runners 773 uniting West Side community through holistic wellness

07/04/2023binomo

Running club providing holistic health to the West Side community

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CHICAGO (CBS) — On the West Side, one man is on a mission to bring people together through holistic wellness.

That includes mental and physical health.

CBS 2’s Jackie Kostek joined the group as they head out on a weekly run in the neighborhood.

The group met early Friday morning and got in some warmups before heading out for an eight-mile run around Garfield Park.

Jackie Hoffman who started Peace Runners 773 a couple of years ago says it’s

12% of water fixtures at PSD schools exceed state lead standards in early testing

05/04/2023binomo

Communications sent to parents can be alarming.

There’s lead in the water at your child’s school, read the emails.

Poudre School District has notified students, staff and families at 16 schools that lead levels exceeding state health and safety guidelines have been found in one or more fixtures that can be used for drinking water. Eighteen schools have been checked and received results so far.

As a result, those fixtures have been shut off until they can be tested and, if necessary, filtered, repaired or replaced to reduce the levels of lead in the water they supply.

The samples must

An Explosion in St. Petersburg Killed One of Russia’s Leading Pro-War Bloggers. Here’s Everything We Know

03/04/2023binomo

Russian police investigators inspect a damaged ‘Street bar’ cafe in a blast in Saint Petersburg on April 2, 2023 that left leading Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky dead. Credit – Olga Maltseva—AFP via Getty Images

An explosion at a cafe in central St. Petersburg on Sunday killed one of Russia’s leading pro-Kremlin bloggers, according to Russia’s interior ministry.

Maxim Fomin—known by his pseudonym Vladlen Tatarsky—was a prominent military blogger whose vocal support of Russia’s war efforts had earned him as many as 560,000 followers on Telegram.

Tatarsky was conducting a meet and greet at the cafe on the bank

People Are Using ChatGPT For Therapy. Here’s What Mental Health Experts Think About That.

01/04/2023binomo

An android robot holds its hand up to its chin while listening to a man who is laying on a couch talk — BuzzFeed News; Getty Images

Kyla Lum, 19 from Berkeley, California, started experimenting with AI and was impressed with how much it resembles having a conversation with a human. In fact, the interactions in some ways reminded her of therapy.

Because she lacked the time and money for a real therapist, Lum started using ChatGPT, the AI technology that simulates human behavior and thinkingfor mental health support, “I enjoyed that I could trauma dump on ChatGPT anytime and anywhere, for free, and I would receive an unbiased response in return along with advice on how to progress with my situation,”

mental health and wellbeing in the workplace – RoSPA Workplace Safety Blog

27/03/2023binomo

More than ever before, mental health is a topic for open discussion in the media, within our social circles and of course at work. Mental health and wellbeing is all about how we think, feel and behave, and is usually caused by a reaction to a difficult life event, which can be caused or made worse by work-related issues. In particular, working in isolation away from managers and colleagues can add stress to a workforce that is already facing a significant amount of pressure.

The scale of the problem

Globally, an estimated 264 million people suffer from depression, one of

A breakthrough offers a potential target for treating heart failure patients.