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Airplane noise can affect sleep: study
Anyone who has been on a long flight can confirm airplanes don’t make it easy to get some shut-eye — but according to a new study, you don’t have to be on a plane for them to be the cause of a poor night’s sleep.
The study published last month in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives found women who were exposed to even quiet airplane noises were more likely to get less than seven hours of sleep a night.
Researchers say it sheds more light on how this ambient noise level affects those who live near airports or in
Special Medicaid funds help most states but prompt oversight concerns
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
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
A number of insiders bought Plant Health Care plc (LON:PHC) stock last year, which is great news for shareholders
It is usually uneventful when a single insider buys stock. However, When quite a few insiders buy shares, as it happened in Plant Health Care plc’s (LON:PHC) case, it’s fantastic news for shareholders.
Although we don’t think shareholders should simply follow insider transactions, we would consider it foolish to ignore insider transactions altogether.
See our latest analysis for Plant Health Care
Plant Health Care Insider Transactions Over The Last Year
In the last twelve months, the biggest single purchase by an insider was when Non-Executive Chairman Christopher G. Richards bought UK£75k worth of shares at a price of UK£0.12 per
More walking and exercising may help protect brain health
- The absence of effective treatments for dementia underscores the importance of strategies, including maintaining a healthy lifestyle, to attenuate the risk factors for dementia.
- Studies have shown that higher physical activity levels and lower sedentary behaviors could reduce the risk of dementia. However, such studies have generally relied on self-reports with limited accuracy.
- A recent study using accelerometers to accurately measure physical activity levels showed that moderate-to-vigorous physical activity
Community workers fan out to persuade immigrant seniors to get covered
OAKLAND, Calif. — For three years, Bertha Embriz of San Francisco has gone without health insurance, skipping annual wellness exams and recently tolerating a broken molar by trying not to chew with it. As an immigrant without legal status, the 58-year-old unpaid caregiver knew that California’s Medicaid program was closed to her.
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That changed in May, when California expanded Medi-Cal — its Medicaid program for residents with low incomes — to adults 50 and older, regardless of immigration status. The problem was that Embriz didn’t realize she would be eligible until she attended a community meeting in San Francisco.
Atrium Health site down after Killnet hacking threat
Atrium Health’s website experienced outages Monday afternoon as a Russian hacking group shared a threat against the Charlotte-based health care system and other US groups.
The company’s “hospital systems and patient portals” weren’t affected, Atrium said.
Killnet listed Atrium Health’s Cabarrus County location in a post on the social media platform Telegram along with more than a dozen other hospital systems, Observer news partner WSOC reported.
Killnet is a pro-Russian hacking group known for its cyberattacks, primarily on European governments and infrastructure. They commonly use “denial of service” attacks to disrupt business, Politico previously reported.
Denial of service attacks “occur