Mandy Cohen, who led North Carolina’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, is President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In this role, Cohen, who served for five years as the secretary of the state’s department of health and human services, will now lead federal efforts to track and manage health problems and diseases.
Biden made the announcement Friday, saying he chose Cohen because she is “one of the nation’s top physicians and health leaders with experience leading large and complex organizations, and a proven track-record protecting Americans’ health and safety.”
Cohen is replacing Rochelle…
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Tentative deal halts strike action by thousands of Manitoba health-care workers, days before deadline
Strike action by about 6,500 rural paramedics and emergency dispatch, respiratory therapists, lab and diagnostic technologists, and other allied health professionals throughout Manitoba will not go as planned this week, after Shared Health reached a tentative agreement in principle with their union, the provincial organization announced on Monday.
On June 1, the Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals (MAHCP) threatened strike action if it did not accept a new collective agreement by 8 am on Thursday.
Members had voted 99 per cent in favor of a strike mandate in April. Their union said earlier this month that members had gone…
Vancouver urgent care clinic suspends some services over legal battle with health authorities
The day before Vancouver’s first urgent and primary care center opened in 2018, the provincial government held a news conference celebrating the facility as a step toward improving the quality of health-care in the city.
“We want people to get the care they need in their community,” Health Minister Adrian Dix said that Sunday.
Less than five years later, that relationship has soured.
The clinic is deep into a legal battle that it says has ultimately forced doctors to stop providing patients with ultrasounds, X-rays and other critical diagnostic tests, despite having the equipment to do so in-house.
“Unfortunately, when…
Monty Williams says his wife’s health was priority, almost keeping him from taking the Pistons job
2023 NBA Playoffs – Denver Nuggets v Phoenix Suns
From the outside, Monty Williams’ decision to coach the Detroit Pistons next season was made by the Brinks truck they backed up to his house — six years, a reported $78.5 million.
For Williams, it was far more personal and tied to his wife Lisa’s diagnosis with breast cancer, something he opened up about in his introductory press conference.
Williams said he planned to take a season off care for his wife and be with his son Elijah, one of the top high school players in his class. However, positive news…
BC health authority at the center of legal battle
An ugly legal battle between one of BC’s biggest health authorities and a medical services provider in Vancouver is threatening to alienate medical providers and disrupt patient care.
Vancouver Coastal Health is trying to appoint a receiver to sell Seymour Health’s two urgent and primary care centers (UPCCs), after which the company racked up millions of dollars in debt following the health authority’s decision to throttle payments for medical diagnostics, which the centers performed anyway . As a result, thousands of non-urgent patients were diverted from emergency departments and the company fulfilled one of the core goals of the UPCC…
Which Diet (way of eating) Is Best for Health and Longevity?
Proper diet undoubtedly promotes healthier aging and longevity. But what’s the right diet? A meta-analysis of diet studies proposes an answer. or more accurately, answers, based on diet-related biomarkers linked to disease and aging. Half of the studies were done in Europe, the rest from North America and Asia. The February, 2023, article was published in Nutrients. You can read the entire article online.
“….the main goal of this systematic review was to perceive the quantity and quality of different diets or aspects in nutrition, how they could modulate biomarkers and prevent aging-related diseases, in order to enlighten new intervention…
A windfall in health insurance rebates? It’s not as crazy as it sounds
“Americans will get $1.1 B in rebates from health insurance companies this year cuz of a provision I wrote in the ACA.”
[–Former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), in a tweet on May 17, 2023
[–Former Democratic Sen. Al Franken tweeted recently that Americans will receive “$1.1 B in rebates from health insurance companies this year” because of a provision he wrote into the Affordable Care Act.
[–The tweet prompted many comments, including some from people who said they had never seen such a check from their insurers. That got us wondering: Is Franken’s tweet correct and, if…
Guelph Rotary Club donates $300,000 towards a youth mental health facility
‘This money is really about intervention and prevention…we’ve got all these services available so that if a youth does tip over, it’s a warm transfer,’ said Cyndy Dearden, former executive director of the Grove
GUELPH ‒ Access to mental health resources for local youth has become a little easier thanks to a significant financial donation from the Rotary Club of Guelph.
Donating $288,000 to The Grove Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario- Wellington Guelph during a celebratory event and luncheon, all money will go towards supporting the construction of a new youth wellness site on Woolwich Street, which will open in the…