Editor’s note: This column, a repeat from last year, is a follow-up to the previous Health Care Buzz column.
Several adults are either on Traditional Medicare/TM already or are looking to move to Medicare as they turn 65 and have many questions about: Will Traditional Medicare always be the primary insurance after 65? Is there ever a time it won’t be? Great questions and as always, there are multi-layered answers.
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Instacart CEO Fidji Simo launches her health care side hustle
Good morning, Broadsheet readers! The battle over mifepristone continues, Taylor Swift vetted FTX better than the pros, and Fortune senior writer Maria Aspan talks to Instacart’s CEO about getting her health care startup off the ground. Happy Thursday.
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Manitoba wants 150 new family doctors for the province, and recruitment specialists to find them
Shared Health is looking for outside help to address the severe physician shortage in Manitoba.
The organization that co-ordinates health care in Manitoba is seeking as many as three external firms to recruit an additional 150 family physicians to the province: up to 50 each in Winnipeg; the northern health region and Churchill; and the rest of rural Manitoba.
“Evolving population health needs, systemic issues, changes in how new medical graduates want to practice, and an increasing proportion of the physician workforce approaching retirement have all contributed to a need to increase the number of family physicians practicing in Manitoba,”…
Minnesota startup creates disposable hijab for Muslim health care workers, patients
ST. PAUL, Minnesota — After spending months working in clinics and hospitals across the U.S. at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yasmin Samatar and Firaoli Adam had grown tired of having to constantly change their hijabs throughout the day.
[–As health care workers, Samatar and Adam, both Muslim, are required to wear protective equipment that limits the spread of disease. Unfortunately, existing equipment could not adequately conceal their head coverings, forcing them to change into a new hijab every day, sometimes multiple times a day, during 12-hour shifts.
[–They conjured the idea to create a disposable hijab…
Register Today for the 2023 WSKW Conference – PHE America
The Fall 2023 Annual Conference for the Western Society for Kinesiology & Wellness (WSKW) will be on Thursday, October 5th – Friday, October 6th in Oakland, CA.
If you haven’t registered yet, don’t delay — register TODAY!Conference Registration:
Faculty: $150
Students: $50
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The 2023 program will include presentations from across the breadth of kinesiology and will provide opportunities to engage and learn with colleagues. The conference will incorporate poster presentations, oral presentations, round table discussions, and panel presentations.
Conference Notes:
This year’s conference theme is: The Future Is You
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The Supreme Court of Canada won’t hear appeals involving private health care. why?
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The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear a challenge of a British Columbia law intended to preserve public health care through measures against extra-billing and certain private insurance.
Two Vancouver private health facilities and four patients argued that provisions of the Medicare Protection Act violated their constitutional rights due to long waits for care in BC’s publicly funded system.
They said it amounted to a breach of the patients’ life, liberty and security of the person under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Easy Homemade Deli Meat – Maria Mind Body Health
I’ve had recipes for decades using deli meat such as my protein noodle lasagna, protein spare chips, protein noodle pad Thai, protein noodle soup and even enchiladas! But through the years, my favorite healthy brands started to add fillers and sugar. That’s why I needed to write a recipe and I wanted an easy recipe for homemade deli meat!
The recipe for making homemade deli meat was intimidating to me at first. Then my new friend Aubrey, who came on my keto trip to Greece, sent me step by step photos. We keep in contact and text almost daily. She…
Free Online Coaching Clinic – PHE America
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Don’t miss Georgia Southern Coaching Education’s next FREE online coaching clinic on Thursday 1/19/23 at 7pm eastern in partnership with the Minority Coaches Association of Georgia.
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SaJason FinleyMS, SCCC, USAW-II, RPR-I, FMS, PN-IRole: Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Central Phenix-City HSTopic: 4 Pillars Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Recovery
Bridget MeltonEd.D., CSCS*D, TSAC-F*D, CEP, cPT, FMS 2Role: Professor at Georgia SouthernTopic: Concepts of Improving Upper Body Mobility
Joseph Myricks, M.Ed, USAW Level 1Role: Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Alexander High SchoolTopic: Do The Most: Maximizing Time and Space with YOUR Resources
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