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A women-only mental health clinic is set to open in Aurora
Please enable Javascript to watch this video AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — A mental health clinic for women that will be staffed entirely by women is set to open in Aurora Thursday. The new unit at the HealthONE Behavioral Health and Wellness Center is located on the Medical Center of Aurora campus. It will be open …
Health needs of Yolo County residents identified in report – Daily Democrat
Mental health and addiction care, disease prevention and management, and access to basic needs like housing, jobs and food were identified as priority areas to address the evolving health needs of Yolo County residents. These findings — amongst others — were revealed Tuesday in the county’s latest Community Health Needs Assessment during a community event …
How to Maintain a Plant-Based Diet That’s Actually Healthy
In theory, switching to a plant-based diet can reduce your risk of cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and heart disease, trim your waistline, boost athletic performance, sharpen your day-to-day focus, increase your libido and improve your sleep. But if you’re eating Captain Crunch for breakfast, French fries for lunch and an extra large cheese pizza for dinner …
How do the Democratic 2020 candidates differ on healthcare?
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is the candidate most closely associated with Medicare for all. After all, as he likes to say, he “wrote the damn bill!” Sanders’ plan would do away with private insurance companies. Instead, his proposal would cover all residents, including those without legal status, under a …
NKU launches Health Innovation Accelerator; goal is to meet needs, make Commonwealth healthier
Northern Kentucky University’s Institute for Health Innovation (IHI) has launched SoCap Accelerate, a Health Innovation Accelerator for Northern Kentucky. The six-week program targets companies looking to solve a health problem in an innovative way who have a beta version of their product ready for testing. SoCap Accelerate will help these companies grow and scale their …
Coronavirus should not be cause for panic – Santa Clarita Valley Signal
While health officials want the general public to take the necessary steps to protect themselves against diseases, the coronavirus should not be a cause for panic, they said Monday. “The coronavirus should be a cause of concern, but not alarm or panic,” Jonathan Truong, an infectious disease physician with Kaiser Permanente Southern California, said …
SD County Health Department Receives $750K Grant for Dementia Research – NBC 7 San Diego
The San Diego County Health Department received $750,000 for dementia research and services from the state of California, the California Department of Public Health announced. “California has more aging people than any other state in the nation, including more people living with Alzheimer’s, other age-related brain dementias, and the people who care for them” said …
UT Health San Antonio Will Head Statewide Opioid Addiction Initiative
click to enlarge Wikimedia Commons A new UT Health San Antonio program will make addiction-treatment drugs such as buprenorphine available statewide, regardless of patients’ ability to pay. UT Health San Antonio has landed …
Corona Virus Vaccine Found in 3 Hours, Now In Clinical Trials
San Diego, CA – Inovio Pharmaceuticals, after 3 hours of DNA sequencing in it’s San diego lab has discovered the cure to the corona virus and now scrambling to produce the vaccine. After a long awaited report, Chinese scientists released the genetic sequence for the coronavirus on January 9, and researchers at Inovio and other …
Why health care AI can’t replace medicine’s human component
The AMA deliberately uses the term augmented intelligence (AI)—rather than the more common term “artificial intelligence”—when referring to machine-learning computer algorithms that hold the potential to produce dramatic breakthroughs for health care research, population health risk-stratification and diagnostic support. And there’s a good reason for that. “In health care, machines are not acting alone but …
