Health News
Pima County Health offering free blood pressure screenings for Valentine’s Day
PIMA COUNTY, Ariz. – Pima County Health will offer free blood pressure screenings to the surrounding community at it’s various locations for Valentine’s Day on Friday. Pima County has joined the Million Hearts initiative to help prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes nationwide by 2022. Pima County Health is encouraging the public to join the Love …
New drop-in mental health clinic to open in Sandusky Co.
FREMONT, Ohio — A new mental health clinic offering a more casual and open therapeutic approach will soon be opening in Fremont. The National Alliance of Mental Illness, or NAMI, chapter in Sandusky County is behind drop-in clinic that will be located on Castalia Road. The clinic is possible through a partnership with the Great Lakes …
Health Officials – NBC New York
What to Know There are currently no coronavirus cases in New York City, according to city health officials. As of Wednesday, the six city residents that were under observation for possible coronavirus all tested negative for the disease. One New York City non-resident also tested negative, according to the city’s health department. There are no …
Fed Chair Jerome Powell calls out massive US health spending, says Americans are ‘getting nothing’ in return
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Fed Chair Jerome Powell said at a Senate hearing on Wednesday that Americans are “getting nothing” in return for what the US spends on healthcare. “The outcomes are perfectly average for a first-world nation, but we spend 6 to 7% of GDP more than other countries. So it’s about the delivery. That’s a …
CVS Health Tops Q4 Profit Forecast, Sets Tepid 2020 Guidance
CVS Health Corp. (CVS) – Get Report posted stronger-than-expected fourth quarter earnings Wednesday but forecast 2020 profits that fell modestly shy of Wall Street forecasts. CVS said adjusted earnings from continuing operations for the three months ending in December were pegged at $1.73 per share, down 19.1% from the same period last year but 5 cents ahead …
‘Taking steps to health care transparency’ | Northwest
PULLMAN — The president and founder of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories said SEL has partnered with Pullman Regional Hospital to help it be more transparent with health care costs. “Health care is probably the only thing that we buy without knowing what the price is,” Edmund O. Scwheitzer said Tuesday during a monthly Pullman Chamber of …
OC’s Chief Health Officer Provides Coronavirus Update, Says Flu Greater Risk Currently – NBC Los Angeles
Orange County’s chief health officer told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday the county faces a much greater risk from the flu than the coronavirus that has killed more than 1,000 people, mostly in China, but “all of the science on this is changing rapidly.” The virus, which was renamed COVID-19 on Tuesday by the World …
Snapchat’s new mental health tool will offer helpful intervention
Snapchat is launching a search tool called Here For You that will surface “safety resources” from mental health experts when users search for sensitive topics like anxiety, depression, suicide, and bullying, the company announced Tuesday. For instance, if a user searched for “thinspo” (content that may skew to be pro-anorexia), the search results would “intervene” …
Health official: No confirmed cases of coronavirus in Gregg County
GREGG COUNTY, Texas — Test results from a recent patient at a Longview emergency room came back negative for the coronavirus, Gregg County officials said Monday. Despite rumors to the contrary over the weekend, Gregg County remains free of the virus, authorities said, and state and local health authorities said no confirmed cases of coronavirus …
Health notes | News, Sports, Jobs
The Vindicator prints area Health Notes each Tuesday. Events should be open to the public and hosted by a nonprofit organization. To submit Health Notes, email to society@tribtoday.com or mail to 240 Franklin St. SE, Warren, OH 44483. DOWN SYNDROME BANNERS: The Down Syndrome Association of the Valley is supplying free inclusion banners …
