Washington, D.C., United States (KaiserHealth) – Chronic pain – the kind that lasts for months or recurs regularly – afflicts more than a quarter of adult Americans. Treating pain can be extremely challenging, however, in part because it can’t be measured with instruments. It’s in the eye – or neck or joint – of the [...]
Washington, D.C., United States (KaiserHealth) – Chronic pain – the kind that lasts for months or recurs regularly – afflicts more than a quarter of adult Americans. Treating pain can be extremely challenging, however, in part because it can’t be measured with instruments. It’s in the eye – or neck or joint – of the [...]
DAKAR, Senegal (IRIN) – As polio strikes more and more people in Chad – 68 cases so far this year – tens of thousands of children are unprotected largely due to flaws in how vaccination campaigns are run. Recent infections have made Chad the country with the highest number of cases worldwide, according to the [...]
Madia, Mindanao, Philippines (IRIN) – Rain and flooding over the past month have severely affected thousands of farmers who have recently returned to their homes in conflict-affected Mindanao. Farmer Sandatu Kalug, 58, from the village of Madia in Maguindanao, the worst affected province, told IRIN: “I had just planted my field… Now I’ve lost everything.” [...]
Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor San Marcos, CA, United States (AHN) – A 14-year-old Girl Scout who was one of the group’s top sellers of their famous cookies died after collapsing at a middle school dance. Sabrina Keller, 14, was celebrating the end of 8th grade with 250 classmates at Woodland Park School [...]
Washington, D.C., United States (KaiserHealth) – While the health care law has survived Republican efforts to repeal it, some of its individual initiatives are in limbo or limping along because of funding problems. The law authorized the new efforts but didn’t provide appropriations for them. That has to occur separately – and given current deficit [...]
The new programs unveiled June 8 focus on the management and collection of batteries, antifreeze, cellphones, expired medications and mercury-containing thermostats, said the province. View full post on All Stories
The Missouri Foundation for Health said Tuesday it has made emergency grants totaling nearly $500,000 to 14 health-focused nonprofits in response to the April tornado in St. Louis County, spring Mississippi River flooding in southeast Missouri and the tornado that hit Joplin in May. A total of $270,196 in flood assistance grants went to six [...]
The state’s mental hospitals do not properly monitor patient medications and have an error rate significantly higher than other institutions, a state audit sparked by a CALL7 investigation found. View full post on All Stories
Sacramento, CA, United States (KaiserHealth) – Short on cash and time, officials in California and at least a dozen other states have turned to philanthropies to help pay for the extra work required under the federal health law. Nowhere do the ties between private health foundations and state government run deeper than in California, where [...]
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