Health Sciences North in Sudbury promotes veteran administrator to key role
Article content Health Sciences North has a new vice president of Surgical and Clinical Services. Article content Stephanie Winn, a veteran administrator who began her career as a nurse, begins her new job on Feb. 17. Winn takes over for Kelli-Ann Lemieux, who is the...
NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science
The National Institutes of Health, the nation’s premier funder of biomedical research, announced Friday night that it will immediately slash support for “indirect costs” paid to universities, medical centers, and other research grant recipients, funding that the...
The 5 Best Dry Shampoos For Women, According To Beauty Editors
Our beauty editors agree: this dry shampoo applies like a dream, revives limp oil-laden strands, and smells incredible. Even though it’s not an aerosol spray, editors found that the product dispenses powerfully, and provides full coverage in seconds. I found...
Get £5 off OK! Beauty Box’s latest selection of products perfect for a good night’s sleep
Are you dreaming of a good night’s sleep? Then OK! Beauty Box’s latest package of goodies may be exactly what you need. When it comes to sleep, Britain is far from a world leader. One in seven (14 percent) Brits survive on dangerously low levels of sleep a...
Dr Agarwal’s Health Care IPO Day 2: Check subscription status so far, GMP and new listing date
The initial public offering (IPO) of Dr Agarwal’s Health Care continued to attract a muted response from the investors during the second day of the bidding process as QIB and HNI bidders, kept at bay. The issue, which kicked off on Wednesday, January 29, was...
How light could transform eye health
Imagine if a simple beam of light could one day treat conditions like nearsightedness or age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) and the University of Washington, Seattle, have uncovered a...
An eye-opening experience
“Dr. Lavenburg noted he had never seen cataracts like the ones in Grenada,” she said. “The average cataract surgery takes 15-20 minutes, but these took double that amount of time due to limited eye care resources in the country.” But what stood out even more to...
Dean McGee Eye Institute launched 50 years ago with a vision for Oklahoma | Opinion
Dr. R. Michael Siatkowski Our story begins in 1971, when legendary Oklahoman Dean A. McGee suffered a retinal detachment and needed eye surgery. For the first time in Oklahoma history, two ophthalmologists at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center...
Herbal tea for eye health with Tracy Lake from Intersections
WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek blasted Vista Medical Center in a press conference Monday after a woman was locked out on the facility’s roof and later died. Chelsea Adolphus, 28, of Waukegan, was checked in for alcohol rehab when she left her room...
Alan Carr reveals worrying health scare as he undergoes terrifying procedure
Beloved TV funnyman Alan Carr has dished on his terrifying “health scare” and fears he is losing his sight. The 48-year-old comedian has revealed how he had to have his eyeballs drained at a specialist eye hospital and said a “spike” was stuck into his eyeball under...
Screen breaks and the right desk setup offer relief from work-related eye strain
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ NEW YORK (AP) — The trouble started every day at around 3 p.m., after Cathy Higgins had spent five or six hours staring at an array of computer screens at her desk. Her university job overseeing research projects involved peering closely at numbers...
What You Should Know About Bulging Eyes
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The 7 Best Undereye Gel Patches, Tested And Reviewed By Dermatologists And Beauty Editors
As the name suggests, this patch is meant to soothe tired-looking eyes. So, for those of you who have a lot of sleepless nights or are just night owls at heart, this is your winner. Infused with caffeine, niacinamide, and hyaluronic acid, these work overtime to reduce...
7 surprising eye exam truths that prevent blindness today
Your eyes might feel fine today, but dangerous conditions could be developing without any warning signs. Eye care professionals across the country are raising alarm bells about the rising number of preventable vision loss cases that could have been caught during...
Stewart: New Mexico’s Health Information Exchange plays significant role in modern health care
The average individual sees four health care providers per year, typically requiring the sharing of medical records between these facilities to successfully provide care to the individual. In most instances, the patient is asked to carry paper records between their...
Employee benefit costs notch healthy gains, led by health care
Along with the personal consumption expenditures data released Friday — which the Federal Reserve thinks of as a proxy for inflation — we got some granular numbers on a big factor in the prices we see on store shelves: the cost of labor. According to the Bureau of...
WA immigration advocates rally for health care, unemployment benefits
OLYMPIA — Cold hands raised monarch butterflies above the crowd on the Capitol steps Thursday afternoon. The decorated cardboard cutouts — symbolizing the dignity and resilience of migrants — were held by some of the 400 people gathered for a rally in support of...
Sanders and Kennedy Trade Barbs on Vaccines and Health Care
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lashed out at Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, sparking a heated exchange between the two at the end of the Senate health committee hearing Thursday. Mr. Sanders pushed Mr. Kennedy again on his past support for the claims that...
OPM unveils its major plans and policy goals for federal health care in 2026
OPM has issued its annual carrier call letter outlining policy goals and initiatives for the 2026 plan year. It emphasizes two main themes: streamlining how FEHB plans work to reduce friction experienced by federal employees and annuitants, and maintaining focus on...
Peoria health care providers evaluating possible impacts of Trump federal spending freeze
Illinois Congressman Eric Sorensen canceled a visit to a Peoria-area health care provider Tuesday after the Trump administration ordered a federal freeze of grants, loans and assistance that could impact the health care industry. Sorensen was going to tour Heartland...
3 Top Takeaways from Health Care 2025 Forecasts
Three things are certain in this world: death, taxes and health care predictions for 2025. Each year we review a slew of health care outlooks and, after sifting through them, here are a few of the more interesting hypotheses. 1 | Address workforce challenges and...
What DEI Bans In Colleges Might Look Like For Health Care Providers
A 2024 report on Forbes.com stated that one of the challenges that college mental health will likely face in 2025 is the impact of divisive political conflicts within our nation. An example of this challenge is the recent tendency of state legislators to pass...
Health care worker assault law could see reform this year
The Mental Health Project is a Seattle Times initiative focused on covering mental and behavioral health issues. It is funded by Ballmer Group, a national organization focused on economic mobility for children and families. The Seattle Times maintains editorial...
Health facility, BOCES partner on care effort
Sheyla Gonzalez-Colon An area health-care facility teaming with an educational partner to offer training and career opportunities for community members who speak English as a Second Language (ESL). Chautauqua Nursing and Rehabilitation Center located at 10836 Temple...
Invictus Games Athlete Mac McLaren: How Fitness Gave Him Purpose After Life-Changing Injury
I joined the army when I was 21 and served in Bosnia, Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Five years in, in 2003, I was breaking for cover while in Iraq when I turned and the lower part of my leg stayed put while the upper part rotated. My foot ended up pointing 30...
Syracuse goes red Friday to raise awareness for women’s greatest health threat
SYRACUSE, NY — Friday is National Wear Red Day and people are being encouraged to wear red to draw awareness to heart disease. Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women. “Cardiovascular disease unfairly targets women. For too long women have been...
A Brain Tumor Stopped This Guy From Doing an 8,800-Foot Mountain Climb. A Year Later, He Made It to the Top.
Matthew Stewart started an adventure climbing Half Dome in Yosemite in 2023 just like many fit 28-year-olds would: Prepared, optimistic, excited, and aware. He never expected to have to be airlifted off Half Dome for a tumor he had no idea he was harboring. A year...
How Old Are You Really? 3 New Tests Will Determine Your Biological Age
LIKE MANY OF you, especially those over 40, I envision myself as younger than my chronological age. Subjective age—how old you feel—is a thing, and people over 40 on average feel 20 percent younger. That head game is in the crosshairs of new technology that targets...
‘Fix Broken Food System!’ Government Urged as Study Says 1 in 5 Brits Affected by Diabetes
A recent analysis by charity body Diabetes UK has revealed that a sobering one in five adults in the UK – totalling 12.2 million people – are living with diabetes or pre-diabetes. This includes 4.6 million diagnosed cases, 1.3 million undiagnosed cases, and 6.3...
What Lies Ahead For Women’s Health?
The inauguration of a new administration in the White House heralds a consequential juncture for women’s health, not only within the United States but also on the global stage. Preliminary indications suggest a deliberate reversal of numerous policies instituted under...
Grim Reapers, Super Veggies, and Stem Cell IVs: Inside Bryan Johnson’s ‘Don’t Die’ Summit
AS THE WILDFIRES continue to blaze, I am at a dark, cavernous event space 20 miles away in downtown Los Angeles on a mid-January morning, raving with several hundred mortals and Bryan Johnson, the 47-year-old tech entrepreneur widely known for his multi-million-dollar...
Why You Should Stop Exercising to Lose Weight
A lot of people start out on their fitness journey in the gym for one reason: they want to lose weight. It’s the default setting, and for a lot of us uncoupling the concepts of exercise and fat loss is a near impossible feat. But if weight loss is your only motivation...
10 Days with No Reading, Writing or Eye Contact – What Really Happens When You’re on a Silent Retreat
Think a human-sized cupboard, windowless. Not great if you’re scared of dark, small spaces – or your own thoughts. I had been alone with mine for about 148 hours. When I checked into Vipassana Meditation Center – Dhamma Dharā in Shelburne, Massachusetts, USA, a week...
How does perimenopause impact women’s health?
Perimenopause is something that is often misunderstood and affects the health of millions of women worldwide. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Perimenopause is a phase of a woman’s life where the hormone estrogen drops or fluctuates, which can cause significant symptoms and...
