Prescription drug use is at record highs, with about 19 prescriptions filled for every American in 2020, amounting to 6.3 billion prescriptions.1 Though the figure is staggering, it appears to be getting worse for the next generation. U.S. girls born in 2019 may spend 60% of their lives on prescription drugs, while boys may spend… Read More »
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Four in 10 adults in England have become fatter during the pandemic, a survey suggests. BBC News – Health
Revealed: Just 50% of care home staff have been vaccinated in London borough where nursing home is at centre of South African Covid variant outbreak Ten residents and 13 staff infected with the South Africa variant at a single care home in Lambeth, London Outbreak is thought to have been triggered by someone who travelled… Read More »
‘I lost three and a half stone and now realise life is so much more than weight’ Independent.ie Six months ago I started down the path to health and as write this, my final instalment, I feel a huge sense of pride in my achievement. With my elate.ie team beside me every step of the… Read More »
Benefis Health System, a nonprofit, independent health system based in Great Falls, Montana, serves a 38,000 square mile region with many very rural communities. This means the health system has many patients looking to access care. Further, the health system has nearly 300 employed providers, so scheduling patients with providers across multiple locations can be… Read More »
THURSDAY, April 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) — The death rate for older Americans receiving dialysis for kidney failure may be nearly twice as high as widely thought, according to a new report. For the study, researchers looked at 391 Medicare patients, aged 65 and older, who started dialysis, in which a machine is used to… Read More »
According to the latest statistics1 by the American Heart Association (AHA), nearly half (48 percent) of all American adults have some form of cardiovascular disease (CVD) — a classification that includes high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, heart failure and stroke — and deaths from CVD are again on the rise, after decades of being… Read More »