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Olivia Rudgard, Jack Wittels | Bloomberg News (TNS) When psychotherapist Caroline Hickman was requested to assist a baby overcome a concern of canine, she launched them to her Labradoodle, Murphy. “You get the child to feel confident in relation to the dog and teach the child skills to manage a dog,” she says. “You build the skills, build the competence, build the confidence, and then they’re less scared of dogs generally.” Climate anxiousness is a distinct beast, Hickman says. “We don’t 100% know how to deal with it. And it would be a huge mistake to try and treat it…

Elisabeth Rosenthal | KFF Health News (TNS) GoFundMe began as a crowdfunding web site for underwriting “ideas and dreams,” and, as GoFundMe’s co-founders, Andrew Ballester and Brad Damphousse, as soon as put it, “for life’s important moments.” In the early years, it funded honeymoon journeys, commencement presents, and church missions to abroad hospitals in want. Now GoFundMe has develop into a go-to platform for sufferers making an attempt to flee medical billing nightmares. One examine discovered that, in 2020, the annual variety of U.S. campaigns associated to medical causes — about 200,000 — was 25 instances the variety of such campaigns…

After residents couldn’t entry greater than half of Boston’s city-run public swimming pools final summer season, officers say extra aquatic amenities are “on track” to be open when the warmth arrives this yr. But some metropolis councilors are demanding extra motion from Boston Public Schools and Boston Centers for Youth and Families, and the Public Facilities Department, the companies that oversee the city-run aquatic amenities. Councilor Ed Flynn is pointing his frustration towards the pool closure on the Condon Community Center on D Street in South Boston. “With the pool not open, what we’re seeing is people going to cookouts…

Darius Tahir | (TNS) KFF Health News Lawmakers and regulators in Washington are beginning to puzzle over methods to regulate synthetic intelligence in well being care — and the AI trade thinks there’s an excellent probability they’ll mess it up. “It’s an incredibly daunting problem,” mentioned Bob Wachter, the chair of the Department of Medicine on the University of California-San Francisco. “There’s a risk we come in with guns blazing and overregulate.” Already, AI’s influence on well being care is widespread. The Food and Drug Administration has accredited some 692 AI merchandise. Algorithms are serving to to schedule sufferers, decide staffing ranges…

By Bram Sable-Smith, KFF Health News Christopher Marks observed an instantaneous enchancment when his physician prescribed him the Type 2 diabetes medicine Mounjaro final 12 months. The 40-year-old truck driver from Kansas City, Missouri, mentioned his common blood sugar studying decreased considerably and that protecting it inside goal vary took much less insulin than earlier than. But when his physician adopted the typical prescribing sample and elevated his dose of Mounjaro — a drug with a wholesale listing worth of greater than $1,000 a month — Marks’ well being insurer declined to pay for it. Marks had Cigna insurance coverage that he bought on…

Anya Sostek | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (TNS) PITTSBURGH — It might be a band at a marriage, an explosion on a battlefield or the fixed drone of equipment: In the United States, about 17% of adults have listening to loss attributable to publicity to loud noises. Previously, little was recognized concerning the precise mechanism by which trauma from these noises led to listening to loss. In a scientific paper revealed Monday, a Pitt analysis staff has solved a part of that puzzle, tying that listening to loss to an extra of a type of zinc within the internal ear. By capturing…

Ronnie Cohen | (TNS) KFF Health News In April, a dozen years after a federal company categorised formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to think about banning the chemical in hair-straightening merchandise. The transfer comes at a time of rising alarm amongst researchers over the well being results of hair straighteners, merchandise extensively utilized by and closely marketed to Black ladies. But advocates and scientists say the proposed regulation would do far too little, along with being far too late. “The fact that formaldehyde is still allowed in hair care products is mind-blowing to…

The Department of Public Health is increasing oversight over all 9 Steward hospitals because the well being care community stays in imminent monetary peril, officers mentioned at a Public Health Council assembly that includes a uncommon look from the governor Wednesday morning. “The bottom line is this time we do not know what the future of Steward hospitals will be,” Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein mentioned throughout a Steward replace Wednesday. “That said it’s likely that there will need to be some reorganization reconfiguration, transition and potential closures for Stewart hospitals and the healthcare they deliver.” Steward Health Care introduced…

Angela Hart | (TNS) KFF Health News States are plowing billions of {dollars} right into a high-stakes well being care experiment that’s exploding across the nation: utilizing scarce public medical health insurance cash to offer housing for the poorest and sickest Americans. California goes the most important, pumping $12 billion into an formidable Medicaid initiative largely to assist homeless sufferers discover housing, pay for it, and keep away from eviction. Arizona is allocating $550 million in Medicaid funding primarily to cowl six months of hire for homeless folks. Oregon is spending greater than $1 billion on providers corresponding to emergency…

February is American Heart Month. Considering heart problems stays the No. 1 reason behind dying for each women and men within the United States, Heart Month serves as an necessary reminder for all of us to prioritize cardiovascular well being. The excellent news is you could take motion in your each day habits to forestall coronary heart illness. Even if heart problems runs in your loved ones, a wholesome way of life is probably going extra impactful than inherited threat. Here are 5 steps you possibly can take to assist your coronary heart well being proper now. 1. Stay updated…