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Why Apple Focuses On Health And Fitness

By Shelton Muro 2 weeks ago

Health and fitness apps on the Apple Watch continue the legacy of Steve Jobs vision. — Apple continues to focus efforts on more robust health and fitness apps for its Apple Watch.

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In 2009, I discussed with an Apple exec who shared with me the impact Steve Jobs’ health crisis had on the Apple execs and many of its employees.

As we now know, in 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a disease that eventually claimed his life in 2011. Apple’s execs and other employees close to Jobs watched in dismay as they saw their beloved leader suffering through this medical crisis. Those who knew him well were deeply moved by what they saw as they sat by helplessly as his health declined.

In early 2010, Apple’s top execs made an important decision about Apple’s future. Although they were working feverishly to get the iPad to market by Q4 of that year, they started looking hard at ways that Apple could use their

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UK’s creaking COVID-19 test system puts health services at risk

By Shelton Muro 4 weeks ago

LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Britain’s testing system for COVID-19 was creaking on Tuesday as a bottleneck prevented people including medics from getting a test in a potential threat to key health services, health sector organisations said.

In an attempt to slow one of the highest coronavirus death tolls in the West, Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised in May to create a “world beating” system to test and trace people exposed to the virus.

“Our members are telling us that lack of access to testing for staff is a major barrier to them delivering services,” said Layla McCay, director at the NHS Confederation, which represents organisations across the healthcare sector.

“We are significantly concerned that some people with symptoms of COVID-19, including healthcare workers and their families, are having difficulty in accessing tests due to insufficient laboratory capacity,” she said.

Attempts by Reuters reporters to get a COVID-19 test on

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Doctors Should Watch for Punctured Lungs in COVID Patients | Health News

By Shelton Muro 1 month ago

By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter

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TUESDAY, Sept. 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Punctured lungs occur in as many as 1 in 100 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, a new study finds.

Before the pandemic, this problem was typically seen in very tall young men or older patients with severe lung disease. But some British researchers noticed that several patients with COVID-19 developed the condition and decided to investigate.

“We started to see patients affected by a punctured lung, even among those who were not put on a ventilator,” said Stefan Marciniak, a professor at the University of Cambridge Institute of Medical Research.

“To see if this was a real association, I put a call out to respiratory colleagues across the U.K. via Twitter,” Marciniak said in a university news release. “The response was dramatic — this was clearly something that others in the field were seeing.”

The researchers noted that damage

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Two men charged with targeting public employee health plans for unneeded medicine

By Shelton Muro 1 month ago

Debt collectors representing the IRS may be calling. Here’s how to know that it’s not a scam. Video by David P. Willis

TRENTON – A federal grand jury has indicted two men on charges connected to a scheme to defraud state health benefits by targeting insurance plans that paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for certain prescription compound medications, receiving benefits and commission for the prescriptions they obtained, authorities said.

Keith Ritson, 40, of the Bayville section of Berkeley, and Frank Alario, 63, of Delray Beach, Florida, are both charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, as well as conspiracy to wrongfully obtain and disclose patient’s individually identifiable health information, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito’s Office.

Alario was additionally charged with making false statements in a health care matter. Ritson was also charged with conspiring to commit money laundering and

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Fresno healthcare worker competing to be Ms. Health and Fitness

By Shelton Muro 1 month ago

A Fresno respiratory therapist is facing some heavy competition in the race for this year’s Ms. Health and Fitness.

CRMC healthcare worker competing in Ms Health and Fitness contest

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Alynn Botti has beat out hundreds of women so far to advance to the quarter-finals.

Alynn works out six days a week to stay fit, and more importantly decompress from her stressful job at Community Regional Medical Center, where she works with COVID -19 patients.

She said lifting weights has kept her balanced throughout the pandemic and emotionally sane.

“It’s just something hard to watch someone struggle with. It’s just a terrible disease and being able to come home and work out – I feel like it’s better for myself, it’s better for my family, because it’s such a good stress reliever,” she says.

Alynn works graveyard shifts, but still manages to stay motivated to workout

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Group fitness classes extended at Canalside, MLK Park through September | Health

By Shelton Muro 1 month ago

BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York, forced to start its outdoor group fitness classes late this summer because of the coronavirus pandemic, will continue them through September.

“It’s important to us to provide our neighbors with options to enhance their health and well-being,” Julie R. Snyder, chief marketing and communications officer with the health insurer, said while making the announcement Thursday.

Classes at Canalside and Martin Luther King Jr. Park typically end on Labor Day weekend. They typically start after Memorial Day.

This year has been anything but typical.

More than 12,500 people in the region have so far tested positive for the coronavirus, thousands got sick and more than 860 died.

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5 Food ‘Hacks’ a Men’s Health Editor Uses for Easy Muscle Gain

By Shelton Muro 2 months ago

a man standing next to a woman: Sink your teeth into our new video series, which focuses on easy-to-digest fitness tips. First up: easy meal tips for quicker gains

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Sink your teeth into our new video series, which focuses on easy-to-digest fitness tips. First up: easy meal tips for quicker gains

Leave the cryo chambers, altitude sleep therapy and blood flow restriction to the pros: when it comes to building muscle, the simplest advice is often the most effective. Which is why Men’s Health UK has taken to TikTok to provide smart, digestible and effective advice for anyone looking to improve their health and fitness.

In a recent video, available on our account here, Men’s Health UK fitness editor Andrew Tracey shares a handful of food ‘hacks’ that will help you build muscle, get leaner and stay satiated. Rest assured, there are no protein shakes in sight, nor are there any plastic containers loaded with boiled chicken and broccoli. Instead, Tracey walks you through his easy tips for gaining muscle that won’t empty

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Researchers argue health care systems should use ‘food as medicine’ interventions

By Shelton Muro 2 months ago

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An analysis recently published in the British Medical Journal argues for increased implementation of “food is medicine” interventions in the health care system. The article was co-authored by Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, who mostly recently argued in the New England Journal of Medicine that food insecurity is known to be a health equity issue that disproportionately affects racial/ethnic minorities and those with lower incomes and rural communities. Thus, food insecurity is now playing a big role in the COVID-19 pandemic and associated health outcomes.

Berkowitz has conducted a number of studies on health-related social needs and their effect on health outcomes, published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Sarah Downer, JD, from the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School is the first author of the BMJ study, along with Timothy Harlan,

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COVID-19 puts health research to the test in Africa

By Shelton Muro 2 months ago

Bockarie says that the peculiar odds presented by the COVID-19 pandemic may be in favor of Africa’s developing vibrant research infrastructures across the continent.

For instance, “a bane of Africa has been the un-equitable North/South collaborations, so-called helicopter scientific adventures, which make a sweep of a site/center/institution in Africa, collect the samples, and dash out to their bases, with little attribution to local researchers, communities, local policymakers, etc.,” Kariuki tells Nature Medicine.

But with no clear path yet for the resumption of international travel, ‘helicopter science’ is made trickier, which clears the path for local researchers to fill the gap. Kariuki says that the African Academy of Science is working with partners, including the UK Collaborative on Development Research, “to attain collaborations that are truly equitable across the globe.”

Bockarie also notes that research capacity will not be strengthened substantially without meaningful prioritization by policymakers. Stakeholders who are deciding

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DVIDS – News – Leadership changes hands at Naval Branch Health Clinic Key West and Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Unit Key West

By Shelton Muro 2 months ago

KEY WEST, Fla. ─ Cmdr. Valerie Littlefield relinquished charge of Naval Branch Health Clinic Key West and Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Unit Key West to Cmdr. Connie Braybrook during a ceremony aboard Naval Air Station Key West on Aug. 21.

Capt. Teresa Allen, Naval Hospital Jacksonville commander and Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Jacksonville commanding officer, presented Littlefield with the Meritorious Service Medal for outstanding meritorious service in performance of her duties as officer in charge (OIC).

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ceremony included face coverings, social distancing, and a limited number of participants.

Littlefield, a Nurse Corps officer and native of Dallas, Texas, served as the clinic’s OIC from May 2018 to August 2020. Prior to that, she served as Naval Medical Center San Diego’s senior nurse officer for the mental health directorate and department head for inpatient mental health.

Under Littlefield’s leadership, the clinic’s 73

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