Friday, April 26, 2024

 

The horrors of TMJ: Chronic pain, metal jaws and futile treatments

Dentists have attempted to heal TMJ patients for close to a century, and yet the disorders remain misunderstood, under-researched, and ineffectively treated.

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Medicare’s push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors

Chronic Care Management is a federal program that, since 2015, has rewarded doctors for doing more to manage patient health outside office visits.

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FTC chief says tech advancements risk health care price fixing

Price fixing removes competition from the market and generally makes goods and services more expensive.

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Lawsuit accuses California fertility clinic of implanting dead embryos into patients

Nine couples have filed lawsuits against a Newport Beach fertility clinic, claiming their embryos were destroyed when an employee used hydrogen peroxide in an incubator instead of a sterile solution.

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Arizona House passes bill to repeal 1864 abortion ban

“Make no mistake, Arizonans are living in 1864 now because Donald Trump dismantled Roe v. Wade,” Democratic state Sen. Priya Sundareshan of Tucson said in a news conference before the vote organized by the Biden campaign and the Arizona Democratic Party.

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Gov. Newsom wants to let Arizona doctors provide abortions in California

It would apply only to doctors licensed in good standing in Arizona and their patients, and last only through the end of November. Arizona’s 1864 law banning nearly all abortions except if the mother’s life is in jeopardy takes effect June 8.

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Native Americans have shorter life spans. Better health care isn’t the only answer

“It’s almost blasphemy for a physician to say,” but “the answer to addressing these things is not hiring more doctors and nurses,” said one doctor. “The answer is having more community-based preventions.”

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Biden administration sets higher staffing mandates. Most nursing homes don’t meet them

The rules primarily address staffing levels for three types of nursing home workers. Registered nurses, or RNs, are the most skilled and responsible for guiding overall care and setting treatment plans.

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Inside an Arizona abortion clinic: uncertainty looms and optimism reigns

Abortion is likely to top voters’ concerns in Arizona, where state legislators have yet to vote on a proposed bill repealing the ban.

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Remnants of bird flu virus found in pasteurized milk, FDA says

The agency stressed that the material is inactivated and that the findings “do not represent actual virus that may be a risk to consumers.”

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Dietary choices are linked to higher rates of preeclampsia among Latinas

For pregnant Latinas, food choices could reduce the risk of preeclampsia, a dangerous type of high blood pressure.

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Doctors take on dental duties to reach low-income and uninsured patients

Programs are expanding across the United States to integrate oral health into medical checkups for children, pregnant women, and others who cannot afford or do not have easy access to dentists.

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Avian flu outbreak raises a disturbing question: Is our food system built on poop?

If it’s true you are what you eat, then most beef-eating Americans consist of a smattering of poultry feathers, urine, feces, wood chips and chicken saliva, among other food items.

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