health care

Protein Sparing Chai Ice Pops

Violin10/07/2023 53 Views

It’s funny how there are many recipes that my family enjoys weekly but I have never written recipes for them. These protein sparing chai ice pops are one of them. My son Kai begs for these ice pops all the time!

They are so easy to make, we always have them in the freezer. I love that I have an easy protein-packed treat for my kids (and myself!) when hunger strikes!

HOW TO MAKE PROTEIN SPARING CHAI ICE POPS

To make Kai’s protein sparing chai ice pops, I used Equip vanilla Prime Protein powder!

It works great for making recipes

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Health Care

Some plastics get a second life through the Mayo Clinic’s recycling facility – Post Bulletin

Violin02/07/2023 49 Views

ROCHESTER — Like most industries in the 21st century, health care uses a lot of plastic. On a single day, Mayo Clinic’s Rochester facilities generate 60,000 pounds of waste, with plastic making up a good portion of that heap.

“One surgery generates the amount of waste that a family of four generates in a week,” said Angie Dalenberg, operations manager for Mayo Clinic Environmental Services.

While some of that waste heads to the Olmsted Waste-to-Energy Facility or the Mayo Clinic’s own Waste Management Facility for incineration, several types of plastic — along with cardboard, paper, metal, electronics and more —

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Unvaccinated healthcare workers hope to go back to work

Violin27/06/2023 51 Views

Sandy Hartman is frustrated. She’s not allowed back to work at the London Health Sciences Center because she’s not been vaccinated against COVID-19.

“At this point in time, the policy is outdated, and I’m hoping we can see some changes,” said Hartman.

A staff nurse at LHSC for the past 12 years, Hartman, who is eight months pregnant, has been put on an unpaid leave of absence by the hospital because of her vaccination status.

She believes the softening of other COVID regulations recently, like mandatory masking and patient screening, means she should be allowed to return to work.

“We’re

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Health Care

These Western med students started a website to simplify the health-care system for newcomers

Violin24/06/2023 51 Views

Three medical students at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry have started an online resource center that provides culturally-specific health information for newcomers and refugees to Canada.

The Newcomer Health Hub (NHH) educates community members and frontline health care workers on how to treat the complex health challenges newcomers may have, using evidence-based information tailored to their unique needs.

Third-year students, Lotus Alphonsus, Theshani De Silva, and Penelope Neocleous started NHH to advocate for and empower newcomers to take control of their own health.

“In medical schools, refugees are treated as one group and what we’ve noticed is

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Health Care

Nebraska groups create health sciences pipeline program for young students

Violin22/06/2023 47 Views

A group of Nebraska health care associations and educators are going back to the beginning to address the state’s health care workforce shortage.

The Nebraska Health Careers Pipeline Program will create a hands-on, interactive health sciences curriculum for students in third through 12th grade that can be deployed in schools across the state.

Stacey Ocander, dean of health careers at Metropolitan Community College, said participants are finishing the curriculum now and will begin training this fall, working with existing after-school providers to deliver the lessons.

In January, they will pilot one-hour weekly lessons — with activities — for students in

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Health Care

Readers’ letters, Victoria Times Colonist, June 9, 2023

Violin19/06/2023 80 Views

Island Health is working to improve health care

Re: “A new ER reality — a drop in standards of care,” commentary, June 3.

As noted in the commentary, the health system is especially busy and we’re seeing more patients requiring emergency care and more people needing hospital admission.

Emergency department physicians and staff are supporting these higher volumes while we work with hospitalists (physicians who provide care to most hospital-admitted patients) on workload, recruitment and retention concerns.

Significant additional work is underway to address some of these current challenges related to high patient volumes.

We are taking action to reduce

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Health Care

Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. (NASDAQ:SBRA) Receives Average Rating of “Reduce” from Brokerages

Violin14/06/2023 55 Views

Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. (NASDAQ:SBRA – Get Rating) has received a consensus recommendation of “Hold” from the eleven rating firms that are presently covering the company, Marketbeat reports. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell recommendation, six have given a hold recommendation and one has given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 12-month price target among brokers that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $12.72.

SBRA has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Wells Fargo & Company assumed coverage on Sabra Health Care REIT in

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Health Care

There’s One Big Obstacle to Convicting Trump: South Florida

Violin12/06/2023 62 Views

The decision to prosecute Donald Trump in South Florida appears to be centered around keeping the case airtight and avoiding a potential retrial—but it’s also one that could cost the Department of Justice a conviction at all.

For starters, the court district’s supposedly “random” assignment wheel placed the case in front of Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee who previously tried to derail this very investigation.

And at the tail end, prosecutors will inevitably face a stark reality when seeking 12 impartial judges at a trial: Florida’s increasingly right-wing politics. Florida’s embrace of MAGA politics—as well as

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