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Cano Health (NYSE:CANO) Shares Down 6.1% on Insider Selling

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Cano Health, Inc. (NYSE:CANO – Free Report)’s stock price dropped 6.1% during mid-day trading on Monday after an insider sold shares in the company. The stock traded as low as $1.30 and last traded at $1.31. Approximately 1,336,473 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 79% from the average daily volume of 6,493,378 shares. The stock previously closed at $1.39.

Specifically, insider Richard Aguilar sold 275,940 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, June 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $1.29, for a total value of $355,962.60. Following the completion of the

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Quinoa Beet Salad – JennifersKitchen

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Let me be very clear. I do not like beets. I’ve spent over fifty years disliking beets.

I’ve tried them boiled (gag-inducing), roasted (almost tolerable, but no), raw (the additional chewing required just prolongs the misery), and picked (where’s the bathroom?).

To me, beets taste like garden dirt laced with a little bit of sugar. Interestingly, there is validity to that perception. Beets contain a naturally-occurring compound called geosmin, and geosmin gives beets their dirt-like . . . er. . . earthy flavour.

Some people like this earthy flavor.

I’m not one of them.

Just as interesting – at least

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Digital Healthcare Market Stabilizes After Year of Low Investment

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CB Insights has released their State of Digital Health Report for Q1 2023, and there is finally some good news to report. After four quarters of declines in funding in the digital health space, global digital health funding held steady in the first quarter of this year at US$3.4 billion. This is positive news to see stabilization after a year of continuous decline, and the first time funding did not drop quarter to quarter since Q4 of 2021.

They do point out that this is not a trend in overall venture capital funding, but rather something

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Ohio EPA mosquito control grants, Kelly Park library, lightning safety

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Ohio EPA awards grants to 46 local agencies for mosquito control

COLUMBUS — Forty-six local health departments and municipalities across 41 Ohio counties, including Crawford County, are receiving $816,000 in grants from the Ohio EPA for mosquito control activities. The funding includes $127,000 to remove scrap tires, which can become breeding grounds for mosquito larvae. The grants will help mitigate the spread of mosquito-borne viruses such as Zika, West Nile, and La Cross encephalitis.

In Northwest Ohio, 11 county and city health departments are receiving grants. Among them are Richland Public Health ($14,980), the Shelby City Health Department ($11,700), the

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Breathing in bad air: The health costs of climate change and wildfires

sarah28/05/2023 23 Views

Smoke from Alberta wildfires is pushing its way across Canadian provinces, darkening the spring sky and fouling the fresh air.

The sun glows an unmistakable amber, alerting everyone that fire season is here — much earlier than many anticipated, including fire officials themselves.

Harold Larson’s parents were forced from their rural community of Evansburg, Alta., earlier this month.

They have since returned home to the community west of Edmonton, but Larson’s mind is not far from the men and women fighting the fires on the front lines. He used to be one of them.

“I traveled all around Canada and

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Israeli airstrikes on Gaza kill 21 Palestinians: Health Ministry

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Gaza, May 11 (IANS) At least 21 Palestinians were killed and 64 were injured in the continuing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, said the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza.

Ashraf Al-Qedra, the ministry’s spokesman in Gaza, said in a press statement sent to reporters on Wednesday that 21 Palestinians were killed, including 12 civilians, and 64 others were injured by the shrapnel of the Israeli missiles, the Xinhua news agency reported.

The Gaza-based joint chamber of military operations of Palestinian factions claimed firing a barrage of rockets to southern and central Israel on Wednesday, in response to the surprising

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Gun violence is ‘a public health crisis’

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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra confirmed in a statement Thursday that an employee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was one of the victims of a shooting in Atlanta on Wednesday.

“Last night, we learned the tragic news that Amy St. Pierre, an HHS colleague at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was the victim of a senseless shooting in Atlanta, Georgia,” Becerra said in a statement. “Our hearts go out to her husband Julian St. Pierre, her children, and all her loved ones at this difficult time.”

He said that her work

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Long COVID risk likely lower from a second infection than a first, study finds: Shots

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Long COVID — lingering symptoms that can follow a COVID diagnosis — plague millions of Americans. It may be less likely after a second bout of COVID than after a first. For those living with it, it can be debilitating. Judy Schafer, 58, met with a group of other women with long COVID via Zoom, at her home in Seattle, Wash., in January.

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Long COVID — lingering symptoms that can follow a COVID diagnosis — plague millions of Americans. It may be

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