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BC ends mask mandate in health-care facilities and proof of vaccination for long-term care visitors

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British Columbia is ending its universal mask mandate in health-care settings, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced Thursday.

Masks will still be required in certain higher-risk areas and for patients with COVID-19 symptoms who are seeking health care, Henry said from Victoria.

The vaccine mandate for health-care workers remains in effect.

“We’re at a point now where we can change some of the restrictions in health-care settings,” said Henry from Victoria. “Masking remains a very important tool in the health-care setting, and health-care workers will still wear masks based on their risk assessments.

Visitors to long-term care and assisted

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NUTEX HEALTH ANNOUNCES THAT IT HAS ENTERED INTO A $100 MILLION PRE-PAID ADVANCE AGREEMENT WITH YORKVILLE ADVISORS GLOBAL LP

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Published: Apr. 11, 2023 at 4:43 PM EDT|Updated: 3 hours ago

HOUSTON, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Nutex Health Inc. (“Nutex Health” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: NUTX), a physician-led, technology-enabled integrated healthcare delivery system comprised of 20 state-of-the-art micro hospitals in 8 states and primary care-centric, risk-bearing physician networks, today announced that it has entered into a $100 million pre-paid advance agreement with Yorkville Advisors Global LP

“We are pleased to announce this funding from Yorkville which we believe is a strong endorsement of our work to deliver high-quality, efficient and accessible healthcare,” stated Tom

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Sleep apnea causes cognitive problems even in healthy men, research finds

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Most people with untreated sleep apnea develop heart disease, and researchers have assumed that’s why they also have cognitive problems. But a small new study finds that obstructive sleep apnea itself is harming the brain, giving new urgency to recognizing and treating the disorder.

Otherwise healthy middle-age men newly diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea show poorer mental function in areas such as judgment, impulse control and recognizing other people’s feelings compared to men without the condition, according to research published Thursday in Frontiers in Sleep.

Obstructive sleep apnea, the most common form, occurs when the throat muscles relax and airways

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Fox News Host Confronts Lindsey Graham on GOP’s Abortion Position

sarah09/04/2023 21 Views

Fox News host Shannon Bream pressed Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, on Sunday about whether the GOP’s message on abortion was “costing the Republican Party.”

Anti-abortion advocates celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which last June overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that previously guaranteed reproductive rights to women across the United States, as a major victory. The ruling allowed states to make their own laws regarding the medical procedure, with many Republican-led states quickly moving to either ban or place significant restrictions on abortion in the months following the ruling.

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Alzheimer’s first signs may appear in your eyes, study finds

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The eyes are more than a window to the soul — they’re also a reflection of a person’s cognitive health.

“The eye is the window into the brain,” said ophthalmologist Dr. Christine Greer, director of medical education at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Boca Raton, Florida. “You can see directly into the nervous system by looking into the back of the eye, toward the optic nerve and

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NYC policy forces some unsheltered people to receive mental health care

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America’s overall homeless population is smaller today than it was a decade ago, but many of them are more people choosing the streets over public shelters. Over the past several years Since 2015, there has been a big rise of 35% increase in an unsheltered population that includes sleeps in tents, tarps, boxes, cars and public transportation.

According to the latest estimates by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, more than 233,000 people are living on streets across the country — a source of heartache or frustration for many.

Local leaders nationwide have promised a fix, especially after a

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Some Alberta doctors have anti-Indigenous biases: Survey

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The Metis Nation of Alberta says many of its members have experienced racism when accessing Alberta’s health-care system.

“Rather than risk being discriminated against or feeling less than… They’re choosing not to go,” said Reagan Bartel, director of health for the Metis Nation of Alberta.

“Our community feels that very deeply, that physicians are above and Metis people are below, and that’s not a good place to be when you’re seeking help.”

A survey of Alberta doctors backs up some of those concerns.

Researchers at the University of Calgary sent the survey to every licensed doctor in the province in

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US Life Span Falling Behind Our Peer Countries

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March 6, 2023 · 7:29 AM

From NPR:

The average life expectancy for Americans is shortened by over seven months [in 2021]according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That decrease follows an already big decline of 1.8 years in 2020. As a result, the expected life span of someone born in the US is now 76.4 years — the shortest it has been in nearly two decades.

But we still have the best healthcare system in the world, right? Not if you judge it by life expectancy. From Health System Tracker:

Life expectancy in the

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