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On the Front Lines of Care Nurses, in many ways, are the backbone of the healthcare system, caring for patients The post Local Nurses Share Their Passions, Challenges, and Why They Do It appeared first on Health Care News .July 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
Medicaid programs go by so many different names across the country that advocates and experts warn people may not know they're losing their coverage until it's too late.July 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
A provision in President Trump's mega spending bill defunds Planned Parenthood. The organization says 200 clinics may close. Most are in states where abortion is legal.July 4, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
Republicans have passed President Trump's One Big, Beautiful bill, but is it built on bad faith stereotypes? The legislation guts funding for Medicaid, and for a long time Republicans have been attacking the program as sort of welfare...July 3, 2025 from Health Care News
CHICOPEE — Access Care Partners (formerly WestMass ElderCare), in collaboration with Highland Valley Elder Services, announced a new virtual offering, The post Access Care Partners to Offer Chronic Disease Self-management Program...July 3, 2025 from Health Care News
LONGMEADOW — Glenmeadow Inc., a provider of senior retirement lifestyle options, has selected Adetayo Olatinwo as vice president for Human The post Glenmeadow Names Adetayo Olatinwo Vice President for Human Resources appeared first on...July 3, 2025 from Health Care News
MONSON — Monson Savings Bank President and CEO Dan Moriarty and Executive Vice President and COO Michael Rouette, who also The post Monson Savings Bank Donates $3,000 to Scantic Valley YMCA appeared first on Health Care News .July 2, 2025 from Health Care News
SPRINGFIELD — Sparklers, grills, and firepits are staples of Independence Day celebrations — but they also come with a risk The post Before the Fireworks: What to Know About Burn Safety appeared first on Health Care News .July 2, 2025 from Health Care News
HOLYOKE — As temperatures continue to rise across the region, MiraVista Behavioral Health Center is reminding community residents who may The post Use Caution with Medications During Periods of Extreme Heat appeared first on Health Care...July 2, 2025 from Health Care News
SPRINGFIELD — Holyoke Chicopee Springfield (HCS) Head Start recently announced the 2025 recipient of its Janis Santos Scholarship. Three years The post HCS Head Start Awards 2025 Janis Santos Scholarship to Barbara Torres Marzan appeared...July 2, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
After years of litigation following the Dobbs decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court justices, with their liberal majority, ruled that the state's 176-year-old law does not ban abortion in the state.July 2, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
How would the GOP megabill that the Senate passed on Tuesday affect Medicaid coverage? Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, breaks down the changes contained in the bill.July 1, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
When a disabled young woman moved out of a hospital to her own apartment, the Trump administration celebrated — even though it's ending the federal program that made it possible.July 1, 2025 from Health Care News
PALMER — Baystate Wing Hospital was chosen as one of 10 Massachusetts hospitals to participate in a statewide Healthy Work The post Baystate Wing Hospital to Participate in Healthy Work Environment Academy appeared first on Health Care...July 1, 2025 from Health Care News
SPRINGFIELD — Health New England has committed $185,000 to fund health equity mini-grants to help address health- or healthcare-related needs The post Health New England to Award $185,000 in Grants to Address Health Equity appeared first...July 1, 2025 from Health Care News
SPRINGFIELD — In the spring of 2017, BusinessWest and its sister publication, the Healthcare News, created a new recognition program The post Nominations Being Accepted for Healthcare Heroes Class of 2025 appeared first on Health Care...July 1, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Adrianna McIntyre, assistant professor of health policy and politics at Harvard, about how the GOP spending bill before the Senate would impact Medicaid.June 30, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
The massive budget bill that Senate Republicans are debating pays for some of its tax cuts by slashing hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid spending. The latest report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates...June 27, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
Siding with the government on Friday, the court upheld the Affordable Care Act, allowing the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to continue determining which services will be available free of cost to Americans covered by the Affordable...June 26, 2025 from NPR Topics: Health Care
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has spent years spreading doubt about the safety of vaccines and linking them to autism. Dozens of studies have debunked the theory, but it has nevertheless persisted for...July 15, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Cancer researchers have completed one of the most comprehensive studies of the cells inside melanoma brain metastases.July 15, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
New research indicates the best available chemotherapy for Kaposi Sarcoma, which is infrequently used in Africa, is cost effective and would improve clinical outcomes.July 14, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
A new process, which is more effective and efficient than conventional methods, has the potential to significantly impact cancer diagnostics as well as other fields of research.July 14, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Clinical trial results suggest that a step strategy, in which patients with diabetic macular edema start with a less expensive medicine and switch to a more expensive medicine if vision does not improve sufficiently, gives results...July 14, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
A minimally invasive test was able to identify pathology in patients at different stages of disease and potentially enable earlier intervention, researchers report.July 14, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
In an analysis of medical information of more than 6,000 American adults with a history of cardiovascular disease (CVD), researchers conclude that CVD risk 'profiles' in secondary prevention have failed to improve over the last two decades.July 14, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have created a liquid biopsy test, which uses two circulating proteins, to test for major liver diseases. The test was found to be highly accurate, sensitive, and specific for both NASH and liver fibrosis.July 14, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
New research investigates consumer product-related traumatic brain injuries (CP-TBI) among school-aged children for a 20-year period by differentiating age groups, levels of education, and gender and evaluating trends with the time-point...July 14, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Resilience and a high quality of life are demonstrated by many individuals born with heart defects; however, they may face a range of health-related psychological and social challenges throughout their lives. A new scientific statement...July 13, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Using EEG to identify covert consciousness in unresponsive brain-injured patients could help predict which ones may recover, researchers have found.July 13, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed a noninvasive method to identify a potential cause of hypertension with a drastic reduction in radiation exposure, a new study shows. The fluorine-based reagent detects whether the hormone aldosterone is being...July 13, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
The treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-associated dysplasia is often challenging due to diagnostic techniques that are unable to accurately differentiate and classify the severity of neoplastic lesions. Now, researchers have...July 12, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
The study is the most rigorous and comprehensive analysis to date of scientific literature on health and spirituality. Overlooking spirituality in health care leaves patients feeling disconnected from the health care system and from the...July 12, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
There is great news to share about hospital patient safety nationally over the last decade with the largest medical record-based study ever finding a significant decrease in hospital adverse events.July 12, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Patients with a specific form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness, are at significant risk for cardiovascular disease and stroke.July 12, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Development of a precision medicine technology based on artificial intelligence that predicts immunotherapy response in cancer patients.July 12, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have identified the child cancer patients at greatest risk of developing life-threatening infections, in a crucial step towards the development of an early diagnostic test.July 12, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Offering intensive, weekly telephone-based cessation counseling along with nicotine replacement for people who smoke and who were undergoing screening for lung cancer resulted in over a two-fold greater cigarette quit rate compared to...July 11, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
A new study can help guide proper treatment course for patients depending on heart function and severity of heart damage.July 11, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have long noted a connection between opioid use disorder (OUD) and chronic pain, however brain mechanisms linking OUD and chronic pain are poorly understood. A new study has explored one potential mechanism -- central...July 7, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers found that high dose nitric oxide given to pregnant women with severe COVID-19 pneumonia resulted in reductions in the need for supplemental oxygen as well as in hospital and ICU lengths of stay, with no adverse events...July 7, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have identified an increasing trend in medicine-related harm leading to hospital admission.July 7, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists and physicians describe how wastewater sequencing provided dramatic new insights into levels and variants of SARS-CoV-2 on campus and in the broader community -- a key step to public health interventions in advance of COVID-19...July 7, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
A new study in patients reveals that two newly identified plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease can predict postoperative delirium, one of the most common postoperative complications in older patients. The findings indicate the...July 7, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
People with two pediatric-onset neurodevelopmental disorders are prescribed opioids at a rate up to five times higher than those who do not have those conditions, a new study finds. Researchers say the findings raise concerns over...July 7, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Research has uncovered strong evidence that household overcrowding is a major risk factor for acute rheumatic fever and streptococcal infections of the skin.July 7, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Intermittent fasting has previously shown to have a host of health benefits, including lowering the risk of diabetes and heart disease. Now, researchers have found that people who regularly fast are less like to experience severe...July 6, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
A new study offers evidence that transgender patients who receive gender-affirming facial feminization surgery reported better mental health after their procedures.July 6, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
Heart failure patients experiencing grief or in mourning following the loss of a close family member are at an increased risk of death, particularly during the first week following the family member's death, according to a new study.July 6, 2022 from Today's Healthcare News -- ScienceDaily
A group of public health experts from several universities and organizations is urging adoption of a multi-layered approach when developing policies to mitigate the impact of gas and oil production operations. They lay out a framework...