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Unite Us Partners with Healthix and Regional Outreach Networks to Improve Quality of Life for New York City and Long Island Residents

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Unite Us Partners with Healthix and Regional Outreach Networks to Improve Quality of Life for New York City and Long Island Residents

NEW YORK, July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Unite usthe nation’s leading software company enabling cross-industry collaboration to improve people’s health and well-being, and Healthixthe largest public health information exchange (HIE) in the nation it serves CNY AND Long Island, are collaborating to address the drivers of health (DOH) in partnership with key social care networks … Read more

Transforming everyday health, one app at a time

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Transforming everyday health, one app at a time

Patients, even those with serious conditions, can be empowered to have greater control over their health through a combination of monitoring, awareness and diagnosis along with education, treatment and prevention. With our digital solutions, we can help improve healthcare outcomes for patients, says Timothy Broke-Smith, vice president of global pharmaceutical partnerships at Huma. We accelerate … Read more

More potent than SSRIs Scientists develop two new drug candidates that could treat addiction and depression

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Brain mental health boost concept

Scientists have developed two new drug candidates, inspired by a traditional African psychedelic medicinal plant called ibogaine, that can potentially treat addiction and depression in mice by targeting the serotonin transporter. These compounds mimic the desirable effects of ibogaine without its side effects, and more testing is underway to explore their therapeutic potential. The targeted … Read more

Biden takes aim at Trump’s health care policy

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Friday already?! Here’s what we’re looking at as we prepare for lawmakers to return to Washington next week. Biden moves to limit ‘junk insurance’ President Joe Biden on Friday proposed a series of initiatives intended to reduce health care costs, including new restrictions on short-term insurance plans that critics are calling “junk” because they can … Read more

Biden reverses Trump’s expansion of ‘junk’ health care plans.

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President Joe Biden comments on his plan to protect Americans' access to affordable health care in Virginia Beach, Virginia on February 28, 2023.

WASHINGTON President Joe Biden is cracking down on what the White House calls junk health insurance plans, which is less robust, short-term coverage that the Trump administration has expanded as a cheaper alternative to Obamacare plans. Insurance rules set out in the Affordable Care Act, for example, require plans to cover pre-existing conditions. That’s not … Read more

Antibiotic shortages could worsen the syphilis epidemic

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In an undated image from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis. (NIAID via The New York Times)

In an undated image from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis. (NIAID via The New York Times) A new shortage of a type of penicillin crucial for fighting syphilis is alarming infectious disease experts, who warn that a prolonged shortage of the drug could worsen the … Read more

“Nature’s Ozempic” has a rather gross side effect

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Berberine Natures Ozempic.jpg – Credit: PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY Matthew Cooley. PHOTOGRAPHS USED IN ILLUSTRATION FROM Adobe Stock; Getty On social media, The supposed wonder drug that’s on everyone’s lips at the moment is Ozempic, the drug created to treat type 2 diabetes that’s now being used as a weight-loss treatment. But with access to Ozempic … Read more

With Medicaid cuts, can Oklahoma avoid the health disaster?

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Medicaid discontinuation began April 30. Nationwide, as many as 24 million are projected to lose Medicaid coverage, according to estimates by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

More than 300,000 Oklahomans are projected to lose their Medicaid coverage in the next nine months, and increased awareness will be the only way to avert a potential health care catastrophe. This is in addition to the more than 623,000 uninsured in Oklahoma. The state must reduce enrollments in its Medicaid program, known as SoonerCare, … Read more