(Headline USA) A Massachusetts hospital released a video this week warning it might deny care to patients who use “unwelcome words” to talk about race and gender, the Daily Mail reported.
The video from Milford Regional Medical Center’s website features Peter Smulowitz, the hospital’s chief medical officer, announcing that the hospital will be implementing a new code of conduct to guarantee an “inclusive” environment.
“Everyone should expect a safe, caring and inclusive environment in all our...
ABC NEWS – Malia Obama, the eldest daughter of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama, made her red carpet debut at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
The 25-year-old, whose short film "The Heart" was one of many featured at the festival, stepped out in a gray coat with a matching thin, gray scarf and dark brown boots for the film's premiere at Prospector Square Theatre in Park City, Utah, Thursday.
Malia directed...
Euronews – "Disease X" is a name that the World Health Organization (WHO) has given to an unknown future pathogen with the potential to start a severe global epidemic.
"There are things that are unknown, that may happen and anything happening is a matter of when, not if," Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general, said during an expert panel in Davos this past week.
"So we need to have a placeholder for that, for the...
WORLD NEWS GROUP – As 2024 begins, it becomes ever more clear that the question “What does it mean to be a human being?” will continue to be the pressing issue of the moment.
It’s also evident that those who put their trust in princes and who look to politicians to play the adults in the room and set things straight will be very disappointed.
In an age of televisual and social media, politicians cannot afford...
KFF HEALTH NEWS ORIGINAL STORIES
In This Oklahoma Town, Most Everyone Knows Someone Who’s Been Sued by the Hospital
Hospitals nationwide face growing scrutiny over how they secure payment from patients, but at one community hospital, the debt collection machine has been quietly humming along for decades. (Mitchell Black and Noam N. Levey, 1/19 )
Insurance Doesn’t Always Cover Hearing Aids for Kids
California’s governor vetoed a bill extending insurance coverage for kids with hearing loss, but most states now...
Mayo Clinic News Network – Winter weather changes can negatively affect the skin — the body's largest organ.
Colder temperatures and a lack of moisture in the air can damage unprotected skin, especially on the face and hands.
Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute
They're the wounds in an annual battle with dry winter air.
"When the temperature drops, the humidity tends to drop with it," says Dr. Dawn Davis, a Mayo Clinic dermatologist. "And, so, naturally your skin dehydrates."
Dr. Davis...
ESPN, LOS ANGELES -- Country music star Reba McEntire will grace next month's Super Bowl stage to sing the national anthem while Post Malone will perform "America the Beautiful."
The performances will take place Feb. 11 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas before the championship matchup and halftime show featuring Usher.
McEntire, a three-time Grammy winner, has become a country music icon with more than 30 studio albums that include a variety of hits such as...
MEDPAGE TODAY – Amid pushback regarding several of the U.S. News & World Report rankings, including those for medical schools and hospitals, the question of payment for use of the company's logo has resurfaced.
A recent report from the New York Times entitled "U.S. News Makes Money From Some of Its Biggest Critics: Colleges," detailed how the company sells "badges" to colleges, "so they can promote their rankings."
Exactly how many hospitals continue to use the...
An American Airlines flight attendant, Estes Carter Thompson III, was arrested on Thursday. Prosecutors said he had surreptitiously recorded five girls as they used the lavatory on flights in 2023.
TODAY – Two fans of Madonna filed a lawsuit against the singer on Jan. 17, accusing her of "false advertising, negligent misrepresentation and unfair and deceptive trade practices," after she started her Brooklyn, New York, concerts hours late in December.
The suit says that the singer showed up more than two hours late to her shows on Dec. 13, 14 and 16, 2023, leaving concertgoers waiting for hours and "confronted with limited public transportation, limited...
THE NEW YORK TIMES – “Put on your masks!”
My son and I were cycling during the pandemic when a passerby furiously screamed that in our direction.
I shouted back something too long about updated recommendations on masking outdoors and was left yelling into the wind, my kid giving me the “Calm down, Mom” look.
We all had our uncalm moments during the pandemic. What rankled me during this one was that the science was on my...
(Matthew Doarnberger, Headline USA) Residents of Boston’s high-crime Roxbury neighborhood are protesting the closure of a local Walgreens drug store, citing the adverse impacts to minorities already suffering disproportionately from serious medical ailments.
“The communities where they’re closing these pharmacies are communities where people are disparately impacted by disease two or three times higher rates in cancer, diabetes, heart disease,” said former Boston NAACP president Michael Curry, according to CBS News. “… Life expectancy can be 15, 20 years less.”
The closure, the...