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Why Is Your Skin So Good Do you ever see someone on Instagram and think, Why is your skin so good? We do, so we started asking. Photo: Courtesy of Carla Oates Long before people were talking about the microbiome and searching for the perfect bowel movement in the name of beauty, Carla Oates was aware of the link between the gut and skin. "I had eczema as a child and a teenager, and at about 13, my mom eliminated certain foods from my diet and introduced other foods," she says. "So from a very young age, I saw the connection between what we put into our body and our skin." But it especially hit home when her own daughter experienced eczema at the age of 10 and she stumbled across research that looked at the connection between certain types of bacteria and eczema allergies. "As I explored that link further, I decided to put my family on a gut-healing protocol. That includes taking some of the digestive irritants and foods that cause a ...

There's a new angel at the helm of Franklin County Health Agency, a "New England girl" at heart with a passion for French. "This is a very nice match for me," said Andrea Patrick-Baudet, Franklin County Home Health Agency's new CEO. "To come from such a mission-driven organization to come to a place with a similar philosophy." Currently, Patrick-Baudet is the Chief Clinical Officer of the Granite VNA in Concord New Hampshire, but originally she studied French language as her primary focus. When she and her husband began their family, Patrick-Baudet chose a new career in nursing and found a very deep connection in hospice work. "I have long felt that I am a clinician first and foremost," Patrick-Baudet said. "And death, like birth, is a really intimate and precious time." Patrick-Baudet recalled memories she's spent caring for and loving clients in their final moments, listening to them sing, pray, or even just be...

The COVID-19 public health emergency has solidified the home as a viable and effective care setting. That, in turn, has led to meaningful opportunities for home-based care providers, especially those with diversified service lines. Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) is a prime example. The company's leadership team discussed the pandemic and its lasting impacts during William Blair's annual growth stock conference on Wednesday. "Pre-COVID, there was an ever-increasing move to the home environment," Dirk Allison, CEO and chairman of Addus, said during the event. "COVID has certainly accelerated that momentum." Advertisement Addus is specifically seeing plenty of new opportunities on the home health side of its business, which continues to draw more referrals, Allison explained. "I think there are a lot of opportunities," he said. "I don't think that's going to slow down." Headquartered in Frisco, Texas, A...

If you're looking for a home security system without a ton of bells and whistles, the Ring Alarm 8-Piece Home Security System is an easy-to-use DIY choice—especially now, while it's 40% off. Two things to note: It doesn't have a dedicated glass-break sensor, and it works only with Amazon Alexa (which is important to keep in mind), but the package does come with a base station, a keypad, a motion detector, a range extender, and four contact sensors. If you're serious about your security, you can sign up for Ring's no-contract 24/7 live-monitoring plan; starting at $10 a month, it's the most affordable plan we found.

PANAJI: The Chest and T B hospital at St Inez, since the past two months, has been seeing an increased number of patients coming for further treatment post recovering from Covid, as they are at risk of developing lung fibrosis. About 20% of the hospital's beds have been occupied by patients having post-covid respiratory complications, head of pulmonary medicine, GMC, Dr Durga Lawande said. The hospital has 80-beds. It also caters to non-Covid diseases such as tuberculosis, multi-drug resistant TB, Chronic Obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and many other types of respiratory illnesses. "Obviously, there has been a rise in patients needing treatment after their ecovery and we treat them so that they don't develop post-Covid lung complications or fibrosis. Many of the beds are getting filled with such patients," Lawande said. Patients who had severe Covid-19 pneumonia and were on ventilators will mostly require further hospitalisation to cut their risk of going into p...

Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that can pass through the air between people. When it affects the lungs, the medical name for this is pulmonary tuberculosis. It can cause chest pain, severe coughing, and a range of other symptoms. Tuberculosis (TB) bacteria mainly grow in the lungs, but they can infect other parts of the body. Miliary TB is an advanced form of the disease that develops when the bacteria spread through the bloodstream to infect organs beyond the lungs. In this article, we look into the symptoms, causes, and treatment of pulmonary TB. We also describe the outlook and when to see a doctor. Symptoms of TB can develop slowly and may vary. The main symptoms of pulmonary TB include: a bad cough that lasts for at least 3 weeks chest pain coughing up blood or phlegm from the lungs breathlessness More general symptoms of TB can include: weight loss a loss of appetite nausea and vomiting low energy or fatigue fever and chills night ...

Globally, an estimated 10 million people develop tuberculosis (TB) each year and the disease remains a leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. Standard short-course anti-TB treatment still requires a regimen of at least six months of antimicrobial drugs, and drug-resistant TB is an increasing public health threat. Even after the traces of TB disease are quashed, patients often suffer from significant sequelae, such as lung scarring. TB survivors have approximately three to four times greater mortality than their local population. In pulmonary TB, the most common form of active TB disease, the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria causes the formation of sites of high bacterial load, known as cavities. These cavities are poorly penetrated by TB drugs. After TB treatment is complete, there is likely to be tissue damage within the lungs that can lead to further lung problems such as permanent respiratory dysfunction leading to difficulty in breathing, stiffness in the lungs...

If you buy through our links, we may earn money from affiliate partners. Learn more. As the final day of Amazon Prime Day 2021 starts to come to a close, we're still monitoring the best deals so far, from a comfy pillow to huge discounts on the Instant Pot and Roborock S6 robot vacuum. So far, one of the biggest deals we've spotted is for the 23andMe Ancestry + Health Kit at $99 (normally $199, so 50% off). We consider this to be the best DNA kit for health data because it offers over 40 reports on carrier status reports (including information about whether you carry gene mutations for various inherited diseases) as well as over 10 health dispositions. It can also help you assess your genetic risk for diseases like type 2 diabetes and Parkinson's disease.  While a 23andMe test can't tell you everything (a positive result doesn't mean you're exempt from any potential health problems, and a negative result doesn't guarante...

Save up to 40% off on kits and 20% on memberships to AncestryDNA this Father's Day.   (Photo: Reviewed / Jackson Ruckar) — Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed's editors. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. Father's Day 2021 is just over a week away (it's  Sunday, June 20,  in case you forgot), and while there are plenty of gift options that are sure to make dad jump out of his easy chair for joy, there's one unique present that will not only make him smile, it will honor his heritage. Enter: the AncestryDNA Father's Day sale. Amazon Prime Day 2021 is right around the corner! Want to know how to get the best deals?  Attend our free, virtual How to Hack Prime Day live event. RSVP now. From now through the holiday, the website is featuring two major discounts: 40% off on its popular AncestryDNA kits and 20% off gift memberships. That means that standard kits, which provides DNA matches and traces family or...

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Photo courtesy Coast Guard MANASQUAN INLET, N.J. — The Coast Guard medically evacuated a man from a tugboat approximately 10 miles north of Manasquan Inlet on Friday. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay Command Center in Philadelphia received an alert that the individual was suffering from abdominal pain while aboard the tugboat Saint Emilion. The Delaware Bay Command Center consulted with a Coast Guard flight surgeon who recommended medical evacuation for the individual. A 47-foot Motor Life Boat crew from Coast Guard Station Manasquan Inlet launched to meet the tugboat. Once on scene, the MLB boatcrew successfully removed the crewman from the vessel and transferred him to emergency medical services that were waiting on scene at the Station. 

Part 135 operator GrandView Aviation will be Embraer's launch customer for a convertible medevac interior STC that the Brazilian airframer developed for its Phenom 300 light twinjet. "With the Phenom 300MED conversion, our aircraft can transition from a passenger cabin interior to medevac in a matter of hours, allowing for maximum operational efficiency," said GrandView COO Jessie Naor. "We already operate diverse missions, and the Phenom 300MED further adds to our ability to meet a wide variety of client needs." Aerolite provides the equipment for the Embraer Phenom 300MED's cabin. (Photo: Embraer) Aerolite will provide the equipment for the Phenom 300MED's medevac interior. The installation will be performed at Embraer's service center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. "We are sure this will be the first of many conversions around the world," said Marsha Woelber, Embraer Service & Support's head of worldwide executive jets cu...

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Author of the article: Vincent McDermott Helicopter pilot Paul Spring, who owns Phoenix Heli-Flight and the Local HERO foundation, on June 3, 2016. Greg Southam/Postmedia Network Article content A provincial report is recommending the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service, or STARS, become Alberta's dedicated helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) provider under the plan. The 30-page report also recommends folding STARS' dispatch into the centralized EMS dispatch system that the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB) is fighting in court. It is not mentioned if organizations already providing this service, such as the Fort McMurray-based Local Helicopter Emergency Response Organization (Local HERO), would still play an EMS role if the Alberta government turns this recommendation into policy. Paul Spring, president of Local HERO, said the organization would likely dissolve. "Looking at the recommendati...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFNS) -- AFWERX Agility Prime and new partner Kitty Hawk reached a milestone in May with their first operational exercise. "This exercise produced important data that will bolster the program going forward," said Lt. Col. Martin Salinas, the mission design team lead in the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center . The technology and companies in the AFWERX Agility Prime program continue to mature rapidly with a new partner Kitty Hawk joining the government/industry team. In the program's first exercise, a diverse group of industry and government operators, engineers, and test professionals assessed the ability to do medical evacuation, personnel recovery, and logistics with Kitty Hawk's Heaviside electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, aircraft. The Kitty Hawk team also demonstrated Heaviside's remote flying capabilities. The multi-disciplinary team gathered a rich catalogue of data to inform dual-use utili...

What's Up, Doc? is a weekly health segment on WROK sponsored by MercyHealth. Each week they highlight a different doctor/healthcare professional to come on our show and talk to us about their specialty. It has turned into one of our favorite segments. All of our doctors have exhibited a "human" side that people don't always get to see with their physicians. We encourage you to check out some of our past episodes here. We've done about 30 of these segments highlighting everything from Lyme disease to hernia repair to finding a health care plan and everything else in between. We've learned a lot and hope you can too. Our guest this week was Dr. Rebekah Collins-Conkright. She works at the internal residency clinic at MercyHealth here in Rockford. Dr. Collins has a fascinating history. Her medical journey took her from Michigan to Portland, to the Caribbean, to England, to right here in Rockford. We're glad she landed here in town because, like many other ...

Some people with anxiety may define themselves as high functioning and may do well at work, for example, or excel at sports or other aspects of their lives. Despite this, people living with this type of anxiety can face many challenges. People with high functioning anxiety experience many typical symptoms of anxiety, such as excessive worry and fear, overthinking, and poor sleep. Effective treatment is available for all types of anxiety. This article provides an overview of high functioning anxiety, its symptoms, and the potential treatment options. Doctors do not recognize high functioning anxiety as a distinct anxiety condition, and there is a distinct lack of research in the area. However, some people with anxiety symptoms describe themselves as being high functioning. By this, they typically mean that they manage to function well in their day-to-day lives. The medical community knows that anxiety disorders exist on a spectrum and affect people in different way...

Atlas Research and Prometheus Federal Services ' joint venture Titan Alpha has received a task order to assess patient care access at 140 Department of Veterans Affairs-run medical centers. Titan Alpha will perform two audits , the first of which applies to all VAMCs and the second inspection will apply to the medical facilities that must take corrective action as a result of the initial assessment, Atlas Research said Wednesday. The Veterans Health Administration awarded the task order under its 10-year, $1 billion Integrated Healthcare Transformation contract vehicle and will use data from the reviews to determine the performance of hospitals that serve former military personnel. Margo Rubertus, a senior manager at Atlas Research, said a group of health care transformation professionals will use their commercial audit experience and knowledge of VHA policies and systems and policies to carry out the audits. The agency's access office enlists the help of an unaffilia...