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New 2025 guidelines focus on early intervention and lifestyle to manage high blood pressure

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Preventing and managing high blood pressure with healthy lifestyle behaviors, such as following a heart-healthy diet including reducing salt intake, staying physically active, maintaining a healthy weight and managing stress—combined with early treatment with medication to lower blood pressure if necessary—are recommended to reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure, kidney disease, cognitive…

Staffing shortages at VA health systems are on the rise, watchdog finds

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Health care staffing shortages at the Department of Veterans Affairs are on the rise, according to a new watchdog report. In the report, out Tuesday, the VA’s Office of Inspector General, or OIG, found Veterans Health Administration facilities reported 4,434 staffing shortages this fiscal year, which is a 50% increase from fiscal year 2024. Almost…

Lifestyle interventions key to closing life expectancy gap in mental illness

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Mental health services must urgently increase investment in lifestyle interventions to improve care and help close the 15-year life expectancy gap faced by people with mental illness, a new Lancet Psychiatry Commission report warns.  Lifestyle interventions targeting physical activity, nutrition, sleep and smoking are key to mental health care, not optional extras, according to the…

School board considers state mandated updates to policy for telehealth appointments during school | Public K-12

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New studies tie unrecognized deaths and health problems to Maui and LA wildfires

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NEW YORK (AP) — The toll of wildfires is usually counted in acres burnt, property destroyed and lives lost to smoke and flames. But three studies published Wednesday suggest the cost to human health from the Maui and Los Angeles wildfires was substantially higher. Two of the papers explore what happened after the Hawaii fire…

Bill Gates, infertility, AI at Mayo Clinic

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Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning! This newsletter came together with extra help from my STAT colleagues today, as I spent yesterday afternoon listening to Bill Gates speak about the innovations in women’s health funded by his foundation. And then I…

Heart City Health names Black as chief executive | Business

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Trump Super PAC Nets $200M From Elon Musk and Other Favor Seekers

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President Donald Trump’s primary Super PAC has raked in over $200 million this year, with the donations ranging from unseemly to objectively funny. Perhaps the most notable donor to the group, MAGA Inc., is Elon Musk, who gave $5 million in late June despite publicly feuding with the president ever since he left his role…

Health care premiums expected to rise for Affordable Care Act enrollees

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Health care premiums expected to rise for Affordable Care Act enrollees – CBS News Watch CBS News People who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act are expected to see a significant spike in their premiums next year because of several factors, including an end to certain tax credits. Dr. Jon LaPook explains….

Why millions of Americans could see their health insurance rates rise

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Why millions of Americans could see their health insurance rates rise – CBS News Watch CBS News Millions of Americans who take advantage of the Affordable Care Act could see their health insurance costs skyrocket next year due to multiple factors, including the expiration of COVID-era subsidies. The national health information nonprofit KFF found that…