Health officials are working to alert hundreds of people in dozens of states and several countries who may have been exposed to rabies in bat-infested cabins in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park over the past few months. As of Friday, none of the bats found in some of the eight linked cabins at Jackson Lake…
Those sniffles likely aren’t a summer cold; COVID-19 is everywhere right now. And things are expected to get worse before they get better. Some experts predict virus rates will continue to rise as we ride out this summer infection surge. Jay Weiland, an infectious disease modeler, shared on social media that he predicts the summer…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain 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 Lancet Psychiatry Commission report warns. Lifestyle interventions targeting physical activity, nutrition, sleep and smoking are key to mental health care, not optional extras,…
Eating healthy can be difficult with fast food options on nearly every street. The Greene County Health Department aims to change that with a new initiative. Thanks to a grant from Health First Indiana, the department has launched the free 18-week “Food as Medicine” program. This program highlights the benefits of healthy eating, particularly for…
A person in Missouri has been hospitalized after contracting a brain-eating amoeba, possibly after water skiing in the Lake of the Ozarks, state health officials said Wednesday. The patient, who was not identified, is being treated in an intensive care unit for an infection of the Naegleria fowleri amoeba, the Missouri Department of Health and…
In a world where clean eating and health trends dominate social media, many believe that following the ‘healthiest diet’ guarantees wellness. But sometimes, even the best intentions can’t prevent serious illness. A 29-year-old woman, Monika Choudhary, who strictly adhered to clean eating, was diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer. In her July 30 Instagram post,…
A Blaine man was convicted Tuesday in a Medicaid fraud case after his agency, Promise Health Services, stole more than $7 million that he reportedly used to fund a “lavish lifestyle.” “Stealing money meant for poor people’s healthcare and using it to buy luxury cars and designer clothes is as shameful and disgraceful as it…
In the cholera-stricken refugee camps of western Sudan, every second is infected by fear. Faster than a person can boil water over an open flame, the flies descend, and everything is contaminated once more. Cholera is ripping through the camps of Tawila in Darfur, where hundreds of thousands of people have been left with nothing…
August is National Wellness Month. To discuss the importance of wellness I was joined by Rejuv Medical CEO Garrett Ewers. He says wellness is simply how you fell and what is contributing to your overall health. Ewers says this involves your happiness, the level of pain you deal with and how energized you are. Mental…
“Wellness” is a word influencers use as a hashtag on videos of them pouring collagen into smoothies and as the theme of a celebrity chef’s new cookbook. It’s even an obsession of the US health secretary. But what does it mean to be well? That’s the question we answer this week on Explain It to…