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Americans show strong support for mental health coverage Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, overwhelmingly feel that insurance should cover mental health. Seventy-seven percent of all Americans said private health insurance offered through an employer or union should cover mental health, including ...
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GOP health bill could shred safety net for millions The Affordable Care Act (ACA) historically expanded coverage of a range of effective, targeted preventive services to make them accessible to millions of Americans.
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AHCA could stifle Ohio's healthcare industry, cutting jobs and services Bus enters Cleveland Health-Tech Corridor at E. 55 and Euclid Avenue, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (Marvin Fong / The Plain Dealer). By Ginger Christ, The Plain Dealer · gchrist@plaind.
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CBO Has Clear Message About Losers in House Health Bill The Senate now has a clearer sense of who would win and lose under the health bill the House sent them. It also got a startlingly direct message from government analysts about how destabilizing one of the House ideas could be.
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Residents of halfway house found two men dead from overdoses — their drug counselors The man's losing battle with heroin was laid out right there on the nightstand of the halfway house. There were three morning devotionals, including "God Calling," geared toward keeping a person's thoughts pointed heavenward.
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Why Chocolate May Be Good for the Heart Eating chocolate has been tied to a reduced risk of heart disease. Now scientists have uncovered one possible reason. Using data from a large Danish health study, researchers have found an association between chocolate consumption and a lowered risk ...
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Getting High on Mushrooms Not Likely to Send You to the Emergency Room If there was such a thing as a safe drug, then magic mushrooms would be it—at least that's what a new study by the Global Drug Survey (GDS) found.
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Drug counselors overdose at addiction facility (CNN) Two counselors at an addiction facility in southeastern Pennsylvania died after overdosing on opioids, according to the Chester County District Attorney.
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Cannabidiol slashes seizures in kids with rare epilepsy, study finds (CNN) Cannabidiol, which is found in marijuana plants, reduced the number of convulsive seizures in children with a severe and often fatal epilepsy disorder, according to research published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Chocolate tied to decreased risk of irregular heart rhythm Eating a small amount of chocolate every week or so may decrease the risk of a common and serious type of irregular heart rhythm, according to a new study of people in Denmark.
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Child gets heart transplant donor shortly after visit with first lady A young boy in need of a heart transplant that met with first lady Melania Trump in Italy on Wednesday is now the recipient of a new heart from a donor.
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How Zika Conquered the Americas Like The Atlantic? Subscribe to The Atlantic Daily, our free weekday email newsletter. In April 1947, researchers in Uganda discovered a new virus in the blood of a feverish monkey.
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Fitness Trackers: Good at Measuring Heart Rate, Not So Good At Measuring Calories Sleek, high-tech wristbands are extremely popular these days, promising to measure heart rate, steps taken during the day, sleep, calories burned and even stress.
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Is Your Apple Watch or Fitbit Making You Fat? Even the most accurate activity tracker was off by an average of 27 percent when it came to measuring energy expenditure. James Porcini / Getty Images/Cultura RF.
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Eating Chocolate, A Little Each Week, May Lower The Risk Of A Heart Flutter There's a rich body of evidence that links chocolate to heart health. Now comes a new study that finds people who consume small amounts of chocolate each week have a lower risk of developing atrial fibrillation, a heart condition characterized by a ...
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Chocolate may be good medicine for reducing the risk of an irregular heartbeat, study says Medical researchers have identified a compound that may reduce your risk of a dangerous type of heart rhythm that can lead to strokes, dementia, heart failure and early death.
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Sweet science: Harvard study suggests chocolate may reduce heart disease risk Feeling guilty about those chocolate chip cookies at lunch? Think again! Those delicious morsels might be lowering your risk of atrial fibrillation, a heart condition linked to stroke and heart failure.
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Poor sleep is linked to higher death risk in those with heart issues Diseases of the blood vessels supplying the heart and brain tissues are leading causes of death among Americans. And while researchers have known that things like metabolic syndrome -- high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and/or triglycerides ...
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Texas part of recall of possibly contaminated food Texas is among six states where thousands of cases of food that may contain pieces of metal were shipped in late April, the US Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday.
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After trying to conceive for 17 years, couple welcomes sextuplets at VCU Medical Center RICHMOND, Va. - After trying to conceive for 17 years, a Nigerian couple welcomed sextuplets into the world at VCU Medical Center earlier this month.
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Sleepless Nights Could Pose Heart Risk Dangers WEDNESDAY, May 24, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Getting less than six hours of sleep a night may double the odds of dying from heart disease or stroke for people who already have risk factors for heart disease and diabetes, new research suggests.
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Cancer research, public health and worker safety would all see steep cuts under Trump budget Under the heading "Putting America's Health First," the Trump administration's 2018 budget blueprint includes a $5.8-billion cut for the National Institutes of Health, a move that would slash the medical research agency's funding by just over 18%.
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For 'Don't Fry Day,' American Cancer Society says be smart about the sun Despite increased awareness about the dangers of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, melanoma rates continue to rise in the United States.
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Zika Virus Was Spreading Quietly a Year Before Anyone Knew, Gene Study Shows The Zika virus was spreading in northeastern Brazil for as long as a year before anyone noticed, and for weeks and months in places like Miami and Honduras, new genomic studies show.
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Your Intelligence Genes: 52 and Counting A new study finds 52 genes that are related to intelligence - a rousing success in a field that has often struggled to find correlations between smarts and genes.
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It's Time To Go After Mosquitos Before They Come After Us A vaccine can provide the recipient with immunity to one or two of these viruses at a time. But there's another way to tackle these diseases: by going after the insects.
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Genes for Smarts Also Genes for "Smart" Living A genome-wide association study (GWAS) has identified 15 new genomic loci and 40 new genes for intelligence. Some of the newly identified genes also appear to influence several neuropsychiatric and metabolic disorders.
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FDA OKs First Cancer Drug by Genetic Type WEDNESDAY, May 24, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Many new cancer drugs target genetic "biomarkers" that are specific to tumors -- wherever in the body they may appear.
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16-Year-Old Boy Sickened with Botulism Linked to Gas Station Nacho Cheese CLARKSBURG -- "We're wishing him to get better and come back to us real quickly," said Delta High School Principal Laura Uslan.
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Can the ingredients in sunscreen really cause burns to your face? INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Fla. - Can the ingredients in sunscreen, a product meant to protect your skin, actually burn you? It's a question we wanted to answer after a grandmother here told us her 3-year-old granddaughter suffered rashes, blisters and burns ...
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Man's death tied to California botulism outbreak Health officials traced a botulism outbreak to contaminated nacho cheese sold at this gas station in Walnut Grove, California. CBS Sacramento.
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Young reporter: Apps and mental health work together Many of you reading this may not know this, but May is actually Mental Health Awareness Month. This will cover disorders such as Autism and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), but also involves increasingly diagnosed health problems like ...
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This social media site ranked worst for mental health Instagram is the most detrimental social media platform to young people's mental health, according to new research out of the U.K.. Researchers from the Royal Society for Public Health in conjunction with the Young Health Movement published the report ...
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What you need to know about ticks (CNN) - As summer heat descends, replacing balmy spring breezes, ticks are becoming active in many regions of the United States. In the coming months, some experts predict that ticks and the diseases they cause will be more abundant due to warmer ...
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Lida Shepherd: Health care cuts a vote for premature death in WV I love West Virginia, but sometimes I have to ask myself whether West Virginia and her elected leaders love me back. And if you're a person working a minimum-wage job, a person with chronic health issues or a person struggling with drug addiction, the ...
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Combined relay walks to kick cancer While final figures weren't available, the first combined Canton-Plymouth Relay for Life was on track to top its $200,000 goal.
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Study Finds 20 Percent Of Children Killed In Car Crashes Were Improperly Restrained A study found 20 percent of children involved in fatal car crashes were improperly restrained, or not restrained at all. Getty Images.
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