“This isn’t a disease that just magically goes away. This manifests in several different ways in the future. We know that," said Jayda Jones, a radiology technical assistant interning at Mass General Brigham, who quit on Thursday.
Billboards have gone up across California warning about the negative effects of unchecked mergers in the health-care system. The Protect California Patients campaign is a coalition of more than 30 organizations that support Assembly Bill 1091, which would give the attorney general more oversight on mergers worth more than $15-million. Rachel Linn Gish is director of communications for Health Access California, which is helping lead the campaign. .
Early Sunday morning, Nevadans lost an hour of sleep but gained an hour of afternoon daylight as they moved their clocks forward for Daylight Saving Time. Dr. Vishisht Mehta, director of interventional pulmonology for Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, said while changing clocks has become a nuisance for many, the time change also presents health impacts, such as influencing people s circadian rhythms, which he said can be thought of as the body s "own internal clock." Mehta said from November to March, the body is better aligned with the light and dark cycles in standard time, and added when that alignment is disrupted, that is where trouble starts. .
A study by University of Iowa researchers shows the state has the highest cancer rate in the nation, and the only state in the country with rising cancer numbers. Iowa is also second-highest in the incidence of new cancers. However, the report showed while almost 21,000 new cancers will be diagnosed in Iowa this year, more people are surviving. .
Jennifer Ritz Sullivan lost her mother, Earla Dawn Dimitriadis, to COVID-19 in December 2020. Now, she is one of the millions grieving the loss of a loved one to the virus, and she is working hard to make sure the impact of the pandemic is not.