Significant levels of the weed-killing chemical glyphosate have been found in an array of popular breakfast cereals, oats and snack bars marketed to US children, a new study has found. Tests revealed glyphosate, the active ingredient in the popular weedkiller brand Roundup, present in all but two of the 45 oat-derived products that were sampled…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is issuing a public health alert surrounding beef, pork and poultry salad and wrap products sold at a number of major grocery store chains amid concerns about contamination with Cyclospora. The products were distributed by Caito Foods LLC, an Indianapolis, Ind. establishment, and were produced…
Martha Bebinger, WBUR It was Bea Duncan who answered the phone at 2 a.m. on a January morning. Her son Jeff had been caught using drugs in a New Hampshire sober home and was being kicked out. Bea and her husband, Doug, drove north that night nine years ago to pick him up. On the…
Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Accountable care organizations were among the key initiatives of the Affordable Care Act, designed to help control soaring Medicare costs. ACOs were expected to save the government nearly $5 billion by 2019, according to the Congressional Budget Office. It hasn’t come anywhere close. On Thursday, the Trump administration proposed an…
WAUSAU — Looking for a fun (and inexpensive) weekend activity to do with friends and family? Nothing says summer like an old-fashioned picnic. Whether you picnic in a park or in your own backyard, packing something tasty and healthful is easier than you might think. Aspirus health experts recommend you start by following these five…
Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News When the American Medical Association — one of the nation’s most powerful health care groups — met in Chicago this June, its medical student caucus seized an opportunity for change. Though they had tried for years to advance a resolution calling on the organization to drop its decades-long opposition to…
MERRILL — Ascension Good Samaritan Hospital has launched a new sleep medicine program so that people can receive diagnosis and treatment for sleep disorders in Merrill. Each sleep study requires six to eight hours of evaluation of breathing, oxygen, heartrate and brain activity. Monitoring leeds are placed on the head and face, and, depending on activity,…
WAUSAU — “Look Good … Feel Better” is a free, national public service program to help cancer patients cope with the possible appearance-related side effects of cancer treatment. Local beauticians offer help with wigs and make-up application to help restore self-confidence and self-esteem. Meetings take place on the third Monday of every month and are…
By Britain Eakin/Courthouse News WASHINGTON (CN) – A new abstinence focus at the White House inspired pushback from Planned Parenthood this year, but numerous affiliates of the organization learned Thursday afternoon that they made the list for upcoming Title X grants. According to a funding announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,…
Medicare has lowered its star ratings for staffing levels in 1 in 11 of the nation’s nursing homes — almost 1,400 of them — because they either had inadequate numbers of registered nurses or failed to provide payroll data that proved they had the required nursing coverage, federal records released last week show. Medicare only…
