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December 10, 2021

Healthy Kids

In parents, vaccine skepticism is healthy. Cynicism is not

Misinformation is tightening its stranglehold on the American psyche. My 9-year-old daughter, Sonia, knows no other world than one where truth and fiction are often indistinguishable. That’s the reality for a generation well-versed with social media and the internet, Pay Per Touch. This stranglehold is not a looming threat —…

Health News

Health Experts Worry CDC’s Covid Vaccination Rates Appear Inflated

Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News For nearly a month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s online vaccine tracker has shown that virtually everyone 65 and older in the United States — 99.9{b574a629d83ad7698d9c0ca2d3a10ad895e8e51aa97c347fc42e9508f0e4325d} — has received at least one covid vaccine dose. That would be remarkable — if true. But…

Health Center

United Memorial Medical Center loses Medicare contract over safety, health violations

United Memorial Medical Center, a hospital system with four locations in Houston, will lose its contracts with Medicare after several inspections found health and safety violations from failing to screen staff for COVID-19 to rusted equipment to cockroaches in the operating room, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…

Healthy Lifestyle

Holiday Habits Survey Reveals 64{b574a629d83ad7698d9c0ca2d3a10ad895e8e51aa97c347fc42e9508f0e4325d} of Americans Push Healthy “New Year, New Me” to After the Holidays

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — According to the fourth annual “Writing Off The Holidays” survey commissioned by Herbalife Nutrition, despite people’s desire to be healthy, two-thirds (64{b574a629d83ad7698d9c0ca2d3a10ad895e8e51aa97c347fc42e9508f0e4325d}) of Americans plan to actively delay their attempts to be healthy until 2022, a 9{b574a629d83ad7698d9c0ca2d3a10ad895e8e51aa97c347fc42e9508f0e4325d} increase over 2020 and 23{b574a629d83ad7698d9c0ca2d3a10ad895e8e51aa97c347fc42e9508f0e4325d} over…