The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency March 27 released a proposed rule implementing cyber incident and ransom payment reporting requirements under the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022, intended to help the agency prevent cyberattacks and deploy assistance to victims. The rule would require critical infrastructure organizations, including hospitals and health systems, to report a covered cyber incident to the federal government within 72 hours and ransom payments within 24 hours, among other requirements. CISA will accept comments on the rule for 60 days after its publication in the April 4 Federal Register.…
Making a plan for preventative care and screenings is a great way to put your health first. Whether it’s keeping up with recommended vaccines or scheduling screening tests to detect potential problems early, there are different guidelines to stay on top of at different ages throughout your life.
“If everyone followed our preventative health screenings, we would catch disease earlier. We would be able to treat it and be more successful,” Dr. Robert M. Biernbaum, chief medical officer for WellNow Urgent Care, told CBS News. “Instead of seeing end stage breast cancer, end stage colon cancer, we would catch them…
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Healthy news and information ecosystems are critical to healthy communities. Research and experience have shown that communities that have significant amounts of relevant, quality news and information have greater levels of civic engagement, more community cohesion and greater government accountability. In late 2022 and early 2023, Impact Architects applied the Healthy News and Information Ecosystem assessment framework to eight Knight resident communities. For five of these cities—Charlotte, NC; Detroit, MI; Macon-Bibb County, GA; Miami, FL; andPhiladelphia, PA—this was the second application of the framework and we are able to observe change over time from 2020 through 2022. For three…
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An analysis of health records for almost 110,000 women in the UK found that women with poor cardiovascular health after pregnancy or who experienced adverse pregnancy outcomes, including high blood pressure, gestational diabetes and/or pre-term birth, had a significantly higher long-term risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
Among women with adverse pregnancy outcomes, those who maintained better cardiovascular health after pregnancy had cardiovascular disease risk similar to women who had no history of pregnancy complications.
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Strength training is good for everyone, but women who train regularly get a significantly higher boost in longevity than men.
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Strength training is good for everyone, but women who train regularly get a significantly higher boost in longevity than men.
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Resistance training does more than help us build strong muscles.
A new study finds women who do strength training exercises two to three days a week are more likely to live longer and have a lower risk of death from heart disease, compared to women who do…
Walking, biking or even riding a scooter to get from place to place ups your non-exercise activity thermogenesis, or NEAT. Small movements can make a positive difference to your overall health.
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Walking, biking or even riding a scooter to get from place to place ups your non-exercise activity thermogenesis, or NEAT. Small movements can make a positive difference to your overall health.
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Sometimes trying to be healthy feels like just another item on your endless, exhausting to-do list. Here on NPR’s health team, we…
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Amritsar, March 28
The District Health Department has advised the residents to adopt a healthy lifestyle to avoid diseases like hypertension and diabetes. Health experts stated that the primary cause of these diseases is an unhealthy lifestyle which leads to overweight.
Maintaining a healthy weight is all about balancing the calories you eat with the calories your body uses. The most important ways to help maintain the balance is by eating a variety of foods and exercising regularly.
Civil Surgeon Dr Vijay Kumar said that apart from hypertension and diabetes, people can prevent many diseases if they…
University of Queensland research has found gaming for more than three hours a day can lead to health problems.
Dr Daniel Stjepanović from UQ’s National Center for Youth Substance Use Research (NCYSUR) said the study examined responses from 955 gamers aged 18 to 94 from Australia, Canada, USA and the UKcollected during NCYSUR’s 2022 International Gaming Study.
“We looked at the relationship between prolonged continuous game play and physical problems participants identified in the past 12 months,” Dr Daniel Stjepanovic said.
“Results showed regardless of age or gender, people who played video games continuously for three or more hours were…