Living a longer life has been linked to many behaviors like healthy eating and regular exercise, but can a person’s personality also play a role?
“Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life,” one of the most popular books about longevity, highlights the practices of “blue zones,” areas with some of the longest-lived people in the world, including Japan.
The book, written by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles, discusses how the things that factor into a long and healthy life aren’t limited to what you do physically.
Most centenarians, people at or near the age of 100, have…
Toodle-oo, Timbits: NL’s health authority cuts sweets from some facilities under healthy food policy
NL Health Services has banned the sale of donuts and Timbits from the Tim Hortons location at the Health Sciences Center in St. Louis. John’s as part of a new healthy food policy. (Kate Bueckert/CBC)
NL Health Services has banned the sale of donuts and other sweets in some of its facilities — including the Health Sciences Center in St. Louis. John’s — under the first phase of its new healthy food policy, and chips and chocolate bars are up next.
The authority’s health food policy was adopted in 2022, according to Natalie Moody, NL Health Services director of public…
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Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood glucose. Hyperglycaemia, also called raised blood glucose or raised blood sugar, is a common effect of uncontrolled diabetes and over time leads to serious damage to many of the body’s systems, especially the nerves and blood vessels.
In 2014, 8.5% of adults aged 18 years and older had diabetes. In 2019, diabetes was the direct cause of 1.5 million deaths and 48% of all deaths…
Scholars from the University of Toronto and Dalhousie University have created a set of online courses on Black health and anti-Black racism in the Canadian health-care system, which will be available to learners across Canada – a momentous step in helping advance equitable care for Black Canadians.
The Black Health Primer was created in response to gaps in education and training on Black health and anti-Black racism in medicine and public health, say its creators Onye Nnoroman assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Temperance Faculty of Medicine, Sume Ndumbe-Eyohan assistant professor at Dalla Lana and…
Caltech alumnus Leroy (Lee) Hood (BS ’60, PhD ’68) has spent over half a century thinking about how to live a good life. Hood is currently the CEO of Phenome Health, a non-profit created to measure individuals’ genetics, metabolites, environment, and behavioral habits—the so-called phenome—to help people live healthy lives and prevent disease. The organization’s Human Phenome Initiative aims to conduct these multidimensional studies on 1 million people over 10 years.
On April 10, Hood gave the inaugural Presidential Distinguished Lecture at Caltech to discuss the shift in health care from disease care to wellness and prevention care. The Presidential…
If the contract ends, people covered by Cigna Insurance would be billed out-of-network costs at ProMedica facilities.
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ProMedica may soon end a contract with a health insurance company if the two parties don’t reach an agreement in negotiations over a new contract.
If Cigna Insurance and ProMedica are unable to reach an agreement, the contract will end on April 1. In a statement from ProMedica, the healthcare company says it entered a short-term agreement with Cigna in 2022.
The statement says ProMedica and Cigna have been negotiating for several months to reach a renewed contract, but have…
Lawmakers are pressing the Pentagon to improve medical care in Japan for US military personnel, families and Defense Department civilians amid ongoing concerns that the lack of access to care is forcing service members and federal civilian employees to leave the country.
The move follows efforts initiated last October by US Indo-Pacific Command and the Defense Health Agency to improve emergency medical services for Americans covered by a Status of Forces Agreement with Japan.
In a letter to the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs and director of the Defense Health Agency, the bipartisan group that includes the chairwoman…