Author: Sanjh
Long Covid’s Mental Health Issues Draw HHS Response 2023
A Biden administration effort introduced Wednesday focuses on long-term Covid users’ mental health. The Biden administration’s Health and Human Services Department links lengthy Covid to anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, tiredness, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The HHS wants to improve mental health diagnosis and treatment for long-term Covid patients. Long-term COVID can cause physical and mental…
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Gloucestershire Police reduce mental health callouts 2023
Gloucestershire police will minimize mental health calls. The force will join a nationwide program that limits mental health calls to life-threatening situations. It adopted the Met Police’s scheme first. Mental health organisations worry the new strategy may endanger the most vulnerable. Chris Nelson, Gloucestershire’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), claims mental health calls require “many…
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Daytime naps improve brain health: Study 2023
According to University College London researchers, short daytime naps promote brain function and reduce brain atrophy. A research reveals that daily 30-minute naps improve brain function. Short naps slowed aging by three to six years, since the nappers’ brains were 15 cubic centimeters bigger. Scientists recommend naps under 30 minutes. (Those 20-minute power naps may…
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Health facilities in Egypt are smoke-free 2023
Egypt’s Minister of Health and Population, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, has permanently outlawed smoking “in all its forms” at all curative, preventative, and rehabilitative health facilities. This regulation protects residents from smoking-related health problems. According to Ministry of Health and Population spokeswoman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the minister’s decree also bans smoking in ministry premises and related…
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How life & health insurers can improve health outcomes and close the protection gap 2023
The global health crisis has illuminated the significance of population access to healthcare and the need for individuals to take proactive measures to preserve their health and well-being. Nonetheless, it has contributed to the widening of the protection gap, particularly for vulnerable groups, as a result of the exacerbated cost of living crisis, job losses,…
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CodeBlue Launches Survey On The Mental Health Of Health Workers 2023
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought mental health to the forefront, with Malaysia reporting at least three sudden deaths among health care personnel within the past two years. The Selangor state health department recently confirmed the fatalities of two Klang-based healthcare workers on June 4 and June 6 (one was a 32-year-old doctor who worked at…
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Cyber Crime Cell Investigates CoWIN Data Breach: Health Ministry 2023
The Hindu Business Line reported that the Union health ministry, despite asserting that CoWIN data has not been compromised, plans to file an FIR against the intrusion that may have originated from another database. “We will submit a case with the Cyber Crime unit today or within the next two days. However, CoWIN data has…
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Who Is Responsible for Your Health? Your Doctor or Your Insurance Company? 2023
Patients still think physicians decide health care. They believe their doctor should prescribe medicine following a consultation and exam. As their doctor, I hope so. Sadly, that seldom happens. A radiologist phoned me last week to tell that a patient’s CT scan revealed intestinal irritation. The insurer would only authorize MRIs ordered by gastroenterologists, so…
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Enhance cognitive health and delay aging with a 30-minute midday siesta 2023
According to the findings, the average difference in brain volume or size of the organ between persons designed to be habitual nappers and those who were not was comparable to 2.6 to 6.5 years of ageing. This was the case for both the people who were taught to nap regularly and those who did not.…
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Union Health Minister leads high-level meeting amid heatwaves 2023
On Tuesday in the nation’s capital, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya presided over a high-level conference to assess the readiness of the country’s public health services for heatwaves. The meeting’s purpose was to determine whether or not the country is prepared to deal with heatwaves. At the conference were also specialists from the India Meteorological…
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