Category: Healthy Food

Small private practices and health-care providers are facing mounting financial pressures as crucial reimbursement systems remain down for the ninth day, following the cyberattack on Change Healthcare.

Change Healthcare offers tools for payment and revenue cycle management that help facilitate transactions between providers and most major insurance companies. Its parent company UnitedHealth Group discovered that a cyber threat actor breached part of the unit’s information technology network on Feb. 21, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

As a result, the company isolated and disconnected the impacted systems “immediately upon detection” of the threat, the filing

A healthy lifestyle that involves moderate alcohol consumption, a nutritious diet, regular physical activity, restorative sleep, and frequent social connections while avoiding smoking and too much sedentary behavior reduces the risk of depression, new research has found.

In research published today in Nature Mental Healthan international team of researchers, including from the University of Cambridge and Fudan University, looked at a combination of factors, including lifestyle factors, genetics, brain structure, and our immune and metabolic systems to identify the underlying mechanisms that might explain this link.

Study: The brain structure, immunometabolic and genetic mechanisms underlying the association between lifestyle

Healthy People, Healthy Planet is a new virtual speaker series designed for faculty, staff and learners in the Queen’s community to promote healthy behavior with a focus on the intersection of lifestyle and planetary health to achieve optimal wellbeing. Six sessions will take place throughout April covering topics such as healthy sleep, diet, sustainability and physical activity.

Register for one or more of these free, virtual events. Use this form if you have a question, or are interested in supporting this project.

Are sustainable and healthy diets for all possible?

April 3 at 12 – 1 pm

Learning objectives:

1. Describe

March 4, 2024 | Mississauga, ON | Health Canada

As Canada’s largest group of regulated health professionals with more than 450,000 members, nurses are critical to Canada’s health care system. However, nurses are currently facing increased workloads, high rates of burnout, stress, anxiety and depression, and, in some cases, abuse.

To help support and retain members of the nursing workforce, today, the Honorable Mark Holland, Canada’s Minister of Health joined Dr. Leigh Chapman, Canada’s Chief Nursing Officer at Trillium Health Partners, Credit Valley Hospital, to announce the release of the Nursing Retention Toolkit: Improving the Working Lives of Nurses in

The North East is set to fall further behind other parts of the country in terms of how long people live in good health, according to new analysis shared with ITV News Tyne Tees.

Healthy life expectancy is a measure of the average number of years a person would expect to be in good health, and is considered a key indicator relating to quality of life.

One of the missions set out in the government’s Leveling Up White Paper, published in February 2022, was: “By 2030, the gap in Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) between local areas where it is highest

March 4, 2024