Non-white pedestrians more often end up in the ER for vehicle-related injuries, report shows Pedestrians who are not white ended up in the emergency room for traffic-related injuries at higher rates than white people, according to a new federal report published Thursday. There were more than ... 05/4/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Shocking Report Reveals More Non-White Pedestrians Go To The ER With Vehicle-Related Injuries Black pedestrians came in 1.93 times more than white people to end up in the emergency room, followed by Hispanic people at 1.7 times more. 05/4/2024 - 7:59 am | View Link
Virtual doctor visits now available for those insured under GovGuam Government of Guam employees, retirees and their families now have another option of seeing the doctor through telemedicine with the implementation of Teladoc. 05/3/2024 - 3:15 pm | View Link
The State of Mental Healthcare in North Carolina A recent spending plan in NC tied to Medicaid expansion allocated $30 billion for substantial investments in mental health services to address the state's mental healthcare crisis. 05/3/2024 - 11:20 am | View Link
Report: Medicaid coverage improves health care access, reduces ER visits Montanans covered by Medicaid for at least three years make fewer trips to the emergency department and incur lower costs for intensive or inpatient care, a report released this week shows. About 40% ... 05/2/2024 - 8:56 am | View Link
Emergency Room Visit: ER Costs & Wait Times | Cigna Healthcare In an emergency, dial 911 or visit the nearest emergency room. Knowing when and why to go for an emergency room visit can help you plan accordingly. Learn when to go to the emergency room, wait times, ER costs and more. 05/4/2024 - 7:15 pm | View Website
Why An ER Visit Can Cost So Much — Even For Those With Health ... March 13, 20191:27 PM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. Terry Gross. 35-Minute Listen. Playlist. Vox reporter Sarah Kliff spent over a year reading thousands of ER bills and investigating the reasons... 05/4/2024 - 7:15 pm | View Website
Urgent care or emergency room: Differences and when to visit Difference. Urgent care. Emergency room. Visiting urgent care. Visiting emergency care. Calling 911. Walk-in clinic. Summary. Medical professionals at urgent care centers and hospital... 05/4/2024 - 4:52 pm | View Website
What to Know About Going to the Emergency Room Emergency Room Visit. 5 min read. Hospital emergency rooms (or departments) deal with sudden illnesses and injuries. They maintain preparedness for every kind of health emergency, including... 05/4/2024 - 5:03 am | View Website
FastStats Data are for the U.S. Number of visits: 139.8 million. Number of injury-related visits (includes poisoning and adverse effects): 40.0 million. Number of visits per 100 persons: 42.7. Number of emergency department visits resulting in hospital admission: 18.3 million. 05/3/2024 - 9:11 pm | View Website
Israel’s military has begun moving civilians out of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to an “expanded humanitarian area” near Khan Younis, another city in Gaza.
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The move comes after cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel in Cairo over the weekend seemingly stalled, the main sticking point being the Iran-backed militant group’s insistence that any truce is permanent.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2018 Persons of the Year as well as one of the most influential women of the century for her fight for press freedoms and against misinformation, was selected in March to deliver the principal address at Harvard University’s commencement on May 23.
Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident.
The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a statement that it was aware of the widely shared Ole Miss video and that “the racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
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