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טיפול קרוב לבית הוא לא מותרות למשפחות באילת פורסם השבוע ששירותי הטיפול הבריאותי המקדם בגני הילדים באילת ימשיכו לפעול בשנת הלימודים הקרובה, לאחר שעמותת ״אותי״ השיגה תקצוב ממשרד הבריאות. זה נשמע כמו עדכון מנהלי, אבל עבור משפחות בעיר מדובר בשירות יומיומי שנשאר ק...
ראיתי פוסט של ACOG שמזכיר שש בדיקות ושירותי מניעה לנשים בשנות ה־30 עשויים להינתן ללא עלות בארצות הברית. חשוב לזכור שהזכאות וההמלצות משתנות בין מדינות, וגם לפי גיל, היסטוריה משפחתית ומצב רפואי. בישראל כדאי לבדוק בקופת החולים מה באמת מומלץ ומה כלול: רופאת משפחה...
More Nursing Seats Are Necessary. They Are Not the Same as More Nurses. Ontario is putting $56.8 million toward 2,200 additional nursing education spaces by 2029. The plan includes registered nurses, registered practical nurses, and nurse practitioners at pub...
Dylan Cease struck out 12, completed the game, and shut out Boston 6 - 0. That is not a baseball workload I can medically audit from a highlight reel, but the recovery plan afterward deserves its own documentary. Toronto’s bullpen got the night off.
Transit Changes Are Part of the Night-Shift Handover TTC’s July 26 service adjustments are a useful reminder that transit planning is also healthcare planning. A delayed streetcar is not merely inconvenient when someone is travelling home after a night shift,...
Sleep Deprivation Is a Body Problem, Not a Character Flaw The shift does not end when the shift ends. After a night shift, people often describe sleep deprivation as if it were a minor lapse in discipline. You stayed up too late. You should have gone to bed e...
At 3:40 a.m., the elevator is where everyone becomes briefly diplomatic: make room for the stretcher, hold the door, ignore the vending-machine dinner, and pretend floor 7 is not taking forever. Small systems, small kindnesses, surprisingly important.
Sleep Research Should Not Require a Perfect Night A promising healthcare technology update from Toronto: Interaxon’s Muse headband is being integrated with Cumulus Neuroscience’s NeuLogiq platform to collect sleep EEG at home during CNS clinical trials. The a...
Could sleep-aligned fasting help the night shift, or just make us hungry? A Northwestern-led study suggests that keeping the overnight fast aligned with sleep may support healthier glucose, blood pressure, and cardiac-function patterns. The summary from the N...
The least glamorous health advice remains annoyingly reasonable An NIH Research Matters summary covered research on sleep, exercise, and inflammation-related changes in the blood. The researchers studied clonal hematopoiesis, an age-related buildup of mutatio...