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#health-care-system

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs takes care of about 9 million veterans at 1,255 facilities.It is the nation's largest integrated health care system.Charles Dharapak/AP A nationwide Medicare survey released today found that veterans rated Veterans Affairs hospitals higher than private health care facilities in all 10 categories of patient satisfaction.

Canada's government is seeking to delay efforts to expand the country's medical assistance in dying program to include mental illness.AILSA CHANG, HOST: The expansion of medical assistance in dying to people with mental illness has been delayed by Canada's Parliament for another year.The country already allows medically assisted death for some incurable illnesses.

For decades, women have received changing advice about who should mammogram screenings for breast cancer, and how often.The guidelines have been especially variable for women in their 40sleading them confused about what schedule is right for them.The recommendations may be changing yet again.From 2016 until now, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a government body of experts that regularly reviews data on important health issues, has advised women ages 40 to 50 to make personalized decisions about their screening schedule after discussing their health history and risks for breast cancer with their doctors.

In his second State of the Union speech on Feb. 7, President Joe Biden made it clear that the Administration is moving into the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemicone in which the threats of disease and death are considerably diminished, and therefore no longer require the resources and urgent allocation of funds that the previous two years have.

Do you remember when Covid was going to establish China as the world's dominant power?As late as mid-2021, my inbox was full of assertions that China's apparent success in containing the coronavirus showed the superiority of the Chinese system over Western societies that, as one commentator put it, did not have the ability to quickly organize every citizen around a single goal.

Image Some Americans will now need to pay co-payments or deductibles for Covid tests.Credit...Erik S Lesser/EPA, via Shutterstock For the last three years, the United States has been operating an experiment in single-payer health care for one disease.That era largely came to an end last week as the public health emergency for Covid-19 expired.

The life expectancy of Americans has dropped for two consecutive years.The first year, attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, was consistent with other countries.The second year was not.In spite of how much our nation spends on health care services, which reached $4 trillion in 2020 or around $12,500 per person, these funds are providing less health benefit value for Americans.

The topic of motherhood may be universaleveryone has something to say about the experience of mothering, being mothered, or the absence thereofbut it's far from simple.For some, motherhood can be a source of joy and strength; for others, it's a reminder of pain, loss, or frustration.This spring, motherhood takes center stage in a number of new books that explore the diversity of what it means to be a mother, to do mothering work, to receive caregiving from a mother or mother figure, or, in some cases, to divest from it.

Many of those who died in the Covid-19 pandemic in Northern Ireland were ultimately victims of the dire state of the region's health service prior to the pandemic, the chair of the UK inquiry has been told.The coronavirus emergency hit a health system that was already near collapse due to years of underinvestment and political dysfunction, a group representing bereaved relatives claimed.

NHS Grampian staff have been asked to give up annual leave to help the health board which is facing an extreme level of pressure.Health chiefs issued the plea on their official Twitter account, asking staff who may be on annual leave but available to work to get in touch as soon as possible.NHS Grampian wrote: We are currently facing an extreme level of pressure across our health care system, due to the number of acutely ill patients arriving at hospital and difficulties in discharging patients to community settings.

Locke said with the high level of winter respiratory viruses circulating in addition to COVID-19, she thinks everyone should consider wearing a mask in indoor public settings."I definitely am masking up now when I go into the grocery store.I took a little break earlier in the year and now I'm sending my kids back to school in masks.

Image You don't need to have read Egan's Pulitzer-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad to jump feet first into this much-anticipated sequel.But for lovers of the 2010 book's prematurely nostalgic New Yorkers, cerebral beauty and laser-sharp take on modernity, The Candy House is like coming home  albeit to dystopia.

Have you ever been so sick you couldn't get into bed?Yes, you read me right.I've had the experience of being too sick to get out of bed before.But when COVID-19 hit me, I was too sick to get into bed.It happened a few days before Halloween.All trick, no treat.The bug came over me before bedtime, so swiftly and ruthlessly that I could barely hobble to our bedroom.

Citing an unusual increase in respiratory illness that has hospital and ER capacity stretched thin, three Massachusetts physician groups are calling on the public for help.Physicians across Massachusetts are seeing a spike in cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), particularly in children, according to a joint statement from Massachusetts Medical Society President Dr. Ted Calianos, Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians President Dr. Emily Chin, and Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics President Dr. Mary Beth Miotto.