Artist Plastic Jesus is using his following to protest new abortion laws – by placing these coat hangers labelled as ‘at-home abortion kits’ in pharmacies across the U.S.. He staged the stunt with the help of over 50 volunteers, placing around 200 white wire coat hangers in stores last weekend. In a statement on his […]
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This are in the year 2019, the most important changes in the health care
The changes in the year 2019 in the health sector With the turn of the year and during the first months of the year 2019 of the important new regulations in the health sector enter into force. So, among other things, the additional contributions to the statutory health insurance funds will be taken from employers […]
Youth TBI laws promote head injury evaluation in emergency department
Millions of children and teens are affected by sports and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries (TBI) annually. To help reduce the effects of TBIs in youth sports, all 50 states and the District of Columbia enacted state youth TBI laws between 2009 and 2014. A new study from researchers in the Center for Injury Research and […]
Restrictive abortion laws in Northern Ireland affect women’s health, study shows
Despite a policy change to provide free abortion services for women traveling from Northern Ireland to clinics in Great Britain, Northern Irish women still experience multiple barriers to accessing care, according to new research from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. The study also found that some women […]
There’s really not much proof probiotics work: Study
Over the past decade, probiotic dietary supplements have turned into a multi-million dollar industry, taken by almost 4 million adults and prescribed by up to 60 percent of health care providers. Yet the scientific community has known little about whether or not they actually work. But this is likely to change, thanks to two back-to-back […]
The State of California Just Made a MAJOR Cruelty-Free Beauty Move
UPDATE (September 5, 2018 3 P.M. EST): This week marks a major victory for proponents of cruelty-free beauty, as California just passed a bill banning the sale of any products tested on animals. Earlier this year, we reported on the bill (officially called SB 1249) introduced by California Senator Cathleen Galgiani, which promised to pull […]
Tokyo passes strict anti-smoking laws ahead of Olympics
Tokyo’s city government Wednesday passed strict new anti-smoking rules ahead of the 2020 Olympics, leapfrogging national legislation on lighting up that has been watered down after opposition from pro-smoking MPs. Japan has long been an outlier in the developed world, considered a smoker’s paradise where lighting up is allowed in most restaurants and bars. The […]