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A series of online health workshops from the NAACP of Manchester aims to address health disparities in communities of color, and also help people better communicate their medical needs. Government data show African Americans are more likely to not seek medical care, due to access and cost, despite suffering from higher rates of high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity. Dr. ...

Advocates of medical aid in dying are cheering recent statements by Gov.-Elect Wes Moore in support of patients having the option. The governor-elect was asked last week at a summit about his support for "bodily autonomy" in the context of end-of-life decisions. Moore spoke about his own experience with family members near death and said, as a state, Maryland should protect the ability for people to make "independent decisions about the suffering that they are endurin...

By Shelby Harris for The Daily Yonder.Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan for North Carolina News Service Service for the Public News Service/Daily Yonder Collaboration Two summers ago, Lee Berger sat in her Macon County, N.C., home hunched over a laptop - pulling the small computer closer to her face. It was Bergers first telehealth appointment, a routine check-up with her primary care physician, and she couldnt hear what the doctor was saying. Berger thought about telling the doctor to spe...

Each year some 68,000 people in Colorado and across the U.S. die from opiate overdoses, largely due to lack of treatment, and federally qualified health clinics in southwestern Colorado are pioneering an effort to give people access to care at the same place they get their annual medical, dental and vision checkups. Jeanne Marotta, a family nurse practitioner with Axis Health System in Pagosa Springs, said getting people onto alternative medications can save lives. ...

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, bringing the spotlight to the countrys deadliest form of cancer. There will be an estimated 130,000 lung cancer deaths in 2022, including more than 8,400 in Oregon, according to the American Cancer Society. Michael Skokan, pulmonary critical-care physician at The Oregon Clinic, said many of these deaths are preventable and the first action people can take is to stop smoking. ...

November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month National Hospice and Palliative Care Month - but a lot of people confuse the two, so experts say they would like to clear up some misconceptions. Palliative care is designed to keep a patient comfortable at all stages of an illness. Hospice care is for people with 6 months or less to live. ...

November is Alzheimers Disease Awareness Month, and researchers at Indiana University were recently awarded $50-million dollars to study the field further. Research into late-onset Alzheimers disease continues under the MODEL-AD protocol, which was established at I-U in 2016 and develops models of disease progression in mice and then opens those models to other researchers. Gene editing of mice is used to create genetic risk variants that are seen in humans. ...

A nonprofit program is helping older adults in Utah and other states to develop new skills, polish their resumes and find work. After a lifetime of working, most people retire expecting to live a comfortable life. But circumstances can change, and people in their later years may find they need a job. ...

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and her challenger, former Republican Gov. Paul LePage, both are courting votes from Maines largest contingency -- people age 50 and older -- and the race is tight. ...

The roughly 2.4 million Ohioans who rely on Social Security income are expected to get a big boost in benefits, but advocates for the program are voicing concerns about its future stability, especially in this political climate. The annual Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment or "COLA," which could be announced any day now, is predicted to be close to 9% for 2023. Amid record high inflation, said Norman Wernet, president of the Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans, the in...