Daily Monitor
Tuesday March 09 2021
Summary
Aware of the increasing health and social burden of fibroids, this Women’s month, Nation Media Group (NMG)-Uganda and partner hospitals are running a fibroids awareness campaign to provide information and support with regard to the health condition. In a new series starting today, this newspaper features real life stories and expert advice on the risks, remedies and treatment available as well as facilitating a conversation on a subject that is often covered up in silence and stigma.
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However, the global burden of diseases has changed significantly over the past decades.
Currently, the greatest burden of death and disability among women is attributable to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) most notably cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, diabetes, dementia, depression, and musculoskeletal disorders.
March 5, 2021 6:00 a.m.
There was no better symbol of the Trump administration’s plans for sabotaging the Affordable Care Act than how, soon after the inauguration, its Department of Health and Human Services prioritized erasing mentions of the law on its web page.
The removals, as blatant as they were petty, quickly caught the attention of health care experts and portended a broader Trump effort to shirk its duties to implement the law, even after it became clear Congress was going to be unable to repeal it.
But the extent of the erasure effort is only just now becoming clear. New documents recently obtained by TPM give a fresh view into how sweeping and systematic this purge of ACA mentions was, and how, four years later, federal public health websites are still devoid of key references to the law.
Biden’s excellent pick for assistant secretary of health
Feb 22, 2021 | 1
Cece Cox, CEO, Resource Center
The country, including the LGBTQ community, has reason to be proud this month with President Joe Biden’s nomination of Dr. Rachel Levine to be the next assistant secretary of health. Dr. Levine most recently served as the secretary of health in Pennsylvania, where she won high praise guiding her state through the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid crisis.
Dr. Levine isn’t just a great pick for her expertise. As the first openly-transgender person to face Senate confirmation, she also brings a lived perspective from an underserved and marginalized community.
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Biloxi VA Medical Center in Biloxi, Mississippi. (Dept. of Veteran Affairs)
10 Feb 2021
A Department of Veterans Affairs gynecologist in Biloxi, Mississippi, made graphic and lewd comments to patients while conducting pelvic examinations, joked about sex with them and otherwise traumatized veterans under his care, yet he remained on staff for years after an administrator became aware of complaints, a VA investigation has found.
In a 33-page report released Wednesday by the VA s Office of Inspector General, the department s top watchdog said a staff gynecologist at the Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System was disrespectful, rude and offensive to at least five veteran patients, all of whom said their experiences with the physician left them feeling violated.