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Black Plastic Items Can Have Cancer-Causing BFRs, New Study Warns

Forbes Healthcare

Black plastic items such kitchen utensils, food containers, clothing and hair accessories and electronic equipment casing may have toxic brominated retardants (BFRs).

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How drug and soap commercials are manipulating you

KevinMD.com

Having worked as a copywriter and creative director at some of the world’s top ad agencies, including McCann Erickson (now McCann Worldgroup), I am vehemently critical of new advertising. Why? I know the tricks and how they manipulate well — think the old TV series Mad Men. Leading the list of ads that I hate Read more… How drug and soap commercials are manipulating you originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Researchers Begin Developing Ovarian Cancer Vaccine

Forbes Healthcare

If successful, the vaccine could protect women against ovarian cancer, which only around half of women survive long-term at the moment.

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PMI Shorts #4 -A Conversation with Two New CMOM’s

Practice Management Institute

An Interview with David Womack, Lynn Vi and Hazel Williams David: Welcome everyone, thank you for joining me. Today is a little bit different for Jan and I. First of all Jan, I believe this is now the PMI shorts number three and today is a little bit different because I'm typically talking and asking Jan questions today Jan and I are asking the questions.

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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Biden Administration Issues Rules To Ensure Parity In Mental Health Coverage

Forbes Healthcare

By issuing final rules to fortify mental health coverage parity law, the Biden Administration says it's improving access to mental health and substance use disorder care.

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