Nearly 900,000 Learn to Prevent Tooth Decay Through America ' s ToothFairy HERO Education Program
 The nationwide program is possible with support from Align Technology.Staff from Sonrisas Dental Health use the ToothFairy 101 ® Community Education Kit to teach youngsters at their school in San Mateo, CA about the importance of healthy dental hygiene habits. Sonrisas Dental Health receives free educational resources from America’s ToothFairy to help them serve more children in marginalized communities each year.(Charlotte, NC, August 15, 2023)  – More than 69 million people live in dental care health professional shortage areas, where on average only 31.75% of the population have their dental needs m...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - August 21, 2023 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news

NHS partners with Morrisons to put cancer check advice in underwear
The NHS has partnered with Morrisons to put cancer advice inside underwear, warning people to contact their GP if they spot potential symptoms. The supermarket chain’s Nutmeg branded underwear featuring the advice will be available in 240 stores across the country, with men’s boxer shorts releasing first and crop top bras on sale in the... Read moreThe post NHS partners with Morrisons to put cancer check advice in underwear appeared first on Nursing in Practice.
Source: Nursing in Practice - August 21, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Wiliam Hunter Tags: Cancer Latest news cancer prevention Source Type: news

Effects of community-based caring contact in reducing thwarted belongingness among postdischarge young adults with self-harm: randomized controlled trial - Law YW, Lok RHT, Chiang B, Lai CCS, Tsui SHM, Chung PYJ, Leung SC.
BACKGROUND: For patients with self-harm behaviors, the urge to hurt themselves persists after hospital discharge, leading to costly readmissions and even death. Hence, postdischarge intervention programs that reduce self-harm behavior among patients should...
Source: SafetyLit - August 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Risk and protective factors associated with self-cutting behavior among adolescents at first contact with the juvenile court - Meza JI, Folk J, Hoskins D, Kemp K, Tolou-Shams M.
This study utilized an ...
Source: SafetyLit - August 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Brickbat: You Can ' t Say That on Campus
Officials at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville have agreed to pay $80,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by Maggie DeJong, a graduate art therapy student, claiming the university violated her First Amendment rights. The school ordered DeJong to have no contact, even "indirect communication,"…#maggiedejong #firstamendment #dejong #christian #capitol #blm #campus #reasoncom
Source: Reuters: Health - August 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Russia ’s Luna-25 crashes into moon while India prepares landing
Roscosmos said over the weekend that the space agency lost all contact with Luna-25 and that the spacecraft had ‘ceased to exist’. Russia’s first attempt to land on the moon in 47 years has failed as the country’s space agency confirmed it lost contact with the Luna-25 spacecraft on Saturday (19…#roscosmos #irish #standardtime #sovieunion #soyuz #vostochny #russian #bbcnews #isro #moon
Source: Reuters: Health - August 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Morrisons' bras and pants carry NHS cancer check label
Underwear labels urge people to contact their GP if they spot symptoms of breast or testicular cancer.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - August 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Russia ’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon
Craft spun into ‘unpredictable’ orbit before planned touchdown could take place, Russia’s state space corporation saysRussia ’s first moon mission in 47 years has failed after its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the moon, dealing a significant setback to the embattled Russian space programme’s attempt to revive its Soviet-era prestige.The state space corporation Roscosmos said it had lost contact with the craft at 1157 GMT on Saturday after a problem as the craft was shunted into pre-landing orbit. A soft landing had been planned for Monday.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 20, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Roth and agencies Tags: Russia The moon Science Europe Space World news Source Type: news

' Kaputnik '
'Kaputnik' - Russia's First Moon-Landing Mission In 50 Years Ends In Disaster; India's Mission Remains On Schedule On September 14, 1959, The Soviet Union's Luna 2 spacecraft became the first man-made object to make contact with the Moon - slamming into its surface and completing its lunar…#missionremains #sovietunion #luna2 #ussr #nasa #apollo #neilarmstrong #buzzaldrin #statista #russian
Source: Reuters: Health - August 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

AHOD_NFNB I need to contact this Gent Dr. Adrian McCullagh, anyone know him? Along with that, I need a crypto #RiverKarma produced so we can put a global …
Source: Reuters: Health - August 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

~2,300 Pediatric Injuries From Ceiling Fans Seen in U.S. EDs Each Year
FRIDAY, Aug. 18, 2023 -- Approximately 2,300 pediatric head injuries from contact with ceiling fans are seen in U.S. emergency departments each year, according to research published online Aug. 17 in Pediatrics. Holly Hughes Garza, D.V.M., M.P.H.,...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - August 18, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

South Africa: TB Contact Tracing Helps Save Lives - This Is How It Works in SA
[spotlight] Globally an estimated 850 000 lives could be saved by 2035 if short-course tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy is provided to people living with HIV and contacts of individuals newly diagnosed with TB, a recent analysis published in the journal The Lancet Global Health found. 700 000 of those lives saved would be among children aged 15 years and younger.
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - August 18, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Tuberculosis Source Type: news

Consumer Health: Are you considering contact lenses?
Contact Lens Health Week will be observed Aug. 21 –25, which makes this a good time to learn more about contact lenses and whether they might be right for you. Eyeglasses can be fun and fashionable. And they're a safe and effective way to provide vision correction for most people. Contact lenses also can provide a safe and effective way to correct your vision, and more than 45 million people in the U.S. wear contact lenses, according to…
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - August 18, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

Mothers with poor mental health at greater risk of premature birth
Women who had contact with mental health services prior to their pregnancy are at greater risk of preterm birth by 50 per cent, research suggests. A study funded by the National Institute for Health Research found that women who had used mental health services at least once in the seven years prior to their pregnancy... Read moreThe post Mothers with poor mental health at greater risk of premature birth appeared first on Nursing in Practice.
Source: Nursing in Practice - August 17, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Wiliam Hunter Tags: Clinical Mental health Paediatrics Women's health maternal mental health Source Type: news

Teeth could preserve antibodies hundreds of years old, study finds
Teeth could be capable of preserving antibodies for hundreds of years, allowing scientists to investigate the history of infectious human diseases, a new study has found.Antibodies are proteins produced by the immune system as a natural response to infectious organisms like viruses and bacteria. Their job is to recognise those microbes so that the immune system can attack them and clear them from the body.In the new paper, published by iScience, antibodies extracted from 800 year-old medieval human teeth were found to be stable and still able to recognise viral proteins.The study, led by Professor Robert Layfield and ...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - August 17, 2023 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news

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