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Doing it for the ‘gram?

Clout chasers, beware! Zach is not about to let you use him to boost your following on the ‘gram. This week on The Bachelor, everyone traveled to the Bahamas, where one woman got the boot because she (allegedly) was not there for the Right Reasons™.

Let’s recap!

It’s morning at Casa Bachelor, and everyone’s pretty happy that Christina’s gone. Jesse Palmer arrives with some good news. “Get ready for your own slice of Paradise, ladies — because you’re going to the Bahamas!” The squeals are deafening. When the host informs the women that their flight leaves in an hour, he is almost trampled to death as they rush to pack.

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ABC Jesse, save yourself!

Somebody get that man a helmet!

Flash forward to their arrival at the (promotional consideration provided by) Baha Mar resort, where luxurious accommodations await. “Being in the Bahamas feels like a nice, fresh

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It’s ‘Telehealth vs. No Care’: Doctors Say Congress Risks Leaving Vulnerable Patients

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Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News

When the covid-19 pandemic hit, Dr. Corey Siegel was more prepared than most of his peers.

Half of Siegel’s patients — many with private insurance and Medicaid — were already using telehealth, logging onto appointments via phones or computers. “You get to meet their family members; you get to meet their pets,” Siegel said. “You see more into their lives than you do when they come to you.”

Siegel’s Medicare patients weren’t covered for telehealth visits until the pandemic drove Congress and regulators to temporarily pay for remote medical treatment just as they would in-person care.

Siegel, section chief for gastroenterology and hepatology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, is licensed in three states and many of his Medicare patients are frequently driving two to three hours round trip for appointments, “which isn’t a small feat,” he said .

The $1.7 trillion spending package Congress passed

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CDC recommends RSV shots, enabling vaccinations to begin this fall for older adults

Pfizer and GSK have a green light to distribute their RSV vaccines to older adults, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

That made the two vaccines the first for RSV to become publicly available in the US

The shots are expected to roll out in the fall — before the next RSV season, which typically peaks in the winter — the CDC said.

Last week, an advisory committee to the CDC decided that adults ages 65 and up may get one of the newly FDA-approved RSV vaccines in consultation with doctors. The committee voted 9-5 in favor of the recommendation.

The group also voted to recommend shots for adults ages 60 to 64 based on individual risk levels and in consultation with doctors.

The CDC’s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, endorsed the panel’s recommendations Thursday — the final step before the shots could become available to the public.

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Indigenous harm reduction project gets cash

An Indigenous-led harm reduction research project has been given about $1.2 million by Health Canada to investigate treatment options for people living with opioid use disorder.

“I’m very proud of this Indigenous-led, strategic, multi-partnered, research-backed, wellness and harm reduction project,” Roger Augustine, retired Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief for New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, said in a Wednesday’s statement.

Augustine is the founder of Gitpo Spirit Lodge, which is leading the project based in Natoaganeg, or Eel Ground, First Nation, in New Brunswick.

Gitpo Spirit Lodge, which opened in 2021, is an Indigenous wellness center focused on engaging with tradition to offer harm reduction and wellness programming.

The new pilot project will research the use of cannabinoid products by people currently receiving opioid agonist medications, which include methadone, naloxone or buprenorphine treatment.

Gitpo Spirit Lodge will work with Natoaganeg First Nation and Dr. Shelley Turner, a member of

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Older women with clogged arteries need better treatment

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Researchers say older women may need better treatments for clogged arteries. Dimitrije Tanaskovic/Stocksy
  • Atherosclerosis is a condition in which the arteries narrow due to a sticky buildup of plaque deposits.
  • Researchers say women over the age of 55 with this condition are at a higher risk of a cardiovascular event such as a heart attack than men in the same age group.
  • Experts say women of all ages can improve their cardiovascular health by maintaining healthy blood pressure and cholesterol levels as well as by not smoking.

Postmenopausal women who have clogged arteries are at higher risk of heart attack than men who are the same age.

That’s according to research being presented at the scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology that was published recently in the European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular imaging.

In their study, researchers said they found that having plaque is

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Healthy food beyond reach for many low-income Londoners: Health unit

Published April 20, 2023 • Last updated 2 days ago • 3 minute read

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Londoners on welfare seeking nutritious meals would spend nearly half their monthly income doing so, a new health unit report says, as stagnant social assistance rates and skyrocketing grocery costs put basic needs out of reach for the city’s poor.

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75 blueberries a day could help keep the brain healthy

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More evidence suggests that blueberries could help support brain and cardiovascular health. Image credit: Marvin Fox/Getty Images
  • Eating a handful of wild blueberries each day could strengthen cognitive and cardiovascular health, according to a new study.
  • The study found that blueberries’ anthocyanins are responsible for improving vascular and cerebral blood flow, which are some of the likely mechanisms behind healthy cognitive function.
  • Anthocyanins are polyphenols, a family of plant-based compounds increasingly associated with health benefits.

A cup of wild blueberries is more than a tasty snack, according to a new study from King’s College London Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine in the United Kingdom. It can also provide a brain boost, lower blood pressure, and contribute to better cardiovascular health.

The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial found that blueberry eaters exhibited improved executive function, strengthened short-term memory, and had faster reaction times.

Study participants who had a

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A glass of wine per day won’t kill you, a new study says

A new Canadian study of 4.8 million people says a daily alcoholic drink isn’t likely to send anyone to an early grave, nor will it offer any of the health benefits touted by previous studies, even if it is organic red wine.

Low and moderate drinkers have similar mortality rates to those who abstain entirely, explain researchers from the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research. On the other hand, women who enjoy more than one standard drink per day are at least 20 per cent more likely to die prematurely than female non-drinkers.

“In this updated systematic review and meta-analysis, daily low or moderate alcohol intake was not significantly associated with all-cause mortality risk,” the study’s authors wrote, “while increased risk was evident at higher consumption levels, starting at lower levels for women than men.”

Published Friday in the medical journal JAMA Open Network, the study comes on the heels

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Biggest Loser Winners Hannah Curlee and Olivia Ward 12 Years Later: ‘It’s a Continued Journey’

The Biggest Loser season 11 winner Olivia Ward and her sister, runner-up Hannah Curlee, had their lives changed forever when they competed on the show in 2011.

“I tell people, I feel like I won the weight loss lottery,” Ward, 47, tells PEOPLE exclusively.

Starting the show off at 261 lbs., Ward and Curlee, 44, who was at 248 lbs., both lost almost half their body weight during the competition, with Ward losing 129 lbs. and Curlee 120 lbs. More than a decade later, they say they feel lucky to have had the opportunity to participate in the once-controversial weight loss show.

“Losing the weight was wonderful,” Ward says. “But just to have that experience and to be around that type of expertise and that kind of support . . . what I left knowing that I had this incredible opportunity to pass on what had been given to me.

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Mitt Romney Has A Blunt Message For Marjorie Taylor Greene

Mon. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) dismissed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) call for a “national divorce” that would separate the blue states from the red ones.

“You know, I think Abraham Lincoln dealt with that kind of insanity,” Romney said on Tuesday, according to Deseret News. “We’re not going to divide the country. It’s united we stand, divided we fall.”

Greene, a conspiracy theorist and close ally of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, said under his plan red states could openly discriminate against LGBTQ people and strip Democrats who move to those states of basic voting rights, among other things.

Critics on both sides of the aisle have denounced the plan, with some calling it “treasonous” and “evil.”

But Greene, who spoke last year at a white nationalist event, isn’t backing down ― she is doubling down, getting a sympathetic ear from Sean Hannity on Fox News over the idea.

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