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EPA and SEMARNAT Commit to Improving Environment and Public Health Along the U.S.-Mexico Border
May 13, 2022 WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its counterpart in Mexico, the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), virtually held their first public National Coordinators meeting under the Border 2025 U.S.-Mexico Environmental Program. The National Coordinators for the U.S. and Mexico shared their environmental priorities of tackling climate, addressing environmental justice and equity, and being more inclusive of Mexico’s indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities in solving environmental challenges. “Binational collaboration is key in tackling environmental and public health challenges along the U.S.-Mexico border,” said Assistant Administrator for the Office of International and Tribal Affairs Jane Nishida. “EPA is committed to working with our counterparts…
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Your Cancer Answers: What is skin cancer mindfulness? | Health & Fitness
Joshua J. Marine said “challenges are what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” You can live a fulfilling life, no matter what comes up next, because you have overcome challenges, be it cancer or not, you have the right frame of mind and you know how to figure out the best action plan. If not identified at an early stage, melanoma has a high rate of morbidity and mortality. The mainstay of surgical intervention and the newest immunotherapeutic innovations in oncology are improving the fight. Nonetheless, the easiest way to live a life free from malignant melanoma, is to never have it. The next best…
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Crooked Creek Trap Team aims for fun, self-improvement
Subhead Recap of season speaks to highs, lows of competition Body Fifty-two members of the Crooked Creek Trap Team have completed their season for 2021-2022, finishing with flying colors.Though there were no medals at the state championship in Doniphan April 24, the junior and senior teams had their own highlights with the juniors winning runner-up five weeks in a row and two members of the senior team each receiving $500 scholarships. “Throughout the six weeks of competition we had several kids win awards and increase their personal best scores and just get better over the course of the season,” said coach and organizer of the Crooked Creek Trap Team Katie Scott.…
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Ferris, Texas launching free healthcare program
City manager Brooks Williams says the plan will provide mental and physical healthcare that provide “convenience, consistency and efficiency” at no cost to residents FERRIS, Texas — The city of Ferris, southeast of Dallas, has announced a unanimous approval for residents to receive free healthcare. According to city manager Brooks Williams, Ferris is the first city in the state, and the country to do something like this. He said funding for the “Access For All” solution won’t come from taxpayers or Ferris’ general fund. Instead, it’ll be paid for with funding from the federal government’s American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. RELATED: Couple falls in love while recovering from heart,…
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It matters how your practice is paid. A primer for young doctors.
It might be tough for many U.S. medical schools and residency programs to find space in their congested curricula to cover how doctors get paid, but knowledge of it is central to the transition to practice. Lots of physicians today enter the workforce unclear on how health care is paid for, how payments influence the decisions they make and even how their practice’s payment types can affect their career goals. An AMA STEPS Forward®toolkit explores the pros, cons and other details of practices by payment type. It also provides breakdowns of the pros and cons of various practice settings and the steps to take to decide where to practice. The…
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Words of wisdom from three leaders in the environmental health and justice field
Over the years, we have had countless conversations about our shared research, the field of environmental health, ethical science, the lack of diversity in our field, and how to become successful environmental health and justice researchers. These last two points have been particularly salient as early-career researchers. Success as a researcher can be elusive — and job security is not a guarantee. We have seen faculty and students leave or be pushed out. We are speculating about the reasons for these departures, but we believe that some may be due to inadequate financial, social, and emotional support by institutions and individuals. Most of these individuals were people of color or…
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Kehlani’s Songs of Self-Improvement | The New Yorker
The singer-songwriter Kehlani spent the first few years of their music career oscillating between their teen-pop origins and their more provocative R. & B. ambitions. The performer’s songs consistently glowed with romantic possibility, thanks primarily to the warm, lovely undertones of their incandescent voice, and their ability to find nuance in even the most destructive dalliances. Kehlani’s first studio album, “SweetSexySavage,” from 2017, was a buoyant record of play and seduction, and with each subsequent release they seemed to unpack their own curiosities and identity. Like many young contemporary R. & B. musicians, Kehlani traded in the specificities of millennial situationships: reprimanding a date for tweeting out the details of…
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Opinion | When Health Care Workers Are Protected, Patients Are, Too
America was in a health care crisis before Covid, and the stresses of the pandemic have made it worse. Since the pandemic began, the health care work force — the country’s largest industry by employment — has shrunk by nearly 2 percent. That may seem like a small amount, but historically, the health care work force doesn’t shrink; it only grows. Now, with astronomical turnover and rising demand as patients seek care that they may have put off during the height of the pandemic, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and home care agencies across the country lack sufficient staff members to adequately care for patients. The health care system, before it…
