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  • NI Schools Take GIANT Steps Towards a Healthy Lifestyle

    NI Schools Take GIANT Steps Towards a Healthy Lifestyle

    Countless numbers of area most important university children in the Greater Belfast place will profit from a dedicated programme that will encourage more healthy existence alternatives. The Stena Line Belfast Giants, in partnership with local community outreach partner, Belfast Harbour, has introduced its Balanced Life-style Programme for 2022. 

    Jogging given that 2005, the Belfast Giants Healthy Way of life Programme is intended to persuade youthful individuals to undertake a balanced life style. Led by Belfast Giants assistant mentor, Jeff Mason, the programme promotes the relevance of seeking soon after the two mental and bodily perfectly-remaining by retaining a well balanced eating plan, acquiring plenty of snooze, and restricting pressure to attain a nutritious lifestyle.

    Open up to colleges in the Larger Belfast place, above 20 educational facilities have already signed up for the programme which includes Brooklands Main University, Dundonald, St. Joseph’s Most important Faculty, Dundonald, and Lisnasharragh Main School, Castlereagh. It is hoped the programme will be shipped to at minimum 1800 neighborhood schoolchildren and will run right up until the conclude of this academic calendar year in June.

    Launching the programme for 2022, Jeff Mason, assistant mentor for the Belfast Giants said: “Through this programme, we goal to share our personalized tales and expertise to inspire our younger people to understand the effect that getting relocating with exercising, and fuelling our bodies with a healthy well balanced diet plan, can have on our all round psychological wellbeing and physical wellbeing.

    “As a crew, we treatment about the communities close to us, and admit the great importance of working with our experience and reputation to encourage the youthful generations to consider techniques towards a much better upcoming.

    “We’re pleased to have Belfast Harbour on board as our formal local community outreach spouse and look forward to operating with each other to assistance encourage our younger people to make much healthier alternatives.”

    Speaking of the partnership, Allison Dowling, communications and internet marketing director at Belfast Harbour claimed: “As the official community outreach partner for the crew we are searching ahead to supporting the Belfast Giants in building a positive impression in our community communities.

    “Through our aid of the Belfast Giants Healthy Life style Schools’ Programme, we are happy to contribute to inspiring our more youthful generations to make more healthy selections that will have a positive impression on their mental and physical wellbeing.”

    There’s nevertheless time for educational institutions to sign-up for the Belfast Giants Healthier Way of life Schools’ programme. The programme is open up to all primary colleges within just the Larger Belfast spot. For even more data or to signal up, educational institutions must contact Laura Smaller, connection and business enterprise development supervisor, The Odyssey Have confidence in by emailing – [email protected].

  • France Enters The Medical Cannabis Industry

    France Enters The Medical Cannabis Industry

    France tiptoes into the health-related hashish sector, but legalization wants to be implemented.

    The French government issued a decree very last thirty day period that authorizes the cultivation of medical cannabis and the growth of its sector.

    Whilst the decree entered into drive on March 1, 2022, regulators need to apply it.

    The laws only specifies the problems and techniques for the cultivation and generation of cannabis for health care use.

    The decree has amended some sections of France’s Code of General public Wellbeing to allow for cultivation, manufacturing, manufacture, transport, import, export, and possession of hashish and its derivatives beneath health-related authorization.

    The Nationwide Company for the Safety of Medications and Wellbeing Items (ANSM) will supervise the creation of the professional medical cannabis provide chain.

    The agency has also established up a committee made up of 11 associates to look at various features of the source chain, such as the identification of the cannabis strains obtainable for the professional medical treatment, the degree of THC and CBD, monitor and trace techniques, the solutions of ingesting cannabis-based mostly medicines, and the pharmaceutical good quality standards.

    The decree follows a professional medical cannabis pilot task declared in 2020 and released in March 2021, which is at this time focusing on up to 3,000 clients suffering from extreme problems, these kinds of as serious suffering and epilepsy, and it will continue on to operate, supervised by the ANSM, until finally March 26, 2023.

    France imported health-related cannabis from abroad to support its pilot venture. Nevertheless, it is even now unclear no matter if non-French cannabis companies will keep on to be associated in the sector that ANSM will create.

    As the decree looks to create an field shaped on the pharmaceutical sector and the medically licensed (EU-GMP) offer chain, it is unclear regardless of whether hashish bouquets will be utilised as the final item for sufferers.

    Also, some industry experts emphasize that France would set up a confined industry.

    As the ANSM will be the only industrial operator to delegate the output of health care cannabis, some authorities argue that the company may possibly opt for a single industrial operator to delegate the creation to a restricted selection of producers, which could limit accessibility to professional medical hashish.

    Such a situation may well be comparable to the Italian health care cannabis sector, which lacks domestic output and desires to import hashish from abroad.

    These a caution to enter the clinical cannabis sector can be discussed by the severe French policies on hashish.

    France has 1 of the strictest hashish insurance policies in the European Union (EU), whilst it has just one of the highest hashish consumption costs in Europe.

    Whoever possesses cannabis could facial area a jail sentence of up to 1 yr and a high-quality of around $4,000. Illegal cannabis import, export, transportation, possession, supply, and shipping and delivery can be billed with better penalties.

    However, France rolled out an on-the-location high-quality of €200 in 2020, reducible to €150 if paid inside of 15 times or amplified to €450 if compensated after 45 days.

    Nevertheless, this sort of severe insurance policies also have an effect on the patients who could use clinical hashish.

    France authorized in 2013 the use of hashish derivatives in the making of medicinal solutions less than prescription and only when no other treatments really don’t make gain the patient’s struggling.

    Even with regards to the CBD field, the plan adopted by the French federal government is extreme.

    While France is the primary producer of hemp in the EU, most vegetation are made use of for industrial uses.

    Nevertheless, the sale of CBD-dependent strike the sector in France, and CBD stores flourished in modern a long time. But as the sale of CBD bouquets is not controlled, it has been the object of political worry in new several years.

    CBD is lawful to be only sold if it includes no THC. Normally, it may be thought of a narcotic drug by the authorities.

    As a end result, the sale of CBD bouquets has been subjected to limitations.

    French courts focused CBD stores. On the other hand, the European court docket ruled in later on 2020 that France’s ban on CBD solutions was illegal simply because CBD “doesn’t hurt human health.”

    Nonetheless, the French govt tried yet again to introduce the ban in December very last calendar year. Still, a French courtroom stated that there experienced been significant question about the lawful position of the CBD ban, taking into consideration that the flower solutions contained a THC degree beneath .3{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} THC, and these a threshold designed it attainable to promote them legally.

    Even though the National Assembly, the reduced house of the bicameral French parliament, introduced an on the internet session on recreational cannabis legalization in January 2021 to present data about the French public’s sights about cannabis and enable understand what drug insurance policies folks want, it is not likely that thegovernment would apply a recreational software at this time.

    It is even now as well early to comprehend how the French professional medical cannabis market place will be formed. Although Canadian and American professional medical hashish providers might currently create a foothold in France, the deficiency of political will to relieve constraints on hashish insurance policies could hamper the French professional medical hashish field from taking flight.

  • Better nursing home care will require more workers

    Better nursing home care will require more workers


    Jordan Rau

    Kaiser Health News

    The Biden administration has identified core impediments to better nursing home care in its proposed overhaul of the industry, but turning aspirations into reality will require a complex task: mandating adequate staffing levels for all homes without bankrupting those that can’t afford far higher labor costs.

    President Joe Biden’s proposals for the nation’s 15,000 skilled nursing facilities — released in advance of his State of the Union address last week — would lead to the most substantial increase in federal nursing home regulation since Congress reformed the industry in 1987. The centerpiece of the effort is establishing minimum staffing levels for facilities. To date, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires “adequate” staffing but specifically mandates only a skeleton crew of round-the-clock nursing coverage and one registered nurse who works at least eight hours each day.

    CMS has rebuffed requests to mandate higher staffing levels in the past, saying each facility should “make thoughtful, informed staffing plans.” But multiple examinations — including a thorough CMS study in 2001 — have concluded staffing levels are frequently inadequate, particularly on nights and weekends. Studies have found that homes with higher staffing levels have fewer patient injuries. The 2001 study set a standard that many nursing homes currently don’t meet, saying optimal care required roughly one staffer for every seven short-stay patients — like those recovering from a hospital stay — and one staffer for every six long-stay residents.

    Biden is ordering CMS to conduct a similar study and incorporate it into a formal proposal within a year.

    “We would not be surprised to see that number [of staffers] be higher in a new study because we know the care needs for residents and acuity levels have actually increased over the last 20 years,” said Lori Smetanka, executive director of the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, which advocates for older people who get services in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and at home.

    Requiring adequate staffing levels won’t solve the problem many homes face in finding and retaining nurses and aides, a systemic issue made worse by the pandemic. And it’s likely that many facilities — particularly those with the largest share of Medicaid residents — would struggle to afford substantial increases in their workforces.

    “Regulations and enforcement, even with the best intentions, just can’t change that math,” Katie Smith Sloan, president and CEO of LeadingAge, an association of nonprofit aging service providers, said in a statement. Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of the American Health Care Association, the largest nursing-home lobbying group, said in a statement that “we cannot meet additional staffing requirements when we can’t find people to fill the open positions nor when we don’t have the resources to compete against other employers.”

    Much of Biden’s plan promises to dig deeper into the finances of homes and make that information publicly available. “It’s just been so complicated,” said David Grabowski, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. “They’re going to finally determine who owns this building, what the arrangements are there, how the dollars really flow. That’s essential. We should have done this years ago.”

    The proposal would also task the government with examining the role of private equity and real estate investment trusts in buying and selling facilities. Some studies have concluded that ownership by those types of investors leads to smaller budgets and worse care. And Biden is calling for tracking the quality and finances of nursing home chains, in addition to facility by facility as is the current practice.

    “We’ve been urging that for 15 or 20 years,” said Charlene Harrington, a professor emeritus at the University of California-San Francisco School of Nursing. Harrington, who has long pushed for staffing increases and better financial disclosure, said, “Everything’s going to hang on the implementation, but I’m so happy they’re going to focus on the transparency issues.”

    The administration said it wanted Congress to give it the authority to ban from the Medicare and Medicaid programs facilities owned by people or corporations with terrible track records of running facilities. And Biden is asking Congress to give CMS almost $500 million more for inspections, a 25 percent increase, and hike the maximum fine for an individual violation from $21,000 to $1 million. That particularly targets habitually poor-performing facilities, which are subjected to more intense oversight through the Special Focus Facility program. A 2017 KHN investigation found that more than half of homes in the program harmed patients or put them in serious jeopardy after CMS declared them improved.

    Most of the changes will not require congressional approval. And the administration said it would “explore” increasing the use of fines deployed each day a home is in violation, an approach that the Trump administration had limited.

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  • Indiana coronavirus updates for March 7, 2022

    Indiana coronavirus updates for March 7, 2022

    The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic for Monday, March 7, 2022.

    INDIANAPOLIS — Here are Monday’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic, including the latest news on COVID-19 vaccinations and testing in Indiana.

    Registrations for the vaccine are now open for Hoosiers 5 and older through the Indiana State Department of Health. This story will be updated over the course of the day with more news on the COVID-19 pandemic.

    RELATED: Here’s everything we know about the COVID-19 vaccine

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    Franciscan Health adjusts visitation policies

    With COVID-19 coronavirus cases dropping in central Indiana and the number of patients hospitalized with the virus also on the decline, Franciscan Health is relaxing its visitor policies for the four medical campuses in Indianapolis, Mooresville and Carmel.

    The following policies will go into effect 9 a.m. Monday, March 7:

    • Patients will be allowed two visitors at a time during visiting hours, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.  All ages are now permitted as visitors.
    • Active screening of visitors for COVID-like symptoms is being discontinued. Visitors should self-screen for COVID symptoms and only visit the hospital if symptom-free.
    • All visitors 2 and older are required to wear an unvented face mask. Visitors without an unvented mask will be provided one upon entering the hospital.
    • Visitors should continue to observe social distancing and practice good hand hygiene. 

    The new policies were defined with input from the Franciscan Alliance leadership and guidelines from the CDC, Indiana Department of Health and Marion County Health Department.

    Purdue to relax mask protocols in classes, research spaces

    Purdue University announced it will drop its mask mandate and move to mask optional beginning March 14. This means masks won’t be required in classrooms or research spaces. 

    However, the university did say masks will still be required in health care settings and where contractually required. Masks also continue to be required as apart of the quarantine process for those infected or exposed to COVID-19.

    The university’s decision was made based on data showing declining COVID-19 cases, current CDC guidance and the high rate of vaccinations among the campus community. According to Purdue, the campus is now 90{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} vaccinated. 

    Free vaccines and boosters will continue to be available at no cost at Purdue’s campus vaccine clinic. The university will also continue to provide free N95 and KN95 masks throughout campus.  

    Global death toll tops 6 million as pandemic enters 3rd year

    The official global death toll from COVID-19 is topped 6 million people early Monday — underscoring that the pandemic, now in its third year, is far from over.

    The milestone is the latest tragic reminder of the unrelenting nature of the pandemic even as people are shedding masks, travel is resuming and businesses are reopening around the globe. The death toll, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, stood at 6,000,097 at 5:30 a.m. ET Monday.

    Latest US, world numbers

    There have been more than 79.27 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States as of 5:30 a.m. Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University. There have been more than 958,620 deaths recorded in the U.S.

    Worldwide, there have been more than 446.36 million confirmed coronavirus cases with 6 million deaths and more than 10.59 billion vaccine doses administered.


    For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness like pneumonia, or death.

    RELATED: Global COVID death toll hits 6 million in 2 years of pandemic

    Marion County COVID-19 vaccination and test clinics continue

    The Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD) continues to provide free COVID-19 vaccination and testing to anyone interested in receiving these services.

    MCPHD is operating one COVID-19 testing site, which is a drive-thru clinic located at at 3838 N. Rural Street in Indianapolis.

    The clinic’s current hours are Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. This clinic offers PCR testing only and no rapid testing. A list of additional test sites registered with the Indiana Department of Health is available at Coronavirus.IN.gov.

    Appointments for COVID-19 testing at the MCPHD location are not required but are available by visiting MarionHealth.org/indycovid or calling 317-221-5515.

    MCPHD is also offering COVID-19 vaccines at its district health offices, ACTION Health Center, and four other locations in Marion County. Appointments for vaccines are not required but are recommended. 

    Please visit OurShot.IN.gov or call 2-1-1 to find a vaccination clinic.

    Marion County March clinic schedule

    • Northeast District Health Office, 6042 E. 21st St.
      Mondays: 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.
      Tuesdays: 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.
      Saturday, March 26 only, 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
    • Eagledale Plaza Health Office, 2802 Lafayette Rd.
      Tuesdays: 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
    • Northwest District Health Office, 6940 N. Michigan Rd.
      Thursdays: 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.
      Saturday, March 19 only: 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
    • South District Health Office, 7551 S. Shelby St.
      Mondays: 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.
      Fridays: 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
      Saturday, March 12 only: 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
    • ACTION Health Center, 2868 N. Pennsylvania St.
      Wednesdays: 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
    • Martindale-Brightwood Public Library Branch, 2435 N. Sherman Dr. (ages 12-over only)
      Tuesday through Friday: 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
      Saturdays: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
    • College Avenue Public Library Branch, 4180 N. College Ave. (ages 12-over only)
      Tuesday through Friday: 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
      Saturdays: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
    • East 38th Street Public Library Branch, 5420 E. 38th St.  (ages 12-over only)
      Tuesday through Friday: 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
      Saturdays: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
    • IndyGo Carson Transit Center, 201 E. Washington St.  (ages 12-over only)
      Tuesdays: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
      Wednesdays: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
      Thursdays: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. 

    How to order more free COVID-19 test kits from US government 

    Starting next week, the U.S. government will allow Americans to order another round of free at-home COVID-19 tests.

    The second round of orders will begin next week allowing two separate orders of an additional four tests, eight tests total, to be placed.

    President Joe Biden announced the second round of orders will begin during Tuesday’s State of the Union address.

    During the first round of orders back in January, 500,00 tests were available, but nearly half of those tests remain unclaimed.

    To order the at-home tests, you can visit this USPS website starting next week and fill out the required information. All orders will ship completely free.

  • How to keep your brain sharp in your 60s and beyond

    How to keep your brain sharp in your 60s and beyond

    It is surely fantastic information for any one in their 40s or 50s. A 2022 review from Heidelberg College in Germany has uncovered that psychological functionality does without a doubt increase in the course of childhood and adolescence, in advance of peaking in the mid-20s, – however that it stays rather continual all over your 30s, 40s and 50s (relatively than declining as normally considered).

    Researchers tracked the psychological general performance of 1.2 million people today, aged between 10 and 80, between 2016 and 2018. Volunteers have been asked to full significant-velocity mental assessments in a person, words and photos flashed on a laptop monitor and volunteers have been questioned to type them into one of two classes, these as “good” or “bad”, by pushing buttons.

    As a professor of medical gerontology at Trinity University, Dublin, I have expended 35 many years investigating the scientific will cause and implications of ageing on the mind a topic I explore in my reserve, Age Proof. About that time, I have go through pretty much each individual suitable analyze. And I can say that these results, published in the excellent journal Mother nature Human Conduct, are sturdy and convincing.

    The success differed sharply from prior investigation. Partly, this can be discussed by methodology. Preceding scientific studies on mind ageing tended to compare a person team of grown ups in their 20s with another group in their 60s or 70s. If people in their 70s carried out worse than their youthful counterparts, researchers would in some cases think that mental efficiency steadily fell in the intervening decades.

    But this most up-to-date analyze from Heidelberg College rather looked at a spectrum of ages – and identified that psychological performance is significantly far more continual than formerly imagined.

    Those people past reports also tended to appear at just a person aspect of mental effectiveness: reaction time. Volunteers could possibly have been asked to click on a button every time a distinct letter arrived up on their display screen. But which is something of a blunt software. An more mature individual could possibly have weaker hand muscle groups, for illustration, building their motion slower – even while their mental pace is the exact same as a young person’s.

    It’s also possible today’s 60-calendar year-previous is simply just more mentally agile, on regular, than any person who was 60 in the Seventies or Eighties. Our publicity to technological innovation has possibly boosted our cognitive functions, as has the escalating attractiveness of puzzles and brain online games.

    And even once you turn 60, psychological decrease is not unavoidable. But how can it be prevented?

    The very best methods to retain your intellect sharp in 2022

    Exercise

  • 3 scalp care tips to give you your healthiest hair yet

    3 scalp care tips to give you your healthiest hair yet

    If your hair is experience a minimal lacklustre and just is not participating in ball, it may perhaps be a signal that the wellness of your scalp needs addressing. Just like our faces, the pores and skin on the scalp wants normal TLC to keep in the best possible ailment.

    From exfoliating therapies to swapping your hairbrush, below we share a few uncomplicated means to a happy, healthier head.

    1. Swap to scalp-pleasant haircare

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    ‘Scalp wellness is immediately linked to hair well being, so we should think of it as the soil that our hair grows out of,’ clarifies trichologist Mark Blake. ‘We address our faces with costly experience creams and exfoliants but we seem to be to draw an invisible line close to our foreheads – where the scalp is anticipated to just treatment for itself.’

    So, how can you start off to give your scalp the consideration it deserves? A great place to start off is with dedicated haircare this sort of as Nioxin’s Program Kits that each individual appear with a scalp-pleasant shampoo, conditioner and leave-in therapy.

    NIOXIN’s 3-aspect Method Kit, for occasion, makes a healthy surroundings for hair expansion with a concentrated mix of age defying botanicals and humectants that assistance to take out sebum and fatty acids from the scalp. When used regularly, this system can enhance your hair’s composition, cultivate a thicker-looking overall look and protect from even further breakage.

    2. Use a light hair brush

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    Metallic-pronged or bristle brushes can be incredibly harsh on the head and can bring about more discomfort if you have a specially delicate scalp. In its place, choose for a brush with pure bristles or mild prongs built from plastic. Silicone brushes are a different wonderful choice that assist to preserve the scalp pleased.

    The Manta hairbrush, for occasion, was made by hairdresser Tim Binnington after his wife commenced to get rid of her hair. Developed to minimise breakages, it cares for the hair and scalp with soft bristles that are free from tough edges and really don’t catch or tear the hair shaft. Each bristle is also cleverly made with revolutionary patented Flexguard technology to make sure the hair never ever reaches the stress point that will cause it to break.

    3. Raise blood flow with a dermaroller or massage

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    If you’ve at any time made use of a derma roller on your encounter, you are going to know that it can be a truly effective way of rejuvenating and boosting production of collagen by developing microscopic wounds on the skin. But have you at any time considered about working with one on your scalp?

    ‘I’m a significant supporter of dermarolling the scalp,’ states Mark. ‘It’s critical that you use a unique device for each individual location, as your confront is usually a little bit cleaner than your scalp, but pricking the pores and skin will help hurry blood to the place.’

    Not a fan of needles, no make a difference how little? Do not fret, a scalp therapeutic massage can have identical blood-boosting benefits.

    Mark explains that quite a few of Nioxin’s professional scalp goods such as the shampoos and conditioners are also made with this plan in mind, so they consist of substances such as peppermint oil, which stimulates the scalp and drives blood to its surface. This tends to make them an suitable enhance to dermarolling or a head therapeutic massage.

    Never let a undesirable hair day turn into a bad hair everyday living. With normal care by means of exfoliation or devoted therapies, your scalp and hair ought to commence to feel much healthier and far more well balanced.

    Searching for optimum scalp care Shop Nioxin’s Nioxin’s specialised treatment plans and styling merchandise below

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