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When it comes to health, we love small and simple interventions that have significant impacts. A new study shows that check-in text messages sent after emergency care from a primary care team can significantly decrease hospital readmission rates.Of course, a text can't diagnose or treat medical conditions, but it does seem that this little nudge does help discharged patients take a moment to consider how their health is recovering and how they're adjusting to any new treatments.The follow-up texts, sent over 30 days,…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIt’s Avengers to the rescue in the comments section of Jeremy Renner’s first social media post since he was run over by a snow plough on Sunday.The actor underwent two surgeries at a Nevada hospital after he was hit by a 14,000lb snow plough, which he was using to help clear neighbours’ driveways.The Hawkeye star shared a selfie from his hospital bed Tuesday (3 January) with the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeInjured Jeremy Renner has shared a photo from his hospital bed as he recovers from being run over by a snow plow on New Year’s Day near his Nevada home.“Thank you all for your kind words. I’m too messed up now to type. But I send love to you all,” wrote the Marvel actor on Instagram.Renner posted the photo at the same time Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam held a press conference on…

Uber and Airbnb have long been the poster children for the sharing economy. In other realms of society, entrepreneurs are also trying to match demand with untapped assets and services. HD, a startup based out of Bangkok, is applying the economic model to healthcare in Southeast Asia. HD operates a platform that helps three parties meet: surgeons with private practice, patients looking to have their surgeries done more cheaply, and vacant surgery rooms at hospitals. The model might sound a bit counterintuitive to…

One of the world’s has issued a rare apology after claiming that one of its partners was responsible for a cyberattack on Canada’s largest pediatric hospital. On December 18th, the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto fell victim to a ransomware attack that left the institution unable to access many of its critical systems. The incident led to an increase in patient wait times. As of December 29th, SickKids it had regained access to almost 50 percent of its priority systems, including those that had caused…

Ransomware group Hive could be behind the attack, after the group published the Lake Charles Memorial Health System’s name to its website.Image: Thaiview (Shutterstock)The only thing scarier than America’s privatized healthcare system is America’s privatized healthcare system getting hacked. Well, I have bad news—Lake Charles Memorial Health System in Louisiana has been the subject of a ransomware attack, potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of patients.Lake Charles Memorial Health System is a hospital network…

Pelé, who is a soccer legend, will spend the Christmas holidays in a hospital after learning his cancer has progressed.  The three-time World Cup winner, whose real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, has been undergoing chemotherapy in his battle against cancer since September 2021 when he had a colon tumor removed.  His daughter, Kelly Cristina Nascimento, took to Instagram on Thursday to share the change of plans for the holidays, writing, “Our Christmas at home has been suspended. We decided…

One of the two survivors of the horrific crash that claimed the innocent lives of Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry and Jehangir Pandole – Dr. Anahita Pandole has now been discharged after 108 days from the H N Reliance Foundation Hospital. Dr. Anahita who was in the driving seat at the time of the accident was booked by Kasa police in Palghar on November 5 for breaking multiple Indian penal code provisions. Dr. Anahita was charged under sections of the Motor Vehicles Act and the Indian Penal Code that relate to…

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The number of available Los Angeles County hospital beds has fallen to its lowest level of the pandemic, the result not only of the enduring threat of COVID-19 and the reemergence of flu and RSV, but also the needs of a populace that put off non-emergency care.Based on data collected from 90 hospitals, there were 242 adult beds available countywide as of Monday, L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer told reporters Thursday. And, she added, “the average number of available beds so far in December is the lowest…