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DATE: February 21, 2025 at 10:27AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

TITLE: U.S. Government Cuts 1 in 10 Workers at Mental Health Agency

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Source: CBS News - Health

More than 10% of the staff working for the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration were fired this month as part of the U.S. government-wide cuts ordered by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, task force. The cuts amounted to around 100 staff members, including those working on projects related to the 988 hotline for people facing mental health crises, which the agency oversees.

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DATE: February 21, 2025 at 10:47AM
SOURCE: HEALTHCAREITNEWS.COM

TITLE: Roundup: AI and cloud tackle cyber risk and improve workflows

URL: healthcareitnews.com/news/roun

Cleveland Clinic will roll out ambient documentation software while Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center leverages algorithms to accelerate cancer treatment. Censinet launches tools to keep up with the pace of health AI adoption.

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Healthcare IT News · Roundup: AI and cloud tackle cyber risk and improve workflowsCleveland Clinic will roll out ambient documentation software while Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center leverages algorithms to accelerate cancer treatment. Censinet launches tools to keep up with the pace of health AI adoption.

"For general hospital beds that are not ICU-level, many consider a bed shortage to occur at an 85 percent national hospital occupancy, marked by unacceptably long waiting times in emergency departments, medication errors and other in-hospital adverse events...If the U.S. were to sustain a national hospital occupancy of 85 percent or greater, it is likely that we would see tens to hundreds of thousands of excess American deaths each year."

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A patient lies in a hospital bed
Newsweek · US warned of 2032 hospital crisisA growing shortage of beds may end up seeing "tens to hundreds of thousands of excess American deaths each year," researchers said.

"The Wall Street Journal said federal officials have launched a civil fraud investigation into how the company records diagnoses that lead to extra payments for its Medicare Advantage plans. Those are privately run versions of the government’s Medicare coverage program mostly for people ages 65 and over."
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MPR News · UnitedHealth shares dive after report of U.S. investigation into Medicare billingBy The Associated Press

DATE: February 21, 2025 at 10:17AM
SOURCE: BECKERS CYBERSECURITY HEALTH IT

TITLE: 1 year later: The Change Healthcare cyberattack and its lasting impact on healthcare

URL: beckershospitalreview.com/cybe

One year after a cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealthcare, the breach—which exposed the personal and health data of 190 million individuals—has been deemed the largest in healthcare history.

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www.beckershospitalreview.com1 year later: The Change Healthcare cyberattack and its lasting impact on healthcare

DATE: February 20, 2025 at 04:50PM
SOURCE: BECKERS CYBERSECURITY HEALTH IT

TITLE: Top 5 cybersecurity concerns for healthcare in 2025

URL: beckershospitalreview.com/cybe

Ransomware deployments were listed as healthcare executives' and cybersecurity professionals' top concern for 2025, according to a Feb. 18 report from Health-ISAC.

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www.beckershospitalreview.comTop 5 cybersecurity concerns for healthcare in 2025

DATE: February 21, 2025 at 10:15AM
SOURCE: PSYCHIATRIC TIMES

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Managing acute late-pregnancy psychosis presents unique challenges for clinicians. Check out our latest case report, exploring a planned induction of labor in a patient experiencing acute late-pregnancy psychosis. t.co/HrsVjC4r6l

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Psychiatric Times · Planned Induction of Labor in a Patient With Acute Late-Pregnancy Psychosis: A Case ReportBy Cecilia A. Westbrook, MD, PhD

DATE: February 21, 2025 at 10:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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TITLE: Girls with anorexia have increased neural activation to fearful faces

URL: psypost.org/girls-with-anorexi

A recent neuroimaging study of adolescent females with anorexia nervosa reported increased neural activation in the somatomotor cortex when viewing fearful faces following short-term weight recovery. There were no differences in reactivity to neutral, angry, or surprised faces. The paper was published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.

Anorexia nervosa is a serious eating disorder characterized by an intense fear of gaining weight, a distorted body image, and extreme restriction of food intake. People with anorexia tend to perceive themselves as overweight even when they are underweight. They often engage in excessive dieting, fasting, or compulsive exercise to lose weight.

The condition can lead to severe malnutrition, muscle wasting, heart problems, and other life-threatening complications. Psychological factors, such as perfectionism, low self-esteem, and anxiety disorders, also contribute to its development. Without proper intervention, anorexia has one of the highest mortality rates among psychiatric disorders due to complications like organ failure and suicide.

Study author Lukas Stanetzky and his colleagues noted that problems with emotion recognition and regulation might play an important role in anorexia. Anxiety disorders occur in approximately two out of three patients with anorexia and worsen long-term outcomes. These anxiety symptoms tend to decrease after individuals with anorexia restore some weight.

To better understand the role of emotion recognition and regulation in anorexia, the authors conducted a neuroimaging study examining brain activation in individuals with anorexia when exposed to pictures of faces displaying different emotions. They compared these neural responses to those of healthy individuals.

The study included 22 adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa recruited from the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy at University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany. These participants underwent neuroimaging once after admission during acute starvation (caused by anorexia) and a second time after discharge following short-term weight restoration (i.e., after regaining some of the weight lost). The control group consisted of 27 healthy participants recruited from local high schools around Aachen.

Participants completed assessments for eating disorders (using the Eating Disorder Inventory 2), depression, and anxiety. They also underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing a face-matching task. In this task, participants were shown sets of human faces expressing fear, surprise, anger, or neutrality, and they were asked to select, from two faces presented, the one that matched the target face.

The results showed that participants with anorexia exhibited significantly increased neural activation in the somatomotor cortex when viewing fearful faces after weight recovery (at the time of discharge). There were no differences in neural reactions to angry, neutral, or surprised faces.

“Higher somatomotor activity could represent anxiety-induced preparations for motor reactions (e.g., fight or flight) that are more pronounced in more affected patients. These results align with recent models of AN [anorexia nervosa] that increasingly incorporate anxiety into the pathophysiological and prognostic model of AN and help elucidate its underlying neurological mechanisms,” study authors concluded.

The study sheds light on the neural underpinnings of anorexia nervosa in adolescent girls. However, it should be noted that the study design does not allow for any causal inferences to be drawn from the data. Therefore, it remains uncertain whether the changes in neural activation patterns are a consequence of weight gain, a result of anorexia nervosa, or caused by some other factor not included in the study.

The paper, “Longitudinal changes in neural responses to fearful faces in adolescents with anorexia nervosa – A fMRI study,” was authored by Lukas Stanetzky, Arne Hartz, Kimberly Buettgen, Brigitte Dahmen, Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann, Kerstin Konrad, and Jochen Seitz.

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PsyPost · Girls with anorexia have increased neural activation to fearful facesBy Vladimir Hedrih

The investigation is focused on UnitedHealth’s #Medicare billing practices. It’s evaluating protocols for recording diagnoses that can lead to extra payments on the co’s Medicare Advantage plans.

This civil probe is sep. from a DOJ antitrust probe *sued to stop UH’s acquisition of Amedisys, citing antitrust concerns.

UH: the WSJ reported: “misinformation” about its MDCR ADV PROG. The co noted that the govt regularly evaluates plans tied to the PROG.

#USPol #Healthcare cnbc.com/2025/02/21/unitedheal

DATE: February 21, 2025 at 09:06AM
SOURCE: HEALTHCARE INFO SECURITY

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What are the top data #privacy and #security worries involving #telehealth? t.co/l3Ah79PDcv

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📢 In #homs, Syria's largest governorate, healthcare is severely strained due to a decade of conflict and the return of displaced populations and returnees.

This has led to severely constrained access to #healthcare services. #hospitals

#syria #emergencyresponse

With funding from the government of #japan – and in collaboration with the Ministry of Health – 🔵 UNOPS has been working to rehabilitate Homs Grand Hospital.

📑 Report by UNOPS (prime source) 👇🏽

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UNOPS rehabilitates Homs Grand Hospital, providing a much-needed lifeline for the Syrian people.
UNOPSProviding vital healthcare for half a million SyriansUNOPS rehabilitates Homs Grand Hospital, providing a much-needed lifeline for the Syrian people.

DATE: February 21, 2025 at 08:30AM
SOURCE: BioWorld MedTech

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.@bostonsci obtains #CEmark for #Farapulse navigation mapping system

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#medtech #afib #AF

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t.coBoston Sci obtains CE mark for Farapulse navigation mapping systemBy Shani Alexander

LOL

I've got the network news playing (CBS Mornings) and the person talking about Luigi Mangione is comparing him to Charles Manson and calling his "fans" a cult.

Of course they gushed over Brian Thompson even though he institutionally murdered so many.

No Gayle King, we're not upset that he got shot in the street.

Fucking billionaire-owned media.

DATE: February 21, 2025 at 08:30AM
SOURCE: DIGITALHEALTH.NET

TITLE: Senior leaders form an integrated health and care advisory board

URL: digitalhealth.net/2025/02/seni

The Access Group has established an Integrated Health and Care Advisory Board, with three senior NHS leaders the first to join the group.

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Digital Health · Senior leaders form an integrated health and care advisory boardThe Access Group has established an Integrated Health and Care Advisory Board, with three senior NHS leaders the first to join the group.

DATE: February 20, 2025 at 04:42PM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY MIND-BRAIN FEED

TITLE: Child ADHD risk linked to mother's use of acetaminophen

URL: sciencedaily.com/releases/2025

Fetal acetaminophen exposure increases the likelihood that a child will develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a new study.

URL: sciencedaily.com/releases/2025

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