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Jeremy Renner Shares Photo of His ‘Process’ as He Recovers from Snowplow Accident: ‘This Pain, Agony’

Jeremy Renner makes his first television appearance since his Jan. 1 snowplow accident in Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interviewairing Thursday

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Jeremy Renner’s recovery from his Jan. 1 snowplow accident is all about progress.

On Wednesday, the Avengers: Endgame star — whose upcoming interview with Diane Sawyer is set to air Thursday — re-shared a photo on his Instagram Story showing him working with chiropractic sports physician Christopher Vincent as a camera crew looks on.

“This pain, agony, soreness … Ain’t nothing but PROGRESS,” Renner, 52, wrote in a caption over the photo.

Vincent, whose Instagram profile

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Improving Patient Care Through Technology Orchestration

As healthcare shifts towards a more patient-centric approach, health providers across the world are looking for innovative ways to enhance the patient care journey. The infusion of software solutions into the healthcare industry has helped providers improve the overall patient experience. One of these solutions is Care Orchestration, a method that uses Information Technology (IT) to improve the care journey. Care Orchestration can be defined as the coordination of many complex computer systems, servers and applications in a way that enhances the care journey. In a clinical setting, Orchestration allows for a simplification of patient workflows and an overall improvement

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How Our Body Reacts To A Long-Haul Flight


In a few years, direct flights lasting 20 hours will possibly be a reality. On such occasions, we wonder how we could keep ourselves as healthy and fit as possible on a very long air journey.

The announcement by various airlines that from 2025 they will be able to offer direct flights from Australia to the US and Europe has opened a new debate about how much the human body can withstand in the air – mentally and physically.

In particular, the non-stop flights will last 20 hours and will concern the trips from Sydney to New York and London.

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Sylvia Jones defends covering fewer eye exams for Ontario seniors




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Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones is defending a move to reduce the frequency of eye exams for healthy seniors, saying Monday that changes to funding for optometry services involve “fine tuning” the coverage.

Jones announced Friday that the government had reached a funding agreement with optometrists that increased some payments to them – though she has not detailed those increases – but it also cuts some coverage for patients.

As of Sept. 1,

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Probiotic supplements claim to boost gut health, but may do the opposite

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Probiotic supplements have grown into a multibillion-dollar industry, spurred by claims that the product will populate your gut with bacteria that can boost your health in numerous ways.

But be aware of the hype: In healthy people, probiotic supplements offer little benefit, and they can potentially do more harm than good.

Studies show that taking probiotic supplements — for overall health or to counter the effects of antibiotics — can alter the composition of your microbiome and reduce the levels of microbial diversity in your gut, which is linked to a number of health problems.

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Millions will lose health insurance starting Saturday. But they might not know it.

Millions of people will begin to lose their health insurance on Saturday, as five states began the unwinding of a pandemic-era protection that kept people from being removed from the Medicaid rosters.

During the public health emergency, states were required to keep people on Medicaid without the often yearly reapplication process normally in place. But now that the public health emergency is winding down, so are the Medicaid rolls.

“We’re now in a position within just a couple of days where states can begin to disenroll people — to redo their rosters for Medicaid — and this continuous coverage requirement

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Coffee affects physical activity and sleep, the study finds

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Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages worldwide, but the pendulum has swung back and forth about its benefits and drawbacks.

New findings from a small study published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine, suggest both upsides and downsides: Drinking at least a cup of coffee per day might make you move more but sleep less — and it might put you at a higher risk for

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How Carrie Underwood Is Teaching Her Kids to Eat Healthy

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Like many other people, Carrie Underwood spent the majority of COVID quarantine in her garden. She started the plot in 2019, but used the extra time at home to get in deep — and since then, it’s turned out to be an unexpectedly great parenting tool, namely to teach her kids about healthy eating.

“We have lots of discussions on why we should or shouldn’t eat certain things or drink certain things with our kids,” Underwood tells POPSUGAR.

“[T]hey feel more invested and excited about eating things that are good for them if they have a role to play.”

But