Lorraine Anna Plamann – Merrill Foto News

[ad_1] Lorraine Anna Plamann, 97, was called to her heavenly home on October 3, 2021, under the care of Compassus Hospice at Pine Crest Nursing Home, Merrill. Lorraine was born on February 24, 1924 in the town of Schley, County Lincoln, daughter of late August and Metha (Lowenhagen) Loesel. On September 11, 1943, Lorraine married … Read more

Doctors become frustrated with COVID-19 denial and misinformation

[ad_1] The COVID-19 patient’s health was deteriorating rapidly in a Michigan hospital, but he had no doctor’s diagnosis. Despite dangerously low oxygen levels, the unvaccinated man didn’t think he was so sick and was so angry at a hospital policy forbidding his wife from being at his bedside that he threatened to leave the hospital. … Read more

Depression increased in first year of pandemic, BU researchers say

[ad_1] A to study of the Boston University School of Public Health found that there were increasing rates of depression among American adults during the first year of the pandemic, with a higher prevalence among those on low incomes and multiple factors of stress related to COVID-19. Researchers surveyed more than 1,100 adults last spring … Read more

Instagram promoted pages glorifying eating disorders on teenage accounts

[ad_1] Instagram admitted to CNN over the weekend that those accounts had broken its rules against promoting extreme diets and should not have been allowed on the platform. The Extreme Diet accounts were promoted to an Instagram account created by the staff of Senator Richard Blumenthal. The Connecticut Senator team registered an account as a … Read more

How healthcare workers went from ‘heroes to villains’

[ad_1] The patient of Dr Sheryl Recinos refused to accept her diagnosis of Covid-19. Her cough was due to Recinos’ scent, the patient insisted, certain that her positive Covid-19 test could not be correct. Recinos, a family medicine hospitalist in California, did not wear perfume. The test result, Recinos told his patient, was correct. Interaction, … Read more

Alarming new report shows just how toxic Instagram is to body image

[ad_1] A new report released last week revealed just how much content promoting eating disorders to women and teens lives on on Instagram. And unsurprisingly: there are far too many. The data, from advocacy group SumOfUs, comes on the heels of an explosive Wall Street Journal series alleging the company is fully aware of the … Read more