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Surgeon General advocates for social connection at ASU
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy addressed Arizona State University students recently at Memorial Union on the Tempe campus as part of his “We Are Made to Connect” tour. In conversation with Emma Broyles, ASU student and Miss America 2022, Murthy advised the audience to connect meaningfully with those around them to benefit their mental and physical health.
Proposal would help families of children with disabilities by paying parents to be caregivers
In 2020, as a result of the Covid pandemic, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) requested and was granted emergency flexibility to use funds to pay parents for providing specialized care to their children under 18. Though the flexibility was previously extended, it is currently set to expire in March 2024. A proposal submitted by AHCCCS to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid [...]
Smoke from the Salt River landfill fire could cause health problems
A fire that broke out at a landfill at about 4 p.m. Saturday on the Salt River Indian Reservation, near North Beeline Highway east of Scottsdale, had been reduced to a smolder by Tuesday afternoon.
‘Like a frying pan’: Extreme heat overwhelms Phoenix’s unhoused community
Those practicing street medicine for the unhoused population in Phoenix see the effects of heat on their patients. As of Sept. 12, the number of confirmed heat-associated deaths in Maricopa County this year had risen to 202, more than the 175 confirmed heat-associated deaths for all of 2022.
Activists: doctors’ biased behavior toward autistic adults taints treatment
Doctors often show bias toward autistic adults, demonstrating skepticism about their autistic identity, using ableist language or failing to recognize autistic people may react differently to sensory stimuli like pain, activists say.
