At the 26th Annual Conference November 2020, Rural Resilience: The Road to Recovery, the Rural Health Association of Tennessee Board of Director elections resulted in Ms. Alicia Calloway elected as one of two new Board Members. Calloway, along with Mr. Barry Cooper, are the newly elected members for 2021. With a heart for healthcare, but … [Read more...]
Alicia Calloway One Of Two New Additions To The Rural Health Association of Tennessee
How Mindfulness Can Help Healthcare Professionals
Healthcare providers often face significant work-related stress, and the rates of burnout among healthcare workers have been on the rise in recent years. Though much research corroborates the high prevalence of stress amongst this demographic, little headway has occurred with respect to developing and deploying effective measures to combat this … [Read more...]
New Data on Benefits of Cinnamon in Prediabetes
Those with chronic diseases like diabetes not only suffer from the diseases themselves - but as we have observed recently with COVID-19 - they are also more susceptible to serious illness from other conditions and diseases. Finding effective ways for physicians to prevent and manage these diseases therefore remains critical. A new study … [Read more...]
Data Show Hydroxychloroquine Reduces Fetal Heart Block Occurrence
Few drugs have received as much media attention in recent years as hydroxychloroquine. Though used clinically for years and for several different conditions, there has been heated debate amongst physicians and other healthcare providers about the safety and efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19. One major concern amongst skeptics has been the … [Read more...]
New Information on How Social Determinants of Health Impact Stroke Risk
Social determinants of health are regularly explored as a means for elucidating the complex contributions to disease and mortality. New research aimed at understanding how social determinants of health may help to predict stroke risk has revealed that social determinants of health may be particularly important in adults under the age of 75. The … [Read more...]