
What We're Reading: Rural Counties Struggle With Premature Death Rates
What we're reading, March 16, 2016: there is a big divide between the rural and urban health; exercise is rarely prescribed for chronic conditions; and NFL executive acknowledges link between football and degenerative brain disease.
While premature deaths have been steadily going down across the entire country, rural areas are being left behind.
Primary care physicians prefer to prescribe pharmaceutical or surgical solutions for many chronic conditions when exercise could be a treatment.
An executive of the NFL has acknowledged the link between football and a degenerative brain disease. The executive, testifying on Capitol Hill, admitted that research has shown a number of retired NFL players were diagnosed chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is a reversal from the NFL’s lead physician saying something different just a month ago,
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