Soccer star Lauren Holiday opens up about brain tumor health scare while pregnant

Retired U.S. women's soccer player Lauren Holiday took to social media over the weekend to open up about her life as a new mother and the obstacles she faced upon learning she had a benign brain tumor while six months pregnant.

Holiday, 29, posted a photo of daughter Jrue on Saturday to her Instagram page and wrote, "I have never quite known suffering like I experienced the last 6 months. I can remember countless nights repeating 'there may be pain in the night but joy comes in the morning.' I remember half believing it and half still in disbelief that this was my life."

The two-time Olympic gold medalist had the tumor, a type called meningioma, successfully removed in October, just one month after she gave birth to her daughter, Jrue Tyler Holiday.

Holiday says that in addition to the support of her husband, NBA player Jrue Holiday, and other family, her strength comes from her faith in God.

"I memorized scripture and some days my faith felt unshakable and others I was scared to death," she wrote beneath the photo of her daughter. "Every time I see this smile, I'm reminded that joy does come in the morning. Maybe not the next day, maybe not even the next month but it comes. I can't imagine what heaven will be like if this is the joy I get to experience on earth. Psalm 30:5"

The Holidays, college sweethearts, married in 2013. After Lauren Holiday's diagnosis, her husband, a guard for the New Orleans Pelicans, took a leave of absence from the team to focus on his family.

He missed the preseason and 12 regular season games before returning to the court in late November.

“I’m blessed, man,” he said at a news conference at the time. “Blessed to have my family back, blessed that we’re OK. So blessed for the support from especially the team. I can’t even explain how much they were there for me and my family through everything."

Jrue Holiday gave another update in January, saying, "My wife is a lot better so I'm doing a lot better."

"I guess it's been going well and it hasn't been affecting me, I don't think," he said, according to ESPN. "My wife is doing really well and she's gradually getting better, and that's all I can ask for. She's alive, and I'm blessed for that. My daughter is OK. So, I'm happy."

Lauren Holiday has used social media to post photos of the couple's daughter, including one eight weeks ago, captioned, "You're my hallelujah."

"There's ultimate joy for Lauren Holiday on social media," said USA Today columnist and ABC News consultant Christine Brennan. "I mean, she's using it to tell what appears to be a very happy ending."

Food stamps and sweets: Should they be kept apart?

The food-stamp program is credited with helping 44 million people in America afford groceries, providing what supporters say is a needed benefit for some of the country’s most vulnerable.

Yet critics of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) say the anti-hunger program is easily abused, and the latest questions about the program are stirring a hornet’s nest of debate. One hot-button issue: Should food-stamp recipients be banned from buying soda and candy?

House lawmakers on Thursday heard experts discuss the issue in what appeared to be a fact-finding mission, as the House Agriculture Committee said it wanted to hear the “pros and cons.”

The debate aligns two sides that may not appear to have much in common: critics on the right of government overspending and public health advocates. Debate about how food-stamp benefits are spent was sparked by a November report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which found that households receiving SNAP benefits used 20 cents of every dollar to buy soda, candy, desserts and other unhealthy foods. 

Section: Health change has helped numerous Ohioans

On account of Medicaid extension, numerous Ohio families got to be distinctly more beneficial and happier fiscally in the course of recent years. On the off chance that Congress nullifies the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and rebuilds Medicaid, this advance could unexpectedly stop. In Ohio, many employments pay ineffectively. For specialists who don't get medical coverage through their employment and are paid too little to pay for costly scope, Medicaid development and appropriations under the ACA are the best way to get watch over themselves and their families.

The ACA helped very nearly a million Ohioans get basic social insurance. Based on America's current arrangement of open and private protection, it gives appropriations to help center pay families purchase private protection. It additionally extended Medicaid, an open program. Since the general market for wellbeing scope was expanded, numerous unsafe practices in medical coverage that influenced everybody were dispensed with.

For instance, before the ACA, more than 4 million Ohioans had a lifetime confine on their protection arrangement, implying that the guarantor topped advantages through the span of the individual's life. The ACA disallows both lifetime and yearly tops.

In 2009, more than 5 million Ohioans had a previous condition that, before the ACA, would have implied safety net providers in the individual market could deny them an arrangement or quote them over the top premium rates. The ACA disallowed these practices.

Under the ACA, wellbeing arranges must cover preventive administrations — including influenza shots, growth screenings and contraception — at no additional cost to shoppers, profiting more than 5 million Ohioans.

Medicaid covers a fourth of all Ohioans. The ACA's Medicaid extension stretched out scope to individuals procuring up to 138 percent of the government neediness level, a yearly pay of about $16,400 for an individual and $27,800 for a group of three. A full-time, year-round specialist with a lowest pay permitted by law work falls under this edge. A solitary parent with two kids would be at this pay level with a $13.40 time-based compensation. These are individuals utilized in some of Ohio's biggest word related gatherings, similar to sustenance benefit, development, retail or home social insurance. Bosses in these areas once in a while offer wellbeing scope.

Around 700,000 individuals enlisted in Ohio's Medicaid development. Senator Kasich's program assessment discovered more than 40 percent were working, and very nearly seventy five percent of the rest were searching for work. Around 72 percent were white, the greater part were male, and a lion's share had a secondary school degree or less. Following a year with medicinal services, enrollees felt better ready to work or search for work, and their enthusiastic, physical and budgetary prosperity progressed.

In Central Ohio, this was especially imperative. In some focal Ohio regions, Medicaid covers more than 33% of the aggregate populace. Medicaid extension helped more than 10 percent of individuals of working age.

Annulment of the ACA without a substitution would hurt a great many low-pay grown-ups in each district. Changes to the Medicaid program could hurt some all the more, including individuals who are youthful, old, visually impaired or debilitated. Some in Congress need to change the structure of Medicaid from a privilege, which you get if your pay makes you qualified, to an elected piece concede, which is a set measure of cash the government provides for the express every year for the program. Under the present Medicaid program, help is there when need rises. Square allows don't really rise when there's a national subsidence or a neighborhood plant conclusion. That forgets individuals, exactly when need is most astounding.

Cancelation of the ACA could mean an expected $4 billion less in government stores streaming to Ohio's state spending plan, its social insurance suppliers and the numerous families profiting from extended scope. An expected 50,000 occupations would be lost as laid-off medicinal services laborers abridge spending at markets and film theaters, making a descending financial winding. Piece giving of Medicaid assets to the state could bring about considerably more prominent misfortune after some time.

Congress' moving way to deal with Medicaid subsidizing and the ACA places incredible vulnerability on families, managers and groups. There ought to be no real changes to medicinal services without an extensive arrangement Ohioans obviously see: so we can plainly contrast what we had and what we are getting.

Philips extends individual wellbeing programs with Jovia Coach expecting to decrease the danger of Type 2 diabetes

Changing one's way of life is greatly testing, however can bigly affect individuals' present and future wellbeing. Jovia Coach intends to help clients find a way to better their wellbeing and goes with them wherever they go. By means of the portable application, clients will get aptitude building content and can finish difficulties and undertakings, track dinners and physical action, and communicate with an individual way of life mentor and a companion amass.

Sort 2 diabetes represents no less than 90 percent1 of all diabetes cases and is portrayed by insulin resistance and relative insulin insufficiency. Sort 2 diabetes may stay undiscovered for a long time and the conclusion is regularly made when a confusion shows up. It is assessed that 12 percent of the worldwide wellbeing use is spent on diabetes.2

"Many instances of sort 2 diabetes can be forestalled by tending to behavioral hazard variables, for example, unfortunate eating, being over-weight and absence of work out," said Jan Kimpen, Chief Medical Officer, Philips.

Jovia Coach plans to bolster clients to create and keep up adhering to a good diet designs and physical movement propensities, and cultivate the aptitudes they have to explore their social condition and beat obstructions. Jovia Coach is a piece of Philips' own wellbeing programs which speaks to another time in associated mind by peopling make little, important changes, which managed after some time, can help individuals be more advantageous. The program will be accessible in the U.S. in English and Spanish amid the second quarter and offered through worker advantage projects and medical coverage.

Philips will feature the broadness of its own and populace wellbeing offerings in stall #2105 at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2017 Annual Meeting and Exhibition. For more data on Philips' nearness at (HIMSS),

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