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Study of Promising HIV Vaccine Begins

The first HIV vaccine efficacy study to launch anywhere in seven years is now testing whether an experimental vaccine regimen safely prevents HIV infection among South African adults. The study, called HVTN 702, involves a new version of the only HIV vaccine candidate ever shown to provide some protection against the virus. HVTN 702 aims […]

Trump Names Top Obamacare Critic to Lead HHS

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump chose a former Goldman Sachs banker and a billionaire investor on Tuesday to steer economic policy in his administration and a fierce Obamacare critic to dismantle President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare program. Republican Trump is expected to name Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs partner and Hollywood financier, as his nominee […]

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Congresswoman Wants VA to Cover in Vitro

This week, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., teamed up with U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., and U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., in urging the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to cover veterans whose wounds prevent them from having children by expanding Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) coverage, including In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). The VA hasn’t […]

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Evansville Medical Campus Prepares for 2018

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Officials say the medical school campus being built in downtown Evansville by Indiana University and two other schools is on pace for completion in 2018. Indiana University vice president Tom Morrison says steel beams should soon be going up on the four-story building after several months of excavation, utility and foundation work. […]

Blood Pressure Program Helps Hundreds in Tribes

Hannah Prairie Chief jumped at the chance to learn more about high blood pressure because several family members struggle with it. She worried about her grandmother, aunts and uncles, and wanted to help them get healthy. “I couldn’t talk about it if I didn’t know about it,” said Prairie Chief, 26, of El Reno, Oklahoma. […]

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Dental Hygiene to Prevent Disease Among Wampanoag

Massachusetts’s summer resorts in Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard offer miles of sand and sea, and they are not among the areas of the country that one would think have a dental disparity problem. The Wampanoag Native Americans who are based on the Cape and Vineyard, however, experience a lack of preventive and low-cost restorative […]

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S.D. Governor Ditches Medicaid Plan After Talk with Pence

PIERRE, S.D. — Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard says he won’t pursue an expansion of Medicaid in 2017 after a discussion with Vice President-elect Mike Pence. The South Dakota governor said in a statement that his decision is based on a meeting November 14 in which he and Pence talked about the Trump administration’s plans for […]

Montana Vote Expands Medical Marijuana

HELENA, Mont.— Montana voters approved an expansion of medical marijuana, one of four citizen initiatives on the ballot, which is the most in any state election since 2010. The other ballot measures asked voters to decide whether to ban trapping on public lands, fund brain research and insert a crime victims’ rights law into the […]

OSU Health Systems Celebrates New Location

The Oklahoma State University Center for Health Systems Innovation celebrated the grand opening of its new location on Friday. The center, a joint venture between the OSU Spears School of Business in Stillwater and the OSU Center for Health Sciences, is now housed in the Cyntergy Building at 810 S. Cincinnati Ave. “We are bringing […]

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Clinical Pharmacists Provide Veterans Primary Care

Veterans Affairs is now using clinical pharmacists to handle up to one-quarter of primary care appointments to combat wait times at some medical centers. Last year, VA implemented changes that allowed clinical pharmacists to handle primary care for many veterans at select facilities. The push is reportedly in an effort not to increase healthcare quality […]

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Food Addict Loses 500 Pounds

INDIALANTIC, Fla. — Fred Riley guesses that he weighed 750 pounds at his heaviest, unhealthiest point. But that’s just an estimate: The scale built into his hospital bed only measured objects up to 700 pounds. The morbidly obese Indiana resident with congestive heart failure spent a decade laying on a jumbo leather recliner, wearing a […]

Cancer Study Targets Hispanic Mothers

LAS CRUCES, N.M. —New Mexico State University’s College of Health and Social Services has launched a study to examine the impact of cancer on Hispanic families and to develop programs targeting Latinas. Researchers in the university’s Department of Public Health Sciences said this week they are looking for Hispanic mothers who have been diagnosed with […]

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