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Disparities
Summer Program Inspires Youth to Serve in Healthcare
Local underrepresented minority high school students were inspired to achieve more and serve others after participating in an immersive two-week learning experience through Loma Linda University Health’s Summer Gateway program. Summer Gateway aims to create positive attitudes toward healthcare professions among high school students through presentations, activities and service opportunities. Read More
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Native American Veterans Gather at Clinic to Honor Service
Michael Sebastian grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation, and after serving for more than 22 years in the U.S. military – including three tours of duty in Iraq – he was pulled back, he said, by a need to help his community. “I thought I could repay those debts that I owed,” he said. […]
Policies
Palestinians: U.S. Cuts Will Have Dire Effect on Healthcare
The director of an East Jerusalem hospital said Sunday that a US decision to cut funding to hospitals serving the Palestinians will have a “severe effect.” Bassem Abu Libdeh, of the Makassed hospital, said that the US currently covers 40 percent of costs in six East Jerusalem hospitals that provide care for Palestinians from the […]
Policies
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s Medicare Isn’t Stronger
WASHINGTON — Eager to dismiss his critics, President Donald Trump is fabricating the circumstances regarding jobs, the economy and the social safety net. He insists that Social Security and Medicare are becoming stronger under his watch when the most recent government report shows the financial condition of both programs worsening. On the economy, his claims […]
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Doctors Explore Lifting Barriers for Living Organ Donors
WASHINGTON — Surgeons turned down Terra Goudge for the liver transplant that was her only shot at surviving a rare cancer. Her tumor was too advanced, they said — even though Goudge had a friend ready to donate, no matter those odds. “I have a living donor. I’m not taking away from anyone. I’m trying […]
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Yale Psychiatrist: Claims about Trump’s Mental Health No Surprise
A Yale psychiatrist believes the anonymous op-ed by a “senior administration official” published by The New York Times exposes President Donald Trump’s “psychological symptoms” relating to the “mental challenges” that make him a “dangerous” man. Dr. Bandy Lee, assistant clinical professor in law and psychiatry and violence expert at the Yale School of Medicine, published […]
Students
Family Creates Endowed Scholarship for Claflin Biology Majors
Claflin University has established the Spencer and Rev. Minnie Anderson Endowed Scholarship Fund following the couple’s $20,000 gift to the university honoring the memory of their two sons, Michael Cutler and the Rev. Dr. Otis Cutler, Jr. Michael and Otis died 28 days apart – Michael from a pulmonary embolism at the age of 48, […]
Disparities
Lawmakers Tour Arapaho-Run Clinic
Legislators learned about innovations at the Northern Arapaho Tribe’s health clinic when they gathered in Fort Washakie for a tribal relations committee meeting this week. The tribe took over its health clinic from the federal government back in 2016 in hopes of addressing health disparities they struggle with among their members. Read More
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17 Health Care Systems Launch Project for Underserved
Seventeen health systems, encompassing 280 hospitals—5 percent of the hospitals in the country—have come together to figure out financially sustainable solutions to the problem of how to improve health care for underserved people and their families. Read More
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Maryland County Giving Out Condoms at Schools
When high school students in Montgomery County, Maryland, go back to school Tuesday after summer vacation, some of them will have one extra resource available to them: condoms. Record rates of sexually transmitted diseases around the country, as well as in the county, have alarmed local officials, who say distributing condoms in schools is one […]
Disparities
Summer Program Stirs Students to Action on Environment
The number of Dearborn students becoming involved in more activism and learning development committees is increasing each year and the Environmental Health Research-to-Action (EHRA) Academy under Healthy Dearborn has empowered Dearborn high school and college preparatory students to take action in the health concerns facing Dearborn’s Southend. Developed by two U of M-Dearborn faculty members, […]
Disparities
Yale Launches Minority Healthcare Fellowship
The Yale School of Management next year will launch the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Leadership, a program that aims to equip health care practitioners with the leadership and managerial skills required to address inequities in the U.S. health care system. Read More
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