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Catholic Hospitals Offer Preview of Post-Roe v. Wade Scenarios

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has tightened restrictions on reproductive health care for the one in six hospital beds nationwide that operate under its directives. The directives ban abortion, sterilization, and most forms of contraception in Catholic facilities. Hospitals seeking to keep their doors open have found workarounds: allowing contraceptive prescriptions under the guise […]

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Veteran Suicides

Three years ago, I wrote a somewhat confrontational article about why 22 was not the correct number of how many veterans commit suicide each day in the United States. I argued that if hiring managers and recruiters focused on the number 22 without context, they could severely impair veterans’ ability to find meaningful employment. After all, according […]

Veteran Suicides

Aid in Summer Improved Children’s Nutrition, Food Access

Offering families financial assistance to purchase food in the summer improved school-aged children’s food security by 20 percent and boosted the quality of their diets, according to an April 2018 study published in Pediatrics. Eight percent of households with children in the U.S. were “food insecure” in 2016, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report. For these […]

SNAP Food Assistance

Study: Sleep Problems Raise Heart Risks for Women

We know that not getting enough sleep is already linked to a slew of health concerns, both physical and mental, with cardiovascular health high on the list. Now a new study shows that even mild sleep issues, like difficulty falling and staying asleep, elevates risk of cardiovascular disease in women. The study examined 323 healthy women who wore […]

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Scientist Map Socioeconomic Data

The Neighborhood Atlas(link is external), a new tool to help researchers visualize socioeconomic data at the community level is now available. This online platform allows for easily ranking and mapping neighborhoods according to socioeconomic disadvantage. Seeing a neighborhood’s socioeconomic measures, such as income, education, employment and housing quality, may provide clues to the effects of those […]

Forecast for Obamacare: More Insurers, Higher Prices

Health insurers are planning to expand in Obamacare amid rising profits, but the trend is coming at the expense of higher premiums for certain customers. Premiums are expected to rise by an average of 15 percent for customers whose incomes aren’t low enough to qualify them for subsidies, according to early estimates from Avalere Health. […]

EMTs Fired Over Facebook Comments about Native Americans

YAKIMA, Wash. — A private ambulance company says two Washington state employees accused of making derogatory comments about Native Americans on Facebook are no longer working there. A spokeswoman with American Medical Response, Tawnya Silloway, said in an email Thursday night that two are out. The employees were placed on unpaid leave Tuesday as AMR […]

Meharry Lays Off 55

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — One of the largest and oldest historically-black medical colleges in the nation has laid off 55 employees in Tennessee. The Tennesseean reports Meharry Medical College confirmed Thursday that it let go about 6.5 percent of its workforce this week. Meharry President James Hildreth announced the layoffs in a letter Wednesday and said […]

Black Woman Becomes President of Medical Association

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — Dr. Patrice Harris is a Bluefield native, a West Virginia University graduate, and she is now the first African-American woman elected as president of the American Medical Association. Harris will become the 174th president of the AMA in June 2019, and is now serving as president-elect. She was elected to the post […]

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Higher HIV Rates in Sub-Saharan Women Linked to British Colonialism

The likelihood that a woman in sub-Saharan Africa has HIV today is linked to whether her country was once colonized by Britain or a continental European country, according to a June 2018 studypublished in American Economic Review. Siwan Anderson, a professor at the Vancouver School of Economics, hypothesized that “weaker marital property rights” in common law countries […]

Breastfeeding Zealots

Breastfeeding zealots really need to back off — especially when they work in the newborn ward of a hospital. After the birth of my daughter last summer, I spent my first several days in the hospital struggling to breastfeed. It really did not go well. And the entire experience would have been so much better […]

Sale of Off-Exchange Medical Plans Drop by Half

The number of health insurance plans sold outside of Obamacare’s exchanges fell by half in 2018, according to a study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Plans sold outside the exchanges fell from 8,700 in 2017 to about 4,000 in 2018. Eight states had no plans that were sold outside the exchanges in 2018, compared with five […]

Health Insurance

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