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Improve Obamacare

The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, has endured attack after attack, yet it has not collapsed. Instead, it proves repeatedly that it fills a substantial gap in the U.S. health-care system. This should finally cause some reflection among those who have been trying to kill it. President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services […]

Lower Blood Pressure Guidelines Carry Risks, Say Experts

A new report in JAMA Internal Medicine by University of Sydney and Bond University scholars weighs the risks and benefits of a recent change to blood pressure guidelines in the US. The recent recommendations from American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association are as follows: – lowering the threshold for diagnosing hypertension in adults from […]

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Transgender Youth Diagnosed More Often as Mentally Ill

We know that transgender and gender non-conforming people are at an increased risk of many things, including discrimination and violence. And the same is true for transgender and gender non-conforming young people. Past research has shown that this bias can lead to higher rates of mental illness among transgender students compared to their cisgender peers. A new Kaiser Permanente study takes […]

Transgender Mental Illness

As Opioid Deaths Spike, Minority Faith Leaders Issue Call to Action

The Rev. L.C. Ray admittedly knew little of the region’s opioid crisis before his WNC Baptist Fellowship Church congregation asked him last year how they could raise awareness about of an epidemic killing an average of four people a day in North Carolina. The Rev. L.C. Ray admittedly knew little of the region’s opioid crisis before his WNC Baptist Fellowship Church congregation asked him […]

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Some Regions Lag in Preparedness

An annual assessment of the nation’s day-to-day readiness for managing health emergencies improved significantly over the past five years, though deep regional differences remain. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released the 2018 National Health Security Preparedness Index, which found the United States scored a 7.1 on a 10-point scale for preparedness—nearly a 3 percent […]

Dr. Keith C. Ferdinand: Eliminating Cardiac Disparities

Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, professor of medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine, Tulane Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans. He focuses largely on cardiac risk factor evaluation and control, especially hypertension and hyperlipidemia, including communities of racial and ethnic minorities. I move medicine by a combination of direct patient care and teaching the […]

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Med Center’s Approach Improves Blood Pressure Results for Blacks, Hispanics

Serving a population made up largely of African-American and Hispanic patients, a Miami primary care and multispecialty group saw the same racial and ethnic health disparities in hypertension that are rampant in the American population at large. But the team at Doctor’s Medical Center (DMC) was able to secure a 16 percent improvement in its […]

Blood Pressure Improvements

Judge Rules Against HHS on Ending Teen Pregnancy Program

A federal judge in D.C. ruled Thursday that the Trump administration’s cut to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program were unlawful. Last summer, the administration notified 81 organizations that their five-year grants through the program would end in 2018, rather than in 2020, prompting multiple lawsuits. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled in one of those cases […]

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Stress and Overtraining Can Derail Your Workouts

Overtraining is rooted in stress and can sabotage your workouts. To avoid overtraining and get the most out of your workout, you must balance the stress of working out with the other stress in your life.

Pro-Life Violence

How many terrorist attacks have taken place on American soil over the last 40 years? The real answer is almost certainly larger and far sadder than you think. According to the National Abortion Federation, community health centers and abortion providers have witnessed the following atrocities since 1977: 655 anthrax threats 383 general death threats 373 property […]

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Doctors Call for Action on Social Determinants

The American College of Physicians (ACP) released a set of 9 recommendations today meant to address social determinants of health (SDOH) in order to improve patient care and health outcomes that are negatively impacted by the conditions in the United States under which patients live, grow, and work.1 However, in an accompanying editorial, 2 physicians wrote […]

Pow-Wow Connects Community to Health Providers

Speaking over the sound of powwow drums, UW-Madison pharmacy student Kym Ludwig compared the sugar contents in different energy drinks and helped administer free diabetes risk tests to Wunk Sheek Spring Powwow guests at an informational booth tucked between indigenous food vendors and stalls selling beaded jewelry. Ludwig, who is also a member of the Native […]

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