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First Responders Improving Interactions for People with Autism

First responders areare increasingly likely to respond to an incident involving a person with autism. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the fastest-growing developmental disability affecting about 1 in 68 children in the United States. On a global scale approximately 1 percent of the world population has ASD. How can first responders adapt their response when […]

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No Experience

You can’t make this stuff up: President Trump has announced he will nominate a medical doctor who has no discernible management experience to run the second-largest agency in the federal government. Can presidents be sued for malpractice? The man Trump has named to become secretary of veterans affairs, Dr. Ronny Jackson, happens to be the […]

Health Care for Reservation Inmates Raises Concern

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At a tribal jail in Washington state, an inmate with a broken leg banged on his cell door, screaming for pain medication, only to be denied. Hundreds of miles away, a diabetic man jailed on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming needed insulin, yet government records say authorities were unable to […]

Reservations Health Care

Sewage Leaks Plague Elite Washington Hospital

“A black, grainy foul-smelling substance” coated the floor of an operating room at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center, which also suffered from at least one “active leak” of sewage, according to a review by the District of Columbia health department last August. That health department report was cited in a lawsuit filed against the hospital by the […]

Hospital Sewage Leak

Soda Industry Fighting Back on Local Taxes

Watch out public health advocates – as soda tax campaigns are bubbling up in cities across the nation to combat obesity, diabetes and other serious health conditions – the beverage industry is working to choke off this expression of local democracy. A state bill banning localities from taxing food and beverages came out of nowhere in Michigan […]

States Need More Rules to Protect Insurance Market

Without more rules in place, state regulators won’t be able to fully protect the individual health insurance market from adverse selection when the individual mandate penalty ends in 2019 and if the Trump administration expands association health plans (AHPs) and short-term catastrophic plans, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. States can “ensure a level playing […]

Insurance Market

Report: Minority Women Undertreated for Perinatal Depression

In a new position paper, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University urge federal policymakers to appropriate funds toward diagnosis and treatment of perinatal depression in minority women — a group they say has been lacking in such care. Such a move would include increasing the number of medical providers who are trained […]

Perinatal Depression

Sanders: ‘We Know Nothing About VA Pick’

Sen. Bernie Sanders wouldn’t commit to supporting President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, on Sunday. In an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” the Vermont independent noted that Jackson, Trump’s personal physician, is a virtual unknown on veterans issues. He also expressed concerns the Trump administration […]

Researchers Double Effort to Enroll Women in Breast-Disease Study

Leaders of a landmark study aimed at heightening the focus on family medical history and genetic drivers that put some women at higher risks than others for developing breast disease are ramping up efforts to add Black females to their hoped-for pool of 100,000 participants. So far, Black women, who tend to be diagnosed later […]

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Speak Up!

Kudos to tennis superstar extraordinaire Serena Williams for insisting on being heard relative to her recent medical needs. Though she has reached celebrity status and money is no object, she was forced to insist that her medical team listen to her and act accordingly. In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was quoted as stating, “Of all the […]

Canadian Experts Say Ibuprofen Could Stall Alzheimer’s

A Vancouver-based research team led by Canada’s most cited neuroscientist, Dr. Patrick McGeer, has successfully carried out studies suggesting that, if started early enough, a daily regimen of the non-prescription NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug) ibuprofen can prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. This means that by taking an over-the-counter medication, people can ward off a […]

Institute Supports Conscience Rules in Healthcare

First Liberty Institute attorneys today submitted public comments on behalf of several religious ministries in support of new United States Health and Human Services (“HHS”) guidelines that ensure the protection of conscience rights for health care professionals. “Without conscience protections, health care professionals across America risk discrimination for refusing to perform, facilitate, or refer for procedures that […]

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