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Disparities
Restricting Calories May Offer Benefits for Elderly
One of the first studies to explore the effects of calorie restriction on humans showed that cutting caloric intake by 15 percent for two years slowed aging and metabolism and protected against age-related disease. The study, which appears March 22 in the journal Cell Metabolism, found that calorie restriction decreased systemic oxidative stress, which has been […]
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AP: Promise for Vets’ Private Care Deadlocked
President Donald Trump is holding out the promise of better health care for veterans through an imminent expansion of private-sector services outside the Department of Veterans Affairs system. The problem: His campaign priority remains deadlocked in Congress as his VA secretary struggles with rebellion inside the agency. During the presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly pledged to […]
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HHS Website Drops Lesbian, Bisexual Resources
The Department of Health and Human Services quietly removed lesbian and bisexual content from its women’s health website last fall, according to a new report from the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit government watchdog group. The findings, released on Wednesday, noted that the HHS-operated Office of Women’s Health (OWH) “removed a webpage with extensive information about lesbian and bisexual health, […]
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Democrats See Chance to Improve Obamacare
President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010 ― eight years ago Friday. But this anniversary feels different from the ones that came before it. In the past, Democrats have been preoccupied with implementing the law and fending off efforts to destroy it. That was especially true last year, when […]
Blogs/Opinion
Religious Refusals
During the Obama administration, I was the director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. There, I was privileged to spearhead the issuance of regulations implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, the groundbreaking civil rights provision that — among other things — was […]
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Wendy Williams Talks About Graves’ Disease
Over the last 10 years, Wendy Williams’ popular daytime show has been known for discussing some of the entertainment industry’s hottest topics. But after she fainted live on the air during a show last October, her health became the most popular topic of them all. In a new interview with Good Morning America, Williams’opened up about her battle […]
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Lawyer: Nearly 100 Sex-Abuse Suits Filed Over Ex-V.A. Worker
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — The number of lawsuits accusing a former physician assistant at a Veteran’s Administration hospital in Kansas of sexual abuse is approaching 100. The Wichita Eagle reports that Kansas City attorneys Dan Curry and Sarah Brown filed three more lawsuits last week on behalf of former patients of Mark Wisner. He was sentenced […]
Disparities
Report: Disparities Closing Because Whites Are Sicker
Although racial disparities in cardiovascular health still exist, the divide between blacks and whites has narrowed because of worsening health among whites, not improvements among blacks, according to research published in Annals of Internal Medicine. “Trends in cardiovascular disparities are poorly understood, even as diversity increases in the United States,” Arleen F. Brown, MD, PhD, from the University […]
Disparities
Interior Secretary Tells Tribal Leaders He Will Fight Opioids
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has told tribal leaders in the Phoenix area that federal law enforcement will work with them to fight distribution of opioid drugs in Indian country. Zinke said law enforcement officers from the Bureau of Land Management and the Drug Enforcement Administration can help tribal police fight the […]
Policies
DOJ Weighs ‘Major Litigation’ Against Opioid Makers
President Trump spoke Monday of using federal prosecutors to pursue “major litigation” against drug manufacturers alleged to have played a role in creating a nationwide epidemic of opioid abuse. Speaking in New Hampshire at the White House’s rollout of a national opioids strategy, the president expanded upon a Department of Justice release last month in […]
Policies
Trump Appointees Targeted Teen Pregnancy Program
The Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of a federal program to prevent teen pregnancy last year was directed by political appointees over the objections of career experts in the Department of Health and Human Services, which administers the program, according to internal notes and emails obtained by NBC News. The trove shows three appointees with strict pro-abstinence beliefs — including […]
Policies
Leaders Haggle Over Abortion, Healthcare in Spending Bill
Congressional negotiators laboring to write a trillion-dollar plan to fund the federal government are caught up in last-minute partisan disputes over abortion rights, health care costs and the fate of a Northeastern railway tunnel that President Donald Trump has sought to derail. House and Senate leaders must agree on a package before Friday’s deadline to […]
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