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Repeal Failed, Now What?

Obamacare repeal is dead, again. But the months of Republican attacks on the health law will still have consequences for some consumers. For now, people who get their insurance through Medicaid can rest easy. While some states have applied to make minor changes to their programs, the demise of the Graham-Cassidy legislation on Tuesday means […]

2 Ohio Colleges Apply for Medical Marijuana Testing

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two colleges have applied to handle testing for Ohio’s nascent medical marijuana program. A spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Commerce tells The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Central State University in southwest Ohio and Hocking College in southeast Ohio both sent in applications by last Friday’s deadline. State law mandates only colleges […]

Psychotherapists’ Letter: Troubling Times

Increasingly, the weight of the current political environment burdens the hearts and minds of Americans and causes anxiety, preoccupation, deepening depression, feelings of helplessness and despair, disgust and horror. Not infrequently, it even rekindles the embers of prior trauma for women and members of marginalized groups whose sense of hard-won safety has been shaken to […]

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Teen Birth Rates Highest in Poor Areas

It’s about a 15-minute drive from McLane High to Buchanan High, but the difference in teen birth rates within the schools’ respective ZIP codes is staggering – and alarming. Buchanan High, a Clovis Unified school, is in Fresno County’s 93619 ZIP code, where less than 1 percent of teenage girls gave birth between 2011-2014, according […]

Center Offers New Model for Treating Sickle Cell

Gideon Ogungbemi says the pain caused by sickle cell disease is indescribable. “I can’t put it into words but I know it’s something terrible that I would never want any of my friends to experience,” says Ogungbemi, 28. The pain often drove Ogungbemi to the emergency room, where he says doctors gave him morphine or […]

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Study: Pollution May Cause Kidney Disease

Add kidney disease to the list of health problems associated with air pollution. A team of scientists from Washington University in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System found an association between tiny particulate matter and kidney disease in two different data sets. Read More

Is Healthcare a Right?

In the world unable to come to agreement on an answer. Earlier this year, I was visiting Athens, Ohio, the town in the Appalachian foothills where I grew up. The battle over whether to repeal, replace, or repair the Affordable Care Act raged then, as it continues to rage now. So I began asking people […]

1 Million People Wanted for Ground-Breaking Study

WASHINGTON — U.S. researchers are getting ready to recruit more than 1 million people for an unprecedented study to learn how our genes, environments and lifestyles interact. Today, health care is based on averages, what worked best in short studies of a few hundred or thousand patients. The massive “All of Us” project instead will […]

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Poll: Majority Supports Single-Payer Care

A slim majority of Americans support a single-payer health-care system that is funded and administrated by the government and eliminates private insurers, according to a new poll. The latest Harvard-Harris Poll survey found 52 percent favor a single-payer system against 48 who oppose it. A strong majority of Democrats — 69 percent — back the […]

Obamacare Repeal “Dead as a Door Nail;” Senate Won’t Vote

WASHINGTON — Facing assured defeat, Republican leaders decided Tuesday not even to hold a vote on the GOP’s latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law, surrendering on their last-gasp effort to deliver on the party’s banner campaign promise. “The bill is dead as a door nail,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., leaving a […]

Unpacking the Sanders Bill

On September 13, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)—with 16 Democratic cosponsors—released the Medicare-For-All Act of 2017, intended to transition the American health care system to a single-payer system. In addition to the bill text, Senator Sanders released an executive summary, title summary, and white paper on financing options. Read More

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Summit Aims to Boost Black Infant Survival Odds

ST. PAUL — Even after 15 years, Ruth Richardson still remembers a prenatal visit to the doctor that left her outraged. It was her second pregnancy, and a white physician made a startling assumption about her. “He looked at my arm and asked me, ‘How long have you been an IV drug user?’” she recalled. […]

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