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Veterans’ Hospital Focuses on Proactive Care

COLUMBIA, Mo. — A veterans’ hospital in Missouri has recently started programs to include proactive care for patients. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that instead of only treating patients who complain of illness or injury, the Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital’s recently constructed Patient Education Center seeks to teach people how to improve their health in […]

Illinois Nursing School Gets $2 Million Grant

NORMAL, Ill. — The Illinois State University Mennonite College of Nursing is getting a $2 million federal grant to help make the nursing workforce more diverse. The school says in a news release the nursing school is getting $500,000 a year for four years from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The money […]

Poll: Most Americans Don’t like the AHCA

More Americans have an unfavorable view of the American Healthcare Act (AHCA) than a favorable one (55% vs. 31%, respectively), according to a new poll. Here are three key findings that MCOs should be aware of, according to a Kaiser Health Tracking Poll published May 31. Key finding #1: The survey, performed after House Republicans […]

Members of Trump’s HIV/AIDS Council Resign

President Donald Trump has a “lack of understanding and concern” for people living with HIV/AIDS, according to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), leading six members to resign. In an op-ed for Newsweek, former council member Scott A. Schoettes revealed that the Trump administration has no strategy in mind for fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic. […]

Study Examines Zika in Young Guatemalans

A large natural history study examining the neurologic, neurodevelopmental and other clinical outcomes of Zika virus infection in infants and young children has begun in rural Guatemala. It will focus on those infected with Zika virus after birth rather than those infected congenitally. The study is being conducted by the National Institute of Allergy and […]

Few Opioid-Addicted Youth Get Medication

CHICAGO — Only one in four teens and young adults with opioid addiction receive recommended treatment medication even with good health insurance, according to a study that suggests doctors are not keeping up with the needs of youth caught up in the worst addiction crisis in U.S. history. “Young people may be dying because they […]

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Rutgers Dean Seeks to Remove Health Disparities

The gay men’s health crisis is sill with us. HIV/AIDS are now treatable, but not yet curable. One of the pre-eminent AIDS/HIV researchers into the disease and advocate for those it has infected is the incoming Dean of Rutgers School of Public Health, Dr. Perry Halkitis. He joins Correspondent Brenda Flanagan. Flanagan: Your identity is […]

Too Much Secrecy

We are hurtling toward one of the most significant pieces of legislation in recent congressional history, with real-life consequences for every single American. Now if only we knew something about it. Such is the reality of the Obamacare repeal being crafted by a group of Republican senators – including South Dakota senior member John Thune […]

Congress Passes VA Accountability Bill

WASHINGTON — Congress has approved long-sought legislation to make firing employees easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs, part of an effort urged by President Donald Trump to fix a struggling agency serving millions of veterans. The House cleared the bill, 368-55, on June 13, replacing an earlier version that Democrats had criticized as overly […]

Cuomo NY Healthcare Stays Intact Despite Trump

Gearing up for a possible repeal of the Affordable Care Act, New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo is looking to shore up health care for his constituents. The governor has directed the New York State Department of Health to ban all insurance companies who withdraw from the state’s health insurance exchange if they don’t participate […]

Free Health Clinics Make a Comeback

After eight years of stagnant growth during Obamacare’s coverage expansion, free and charitable health clinics are experiencing a major growth spurt amid Republican efforts to slash health coverage for the poor. A safety-net health care provider for low-income Americans, the nation’s 1,200-plus free clinics typically are underfunded, understaffed and overwhelmed by an outsized mission that […]

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Official Hopes Charges in Flint Will Restore Trust

FLINT, Mich. —In a battered city where many still refuse to bathe in tap water, much less drink it, the prosecution of officials accused of letting Flint’s public supply become contaminated with toxic lead and failing to warn of deadly bacteria represents a tentative step toward restoring trust in government. Still, the path ahead is […]

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