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University of Delaware Opens Concussion Clinic

NEWARK, Del. — A new clinic at the University of Delaware employs new research to tackle traumatic head injuries. The News Journal of Wilmington reports the university partnered with Christiana Care to create the STAR Health Concussion Clinic, which opened June 6. Center director Carolyn Haines says the clinic’s Newark location is designed to help […]

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Arkansas School Gets $11M for Infectious Disease Research

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency is awarding the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences an $11 million federal grant for research on infectious diseases. The grant is from an arm of the National Institutes of Health, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. It’s the second grant for a program […]

Healthcare: What Puzzles Me Is……

Before we can adequately debate healthcare – at the state or national level – I think we have to figure out what are we talking about. I’m still puzzled about what we are buying. Is it a cooperative bulk-purchasing club for health services and medical goods, somewhat like Costco operates? Read More

Valedictorian, Twin with Cerebral Palsy, Hopes to Fight Disease

Asked if there will be anything special about high school graduation, Lizbeth Gomez glances down and shyly shares, “I’ll be valedictorian.” After chatting with this 17-year-old senior for nearly two hours, it’s an astonishing accomplishment to reveal so late in an interview. But when you get to know Gomez, you come to understand that being […]

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Trump to Appoint UNC Doctor to Cancer Institute

The director of the University of North Carolina’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center could be headed to Washington, D.C., to lead the National Cancer Institute. President Donald Trump announced Friday that he intends to appoint Dr. Norman “Ned” Sharpless, 50, to head the federal agency in charge of cancer research. Sharpless, a Greensboro native, has been […]

Bluefield State Signs Deal to Fill Medical Jobs

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Bluefield State College has signed an agreement with the state Department of Education to offer health sciences pathways to more quickly launch careers in medicine. The Health Science Education Pathway and the Associate of Nursing Pathway outline exact courses students need to fulfill requirements for in nursing and radiologic technician associate’s degrees […]

GOP Plan Will Hit Native People Harder

As Senate Republicans attempt to produce their own health care blueprint this week, beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act are left wondering: what will happen to me? But one community is especially vulnerable if Congress repeals the ACA: Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The American Health Care Act, the Republican bill currently making its way […]

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Key Republican Demands Action to Shore Up Insurance Markets

A senior House Republican on Thursday called for immediate action to stabilize shaky health insurance markets around the country, amid concerns that the GOP could get blamed for rising premiums and dwindling choices next year. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, said the government should keep paying billions of dollars in “cost-sharing” […]

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Skirmish Unfolding Over Healthcare

The drama over James B. Comey’s testimony Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee isn’t the only excitement playing out on Capitol Hill today. A lower-profile fight involving the House health-care bill and whether it can go over to the Senate is not exactly Comey vs. Trump on charges of Russian election interference. But it is […]

N.E. Journal: Trump’s Making Us Mentally Ill

A new review paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that a growing body of empirical evidence shows how presidential elections can have effects on physical and mental health, and can influence behavior. Specifically, they found evidence that suggests that the campaign and subsequent election of Donald Trump has had a negative […]

End the War Against the Poor

In an age when we are supposed to be a society that cares enough to see that all of us receive the health care that we need, we still have those among us who insist that people with no assets — often homeless and frequently missing meals — are supposed to exercise “personal responsibility” by […]

Scientist: Trumpcare Presents Threat to Research

A facet of the Republican-led American Health Care Act would “cripple” the advances made in using genomic and big data sets to bolster medicine, the nation’s first federal chief data scientist says. DJ Patil, U.S. chief data scientist in the latter years of Barack Obama’s presidency, wrote on Medium that Trumpcare, as the AHCA is […]

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