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Disparities
Segregated Housing, High Blood Pressure—NIH Finds Link
Living in racially segregated neighborhoods is associated with a rise in the blood pressure of black adults, while moving away from segregated areas is associated with a decrease — and significant enough to lead to reductions in heart attacks and strokes, a National Institutes of Health-funded study has found. The findings, reported in the May […]
Students
4 Johns Hopkins Students Overdose at Fraternity Party
BALTIMORE — Officials say four Johns Hopkins University undergraduates were hospitalized for apparent opioid overdoses following a fraternity house party. The school mentioned the overdoses in a public safety advisory emailed to its student body Tuesday evening. According to the email, the Delta Phi fraternity has been suspended by its national organization and is not […]
Blogs/Opinion
Fact Check: Is Sexual Assault a “Pre-Existing” Condition?
Prior to the passage of the American Health Care Act in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 May 2017, critics warned that the bill would specifically put sexual assault and rape survivors at risk because it would list their circumstances as being “pre-existing conditions” subject to either price gouging or disqualification from healthcare insurance […]
Other News
Obamacare Premiums Set to Rise
Health insurers are asking for sharp increases in the cost of their Obamacare plans next year, thanks to instability in the law’s coverage markets that’s been compounded by the Trump administration. In Maryland, Virginia and Connecticut — the first states to make filings public — premiums for Affordable Care Act plans will rise more than […]
Policies
R.I. May Ease Rules on Sunscreen in Schools
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island lawmakers are considering a proposal that would allow students to take sunscreen into schools without a doctor’s note. The state House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass the bill Tuesday. The bill now moves to the Senate. Concerns about skin cancer have led several states to loosen restrictions on sunscreen […]
Disparities
NIH Selects Diverse Medical Researchers
The National Institutes of Health has selected 42 talented and diverse students, representing 35 U.S.-accredited universities, for the sixth class of its Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP). The MRSP received a record number of applications during the 2017-2018 application cycle. The 42 selected participants consist of 39 medical, two dental, and one veterinary student; 48 […]
Policies
New Law Extends VA Choice
Veterans will continue to have access to private health-care facilities closer to their homes with quicker appointments, as provided by the Veterans Choice Program Improvement Act. President Donald Trump, on April 19, signed a measure extending the program, which allows health care for service-connected medical conditions and use of funding for it until it is […]
Other News
Obama Hopes “Courage” Will Save Healthcare
Former President Barack Obama accepted the John F. Kennedy “Profile in Courage” Award in Boston on Sunday, where he spoke broadly about the healthcare debate gripping the country. In his first remarks since the House passed a bill repealing and replacing Obama’s signature healthcare law, the former president ruminated on the idea of political courage. […]
Policies
McConnell Opens Health Group to Women
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has invited all Republicans to join with what’s been an all-male working group of GOP senators to craft a health care bill, after facing criticism that women were being excluded. “McConnell stood up and said, ‘Please come and participate,’” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said in an interview, […]
Disparities
Tuskegee Study Descendants Gather
TUSKEGEE, Ala— Decades later, it’s still hard to grasp what the federal government did to hundreds of black men in rural Alabama — even if you’re among their descendants, lighting candles in their memory. For 40 years starting in 1932, medical workers in the segregated South withheld treatment for unsuspecting men infected with a sexually […]
Blogs/Opinion
Ivanka Trump, That’s Not How It Works
Ivanka Trump wants the world to know that she’s a feminist. Under the hashtag #womenwhowork (also the title of her new book on women in business, which was released on Tuesday), she’s spent the past few years building a brand based on how to be a woman who “has it all” — the adorable children, the high-powered […]
Other News
Unabated Lice Frustrate Families
RENO, Nev. — Reno mom Sara Kopp searches through every strand of her daughter’s blond hair at least once a week. She meticulously combs through it, watching for lice after treating her 10-year-old for the bugs 15 times over the school year. “When I realized my daughter had it after brushing her hair, I called […]
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