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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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Medical Student Incorporates Indigenous Medicine

Leo John Bird, a member of the AmskapiiPiikanii tribe, is known to his community as Piitahsoowatsis. A senior at Stanford University in California, Bird is majoring in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and Native American Studies. He comes from a culture that stresses family and equality, and it impacts his life as well as […]

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NIH: Findings in Mice Suggest Obesity Treatments

A team of scientists led by researchers from the National Institutes of Health has identified an enzyme that could help in the continuous battle against mid-life obesity and fitness loss. The discovery in mice could upend current notions about why people gain weight as they age, and could one day lead to more effective weight-loss […]

Nursing School Provides Care on Wheels

JACKSON, Miss. — For almost 20 years, the University of Mississippi School of Nursing has been running the UNACARE Health Clinic in Jackson’s Midtown. Now, it has a new tool to bring medical care to even more patients. Starting this summer, the clinic will take health care directly to patients in the Midtown area two […]

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What’s a Pre-Existing Condition?

The American Health Care Act, the GOP plan to overhaul the US healthcare system, passed in the House on Thursday. What counts as a preexisting condition that could get you denied coverage under the new plan? A lot. The bill raises concerns, especially from patient advocacy groups and physicians, that under the AHCA, people with […]

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Buffett: “Huge Tax Cut for Guys Like Me”

Billionaire Warren Buffett on Saturday criticized the Republican healthcare plan, passed through the House last week, as a “huge tax cut for guys like me” and bad news for the less fortunate. “When there’s a tax cut, either the deficit goes up or they get the taxes from somebody else,” Buffet told shareholders at Berkshire […]

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Senate Wary of House Health Plan

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans have shown they have little use for the House bill to repeal and replace Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act amid fears among Americans that people already sick won’t be able to get affordable insurance. “I’m going to read the House bill, find out what it costs and where I find good […]

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Why Not Try Trump’s Campaign Plan?

The sentiment behind the slogan “drain the swamp” was part of President Andrew Jackson’s effort to rid Washington of cronyism and corruption in 1828. This call has new meaning in 2017, intensified by the saga of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s failed American Health Care Act (AHCA). Obamacare, ironically called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act […]

Marshall U. Students Learn About Stigmas

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A diagnosis of HIV/AIDS comes with new medications (hopefully) and a change of lifestyle, but it also comes with a new stigma attached to a person. “As a physician, you really see the clinical aspect of treating a patient,” said Abbie Short, third-year Marshall University Honors College student. “You just see them […]

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