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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 […]
Disparities
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
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 […]
Policies
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 […]
Policies
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 […]
Policies
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 […]
Blogs/Opinion
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 […]
Disparities
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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Budget Deal Defies Trump on Medical Research
The budget agreement Congress reached tonight would give the National Institutes of Health a $2 billion increase for the second year in a row, a Senate GOP aide confirms. That means congressional negotiators basically told the Trump administration to take a hike. The administration wanted to slash the agency’s funding by $1.2 billion in the […]
Policies
N.Y. Drops Request for Prison Care
A year ago, the Cuomo administration announced it would seek a waiver from the feds to provide Medicaid coverage 30 days before release to prisoners with significant mental or physical health issues. But a day before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the state withdrew its request. With a new administration and new leaders at the Department […]
Disparities
Hospitals Seek Alternatives to Opioids
BALTIMORE — A car crash shattered Stuart Anders’ thigh, leaving pieces of bone sticking through his skin. Yet Anders begged emergency room doctors not to give him powerful opioid painkillers — he’d been addicted once before and panicked at the thought of relapsing. “I can’t lose what I worked for,” he said. The nation’s opioid […]
Disparities
Death Rate for Blacks Drops 25 Percent
The death rate for African-Americans (blacks) declined 25 percent from 1999 to 2015, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report released, but disparities persist between blacks and whites. Although blacks as a group are living longer, their life expectancy is still four years less than that of whites. Disparities in all age groups are […]
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