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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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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V.A. Doctor Suspended Over Prescriptions

CINCINNATI — Officials have indefinitely suspended the deputy chief of staff at the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center in a move her lawyers call a “publicity stunt.” The Cincinnati Enquirer reports Dr. Barbara Temeck was suspended for writing three prescriptions for a private patient between December 2012 and May 2013. Her lawyer, Ken Hawley, says […]

Kimmel: Pre-Existing Conditions Are No Joke

With the US in the throes of another contentious debate over healthcare, comedian Jimmy Kimmel used his late-night TV stage to put a very personal spin on an issue that is a matter of life and death for millions of Americans. On yesterday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host fought back tears to reveal that his […]

Dear Mr. Trump, About Single-Payer

Single-payer healthcare is making a comeback. A new survey by Morning Consult/Gallup finds that 44 percent of American voters support universal, government-run healthcare. Meanwhile, two California state senators introduced the Healthy California Act in February, a bill that would create a single-payer system in the Golden State. Even some prominent conservatives are backing the idea. […]

Board Bars New Enrollments for Nursing Program

Low examination pass rates from Houston Community College’s vocational nursing graduates provoked state accreditors to block the school from enrolling new students to the program until scores improve. The Texas Board of Nursing placed the vocational nursing program, which grants certificates, on “conditional” status at its April meeting because less than 80 percent of graduates […]

Native American Health Exhibit on Tour

WICHITA FALLS, TX – For the next six weeks, Midwestern State University’s Moffett Library will feel more like a museum as the traveling exhibit “Native Voices Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness” makes residence in the leisure reading area. MSU was one of six sites selected to host the exhibit that allows visitors to […]

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NIH Research Helps Asthma Sufferers

May is Asthma Awareness Month, and the National Institutes of Health is finding solutions to improve the health of the nearly 25 million people in the United States who currently have asthma. In recent decades, the prevalence of asthma has been increasing, resulting in millions of urgent medical visits and missed days of work and […]

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Yale Law Clinic Sues for Vets with PTSD

The Yale Law School Veterans Legal Services Clinic filed a national class-action lawsuit last week on behalf of two U.S. Army veterans, Stephen Kennedy and Alicia Carson, who allege that they were wrongfully denied honorable discharges as a result of mental health conditions incurred during their military service. The suit alleges that the Army Discharge […]

Md. Governor Orders Study of Pot Disparities

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has ordered a study of the state’s developing medical marijuana industry to ensure opportunities for minority participation. Hogan directed the Governor’s Office of Minority Affairs to initiate a disparity study. He instructed the office to work together with the state’s medical marijuana commission and the transportation department. “As […]

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