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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 […]
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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 […]
Blogs/Opinion
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. […]
Nursing
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 […]
Disparities
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 […]
Disparities
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 […]
Policies
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 […]
Disparities
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 […]
Other News
Healthcare Pros Critical of First 100 Days
We asked our audience of healthcare insiders about President Trump’s work on healthcare since he took office in January. Representing many political views from around the country, the majority of responses (coincidentally, we received 100 replies to this survey) were in agreement that the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency lacked clarity on healthcare’s future. […]
Policies
Trump Claims Plan Will Cover Pre-existing Illness
President Trump appeared to suggest on Sunday that the GOP’s new iteration of its healthcare bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would cover pre-existing conditions for all Americans. Trump, seeming to break from House Republicans’ latest proposal that states could opt out of an Affordable Care Act requirement on covering pre-existing conditions, […]
Women
Utah University Health Care Picks News CEO in Wake of Uproar
SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah Health Care announced Saturday the appointment of an interim leader after the previous chief executive left in the wake of an uproar over a personnel decision. Lorris Betz has been named senior vice president for the University’s Health Sciences, CEO of University of Utah Health Care and […]
Students
Silvers Continues to Lead Way for Disabled
Now completing her 50th year at San Francisco State University, Dr. Anita Silvers is a nationally prominent champion of disability rights.
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