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Horse Riding Helps Girl Strengthen Core

JASPER, Ind. — Charlotte Bradley of Ferdinand, 6, stood in the stirrups on Cowgirl’s back and reached to place a black magnet on a metal frame on the barn wall at Freedom Reins Therapeutic Riding Center’s facility. When she sat back down, she road Cowgirl to the other side of the arena, stood and stretched […]

Apps to Overcome Fertility “Gag Rule”

If ever there was a moment to challenge U.S. government overreach into women’s healthcare, this is it. Under President Donald Trump, the White House looks set to implement policies that will negatively impact women’s reproductive rights around the world. The overreach began on January 23, when Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy, often […]

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Executives Optimistic About Future of Telehealth

If your healthcare organization is planning to invest in telehealth systems and services, you’re not alone—a new study finds that 83% of respondents say they are likely or very likely to open their checkbook this year. Only 1% said they were not likely at all to invest in telehealth. The overwhelming reason: competitive advantage over […]

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Minnesota to Expand Mental Health Services

MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing is using a $2.1 million grant to expand mental health services to underserved parts of the state. The nursing school will partner with the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Touchstone Mental Health and Northern Pines Mental Health Center to train students, as well as provide mental health […]

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Healthcare Reform Expert Joins HHS

John R. Graham has been appointed as a Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to sources with direct knowledge of the situation. Graham’s appointment, which is expected to be announced Wednesday afternoon fills a vacancy in the Division of Planning and Evaluation, which HHS says is “responsible […]

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Obamacare Costs Still Problematic

Far from the national debate about health insurance swirling in the halls of government and corporate boardrooms, Bob Isaacson works in his office in Holdrege, Nebraska, to help people get health plans they can afford. And it’s getting harder every year. Seven years since President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, forever tied to […]

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FDA Nominee: I Would Challenge Trump on Vaccines

Washington – Scott Gottlieb, a Westport doctor, on Wednesday calmly defused tough questions from Democrats during the confirmation hearing on his nomination to head the Food and Drug Administration, promising to safeguard the agency’s rigorous review of drugs and medical devices. He also said he would keep his independence from the White House and oppose […]

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W.Va. Mayor Takes on Drug Distributors

WELCH, W.Va. — In this once prosperous West Virginia coal town of 1,900 people, residents say it’s not just the decades-long demise of mining that hurt the community — it’s the scourge of drug use that came with it. Here, almost everyone knows someone who became addicted. And the Appalachian town is fighting back by […]

Suit Seeks to Ban Pesticide Linked to Autism

Three environmental groups asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to order the EPA to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos. EarthJustice, which is representing the Pesticide Action Network and the Natural Resources Defense Council, was responding to the EPA’s recent announcement that it would not be following through on its own decision to ban the pesticide, […]

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University of Minnesota to Expand Mental Health Services

MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing is using a $2.1 million grant to expand mental health services to underserved parts of the state. The nursing school will partner with the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Touchstone Mental Health and Northern Pines Mental Health Center to train students as well as provide mental health […]

Embrace Single-Payer Plan

With the collapse of RyanCare, the Trump administration is looking for a new plan. We’re going to need one, since health-care reform isn’t going away. At best, we just kicked the can down the road. We’re still living with the night of the living dead that is ObamaCare. It’s slowly dying because too few people […]

Prosecutors: Fake “Nurse” Treated Patients

SAN FRANCISCO — Prosecutors have charged a man with no medical training of lying his way into a volunteer nursing position at a San Francisco clinic. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that 39-year-old Brian Litz was arraigned March 30 on charges of practicing medicine without a license and identity theft. He has pleaded not guilty. […]

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