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Bill Proposes Commission to Protect California’s College Athletes
LOS ANGELES — A California legislator is proposing that the state create a commission to protect the health and safety of collegiate athletes, something the bill says the NCAA and school athletic departments have failed to do. The commission and its rules would apply to every competing college athlete in the state, from a community […]
Blogs/Opinion
Drain the Healthcare Swamp
In his Feb. 28 address to the Joint Session of Congress, President Trump called the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or “ObamaCare”) an “imploding disaster.” His references to soaring premiums, contracting choices, and market collapse are all spot on. And of course everybody wants “reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower costs, and at the same […]
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VA Psychiatrist Charged with $198K Fraud
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Federal prosecutors say a psychiatrist at a Veterans Affairs hospital in western New York bilked a health care provider out of nearly $200,000 by charging for private services he didn’t provide. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Rochester says 52-year-old Dr. Xingjia Cui, of Pittsford, has been charged with health care fraud, money […]
Disparities
Sioux’s Turnips May Block Staph Infection
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — For the not so many people who have consumed them, Psoralea esculenta, or prairie turnips, are not considered to be the stuff of fine dining. But the turnip, which is grown in Siouxland and the upper Great Plains, could have a key role ahead in inhibiting the growth of disease-causing bacteria. […]
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Australia Weighs Banning Unvaccinated from Childcare
Unvaccinated children would be banned from childcare centres and preschools under an Australian government plan. Some Australian states already have “no jab, no play” laws, but PM Malcolm Turnbull is calling for nationwide legislation. Health groups have supported the push, arguing parents and the community have an obligation to protect children. An Australian Child Health […]
Disparities
Study: African Gene Variant Tied to Obesity
An international team of researchers has conducted the first study of its kind to look at the genomic underpinnings of obesity in continental Africans and African-Americans. They discovered that approximately 1 percent of West Africans, African-Americans and others of African ancestry carry a genomic variant that increases their risk of obesity, a finding that provides […]
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GOP Scrambles After CBO Report
House Republican leaders plunged into damage control mode Monday after a brutal budgetary assessment of their Obamacare replacement threatened to upend Senate GOP support and armed their critics on the left. Speaker Paul Ryan’s team quickly pinpointed rosier elements of the report by the Congressional Budget Office, from cost savings to lower premiums. But the […]
Policies
Text of CBO Official Report: AHCA Cost Estimate
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2017 directed the House Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce to develop legislation to reduce the deficit. The Congressional Budget Office and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have produced an estimate of the budgetary effects of the American Health […]
Policies
CBO: 24M More Americans Out Under “Trumpcare”
The Congressional Budget Office on Monday estimated that as many as 24 million more people would be uninsured and that the federal budget deficit would shrink by more than $300 billion over the next decade under the Republican healthcare bill. The findings came in a much-anticipated report detailing the possible effects of the American Health […]
Blogs/Opinion
When Patients Mentor Doctors
It was a cold December morning in 2015, and Roger was slowly dying. With end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Roger had been in and out of the hospital for months, each episode worse than the last. Once a functional New Yorker who walked to his favorite corner store with an oxygen tank, Roger had […]
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Colorado Moves to Limit Home-Grown Marijuana
DENVER — Colorado is moving toward limiting growing marijuana at home under a bill that sets a max of 12 plants per residential property. A House committee voted 11-2 on March 6 to curb the nation’s most generous allowances for growing pot at home. Colorado currently allows medical pot patients to grow up to 99 […]
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Idaho House to Consider Abortion Law Repeals
BOISE, Idaho — A proposal to reverse two anti-abortion laws in Idaho was headed to the House floor for debate after being approved at the committee level by lawmakers hesitant to loosen the state’s tough anti-abortion stance. Earlier this year, a federal judge agreed to give the Idaho Legislature time to repeal two laws passed […]
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