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Lawsuits, Health Regulations and Student Safety: Colleges Weigh Whether to Require COVID-19 Vaccines

OANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – For Virginia students, the college checklist this year may include more than laptops and backpacks. Proof of a COVID-19 vaccine could be just as important. Already, three Virginia schools – Mary Baldwin, Virginia Wesleyan and Hampton University – will require the shots, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, which has […]

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Boston University to Begin Administering COVID Vaccines to Students, Faculty Staff on Monday

After requiring all members of its community to receive a COVID-19 vaccine to return to campus in the fall, Boston University will begin administering doses to students, faculty and staff on Monday. The vaccine will be administered through Friday and appointments are required after Boston Medical Center provided the university with several thousand doses. Student […]

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State Says Providers Must Help College Students Returning Home Get Their Second Vaccines

Many college students are moving back to their hometowns this week, and some of them are between doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Danny Berlin, a 20-year-old actuarial science sophomore at Penn State University, said getting his first shot in was simple. “I saw in an article that they were going to be giving vaccines at […]

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Christine Daley is Appointed as First Department Chair Within the College of Health

Christine Daley has been appointed as the chair of the newly-established Department of Community and Population Health. The department plans to offer a bachelor of science degree in population health as well as a bachelor of arts degree in community and global health. The department is the first to be formed within the College of […]

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COVID-19 Delayed Duquesne’s Medical School Project, But Pandemic Shows That It’s Needed, University Says

Starting a medical college is never easy. Add a pandemic, a recession, tens of millions of dollars in unexpected campus costs to tame the virus, a philanthropic community taxed by COVID-19’s human toll and … … Well, you get the idea. But more than a year after campuses nationwide were shuttered by the pandemic, Duquesne […]

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Mental Health a Challenge for Georgia College Students, Providers

As a DJ played music outside Clayton State University’s student center on a recent Friday, assistant nursing professor Tamara Thompson-Jackson stood at a table talking to students about their mental health. One frequently asked question by students who stopped at the booth, part of a university health fair, was what are the signs and symptoms […]

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Hampton University Mobile Health Unit Brings Vaccines to Communities

Hampton University requires all of its faculty and staff to be vaccinated by May 31. Employees won’t have to look far to meet that requirement, thanks to some innovative thinking from the school. Read More

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U of U Health Offers Reassurance About the Safety and Necessity of COVID-19 Vaccines

In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic gained ever greater traction in the United States and across the world, 24-year-old Natasha went home to see her parents in Colorado. The University of Utah employee had worked hard to stay up-to-date on scientific understanding of the virus. Her parents were both at high-risk of […]

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Augusta University Health System Loses $20M, Plans Cost Cuts

The Augusta University Health is looking to cut costs after running a $20 million deficit in the first nine months of its budget year. The deficit stems from increased costs, coming at least in part from the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

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Maternal Mortality Rates Considered Crisis in US, Especially for Black Women

Maternal mortality rates are being considered a crisis in the United States. Vice President Kamala Harris is calling for urgent action as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report Black women in the U.S. are three times more likely to die while giving birth. Lisa Saul, president of the Mother and Baby Clinical Service […]

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Future Nurses, Doctors Want Pandemic Lessons to Create Better Health Care

Sang Hee Baek started nursing school at the University of Toronto last fall as the second wave of the pandemic was putting health-care staff in parts of the country through an endurance test, making her wonder if she’d made the right career choice. Nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists and others working with COVID-19 patients were becoming […]

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Black or ‘Other’? Doctors May Be Relying on Race to Make Decisions About Your Health

When she first learned about race correction, Naomi Nkinsi was one of five Black medical students in her class at the University of Washington. Nkinsi remembers the professor talking about an equation doctors use to measure kidney function. The professor said eGFR equations adjust for several variables, including the patient’s age, sex and race. When […]

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