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Blogs/Opinion
Another Casualty of Ban: Medical Training and Rural Healthcare
The chaos among immigrant families and at airports wreaked nationwide by President Trump’s executive order barring nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States has been well documented. Not as well understood are the effects his order will have on U.S. medical training and healthcare, especially in poor and rural neighborhoods. Ahmad Masri […]
Disparities
Grant Awarded for Coal Communities
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A health professor and researcher at Marshall University has received a $1.3 million federal grant to continue health care work in areas affected by coal in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. The university said the recipient is Richard D. Crespo of the Department of Family and Community Health at the medical school. […]
Other News
Trump’s VA Pick Pledges to Save Agency
WASHINGTON — Physician David Shulkin is headed toward likely confirmation as President Donald Trump’s veterans affairs secretary after offering repeated assurances to sometimes skeptical senators that he will work quickly to meet the medical care needs of millions of veterans without dismantling the beleaguered department. At his confirmation hearing, Shulkin, the top health official at […]
Other News
Weed 101: Colorado Shares Agricultural Expertise
DENVER — North Carolina wants to know if marijuana could one day replace tobacco as a cash crop. Louisiana is wondering how pot holds up in high humidity. Washington state has questions about water supplies for weed. Colorado agriculture officials had answers for them all as they briefed officials from about a dozen states — […]
Policies
3 Charts: How Trump’s Ban Threatens Healthcare
Over the past few days, our inboxes have been flooded with letters from doctors and medical researchers whose lives have been shaken up by President Donald Trump’s executive order, which, among other things, restricts immigrants and visa holders from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US. We’ve heard from foreign-born health care workers who are […]
Policies
What We Need to Know About Court Nominee
President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch, PhD, a judge in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Colorado, to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia. Here are four things to know about President Trump’s pick and his views on healthcare. 1. Judge Gorsuch, if confirmed, is expected to restore a slightly conservative lean […]
Policies
Hiring Freeze Could Affect Indian Care
After a temporary federal hiring freeze, concerns have arisen over filling jobs at long-understaffed Native American health care facilities, although an official exemption for some hiring could be on the way. “Any freeze in hiring for Indian initiatives, whether temporary or permanent, threatens to make the challenges facing Indian Country worse,” Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., […]
Disparities
Women Could Pay More for Less With Repeal
WASHINGTON— From a return to higher premiums based on gender, to gaps in coverage for birth control and breast pumps, experts say women could end up paying more for less if the Obama-era health care law is repealed. The 2010 law ended a common industry practice of charging women more than men for policies purchased […]
Women
Tyesha Burks Takes on Age-defying Mission
Dr. Tyesha N. Burks, selected by Diverse as a member of the 2017 Class of Emerging Scholars, is on a mission to remedy the problem that everyone faces even if they avoid or survive a particular disease: aging.
Blogs/Opinion
What Trump Can Do to Fix Healthcare
My friend Patrick Spain, a serial internet entrepreneur, now runs a tele-medicine company called First Stop Health to which I subscribe. In other words, all of the flus, backaches, rashes, passing infections, and 24-hour viruses, the stuff of most doctor visits, are, in my house, handled by a telephone call. Call a number, describe your […]
Policies
Va. Senate OKs Wider Use of Marijuana Oil
RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Senate has approved a bill expanding the number of ailments that can be treated with two derivatives of the marijuana plant. The chamber voted January 26 on the measure that allows people with cancer, HIV, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis and a number of other diseases to access cannabidiol oil or […]
Other News
Drexel Team Awarded $12M Grant for Study
PHILADELPHIA — A research team at Drexel University in Philadelphia has been awarded a $12 million grant by a British foundation to examine the effects of urban life on the health of Latin Americans. WCAU-TV reports Ana Diez Roux, dean of Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health, will head the team. The study is one […]
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