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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.

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Worries Over Turf’s Link to Cancer Holds Up Project

NEWNAN, Georgia — The money is budgeted, the athletic committee has given the go-ahead and Superintendent Steve Barker has his recommendation ready. So why has the Coweta County School System not moved ahead with installing artificial turf on its high school football fields in the two and a half years since the project was first […]

Trump Policies Threat to Veterans’ Care

Veterans voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by a 2-to-1 margin back in November. But a couple of changes that the new administration has underway are likely to put a particular squeeze on former service members’ health care. One particular flashpoint is at the Department of Veterans Affairs. When President Trump made good on […]

California’s Immigrant Kids Could Lose Care First

On a recent rainy morning in Los Angeles, Maria Bernal’s stove clicks to life with a bright blue flame to toast bread on a griddle for her 9-year-old son Edwin to smear with peanut butter. As she scoops papaya chunks into the blender for a smoothie, she recalls her worry during all the years when […]

Medical Groups Say Travel Ban Worsens Shortages

Some groups are concerned President Trump’s order blocking people from seven countries from entering the United States could harm healthcare. The order could worsen the shortage of doctors in the United States, warns the Association of American Medical Colleges. We are deeply concerned that the Jan. 27 executive order will disrupt education and research and […]

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Trump Already Ruining Healthcare, Obama Chief Warns

WASHINGTON ― Andy Slavitt helped save Obamacare once already. He’s hoping he can do it again. Until Inauguration Day, Slavitt had been acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services since March 2015. That agency oversees the two health programs in its name along with the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Affordable […]

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Panel Sets Aside Rule to Forward HHS, Treasury Picks

The Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday approved President Trump’s picks for Health and Treasury secretaries after Republicans decided to suspend the panel’s rules and vote without any Democrats present. The rule they suspended had required at least one Democrat to be present for votes. It was the latest escalation in partisan tensions in the new […]

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Will Paul Ryan’s Idea Work for Pre-Existing Ailments?

The pre-existing conditions issue played a central role in the design of the Affordable Care Act, and dealing with this issue appropriately in any ACA replacement plan will be instrumental to the achievement of stable and sustainable individual and small group health insurance markets. House Speaker Paul Ryan and House Republicans’ June 2016 Better Way […]

Gates Foundation Gives $279M to University of Washington

SEATTLE — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is awarding $279 million to the University of Washington to expand its work in improving global population health, the largest private donation to the university, officials said Wednesday. The grant funds another decade of research at the university’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which provides critical […]

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