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Medical Groups Split on Trump HHS Pick

The medical community is divided on whether they support or oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead HHS — Rep. Tom Price, MD (R-Ga.), according to MedPage Today. Here are five takeaways: 1. The American Medical Students Association, Physicians for a National Health Program and National Nurses United oppose Mr. Trump’s pick. 2. The Americans […]

Trump Choice for HHS Vows to Divest Health Stocks

Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services will sell off his healthcare investments after facing scrutiny over his stock trades. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), in a letter to the HHS ethics office, vowed to divest his interests in 43 companies within 90 days if confirmed by the Senate. Read More

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100s Face Loss of Disability Checks in Fraud Probe

MINNIE, Ky. —Donna Dye saw the coal truck come barreling over the horizon and her head started spinning with that familiar, desperate urge to end it all. She thought of the disconnect notices, the engagement ring she pawned to keep the lights on, the house she loved and would probably lose. Life insurance was the […]

Stocks Slide After Trump Attacks Drugmakers

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said pharmaceutical companies are “getting away with murder” in what they charge the government for medicines, and promised that would change, sending drugs stocks sharply lower. The benchmark S&P 500 index .SPX slipped into negative territory after his remarks at a news conference spooked investors. The iShares Nasdaq Biotech […]

Rural Hospitals Brace for Healthcare Repeal

CONNELLSVILLE, Penn. — Judy Keller, 69, has always relied on Highlands Hospital for medical care, just as her parents did before her. When she walks through the halls, she recognizes faces from the community and even from her days working as a school teacher. The 64-bed facility, she says, is a mainstay of this rural […]

Trump Choice of Antivaccine Leader Alarms Experts

The U.S. medical community is responding with reactions ranging from apprehension to dismay at reports that President-elect Donald Trump reportedly asked a renowned vaccine skeptic to head a new commission on vaccine safety. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has written articles and books claiming a link between childhood vaccines and autism, said Tuesday that Trump […]

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2017 Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs

The University of Vermont and the University of West Georgia are among the 2017 Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs, making them the only schools to make the list in each of its four years of existence.

Bones of Mengele, ‘Angel of Death,’ Teaching Tool in Brazil

SAO PAULO — For more than 30 years, the bones of Josef Mengele, a German doctor who conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Jews at Auschwitz, lay unclaimed inside a blue plastic bag in Sao Paulo’s Legal Medical Institute. Dr. Daniel Romero Munoz, who led the team that identified Mengele’s remains in 1985, saw an […]

Bernie Sanders: Trump Must Rescue Obamacare or Admit Lies

It didn’t take long. During the first week of 2017, the new Republican Congress has begun efforts to dismantle America’s health-care system. Their long-standing goal, consistent with their right-wing ideology, is to take away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans, privatize Medic300are, make massive cuts to Medicaid and defund Planned Parenthood. At the […]

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UMKC Nursing Dean Receives Federal Honor

KANSAS CITY, MO – Ann Cary, dean of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing and Health Studies, has been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The national advisory council — comprised of up to 23 members including students, practicing […]

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Trump Nominee Makes False Claims about Birth Control

This week, Donald Trump announced his picks for his Domestic Policy Council, and on that list is Katy Talento, an infectious disease epidemiologist who will work on health care policy. There’s still a few weeks before the President-elect is sworn into office, but Talento has already come under fire for claims she has made about […]

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Nominee for HHS Sought Favors for Health Industry Donors

Rep. Tom Price, the physician and Georgia Republican tapped for the nation’s leading health care job, has long criticized federal spending as excessive. Yet during his years in Congress, he’s worked hard to keep federal dollars flowing to his most generous campaign donors. Price has been a go-to congressman, a review of his records show, […]

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