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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 […]
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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 […]
Health
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.
Students
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 […]
Blogs/Opinion
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 […]
Nursing
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, […]
Disparities
Blacks, Twice as Likely to Have Diabetes, Rare in Trials
(Reuters Health) – Even though diabetes rates are almost twice as high in black people as in whites, black patients may be far less likely to be included in drug safety trials, a recent study suggests. Since 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has required that new glucose-lowering medications for diabetes be tested for […]
Disparities
FDA Encourages Diversity in Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are voluntary human research studies designed to answer specific questions about the safety and effectiveness of drugs, vaccines, devices, and other therapies—or to study new ways of using existing treatments. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not ordinarily conduct clinical trials. But the FDA relies on the data from these trials to […]
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GOP Uneasy About Obamacare Repeal Without a Plan
WASHINGTON — Republican anxiety is mounting over voting to unravel the healthcare law without having an alternative in hand, fanned by words of encouragement from Donald Trump to a GOP senator who wants to simultaneously repeal and replace the statute. GOP leaders have made dismantling President Barack Obama’s treasured healthcare overhaul their premier 2017 priority. […]
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Obama Health Legacy: Coverage, Conflict, Questions
WASHINGTON — Although his signature law is in jeopardy, President Barack Obama’s work reshaping healthcare in America is certain to endure in the broad public support for many of its underlying principles. Notwithstanding growing pains in connection securing some of the promises of the Affordable Care Act, the belief that people with medical problems should […]
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