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Michigan State Opens Medical Clinic in Detroit

DETROIT — Gifts of property to universities often are sold and endowments are established in the donor’s name, but the family of Dr. Michael Popoff had other ideas for the Detroit clinic where he practiced for nearly a half-century before his death last year. The gift to Michigan State University came with a stipulation: The […]

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Digitized Records Create Need for Medical “Scribes”

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Electronic medical records have spawned a new health care profession: medical scribe. Working alongside doctors, scribes enter information into a computer, their fingers furiously typing away so the doctors’ digits don’t have to. “I feel like it benefits me, but it benefits the patients more,” said Dr. Meena Agarwala of St. Luke’s […]

Aging Boomers May Need Wider Network of Kin, Friends

NEW ORLEANS–Family members already form an “invisible workforce” that cares for America’s frail elders. But changes in policy and family structure — from later-life divorce to smaller families — suggest that friends and extended family will play even more important roles as caregivers in coming years. Eighteen million Americans already care regularly for a fragile […]

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Patient’s Suit Alleges Rape at Mental Hospital

HELENA, Mont. — A woman who was criminally committed to Montana State Hospital has sued the state, alleging that she was sexually assaulted and impregnated by another patient at the psychiatric facility. In the lawsuit filed in District Court in Helena, the woman said the hospital failed to supervise her adequately, leading to the rape […]

Michigan Pushing to Make Flint 11th Promise Zone

Lawmakers in Michigan are pushing to make Flint the state’s 11th Promise Zone to help residents get back on their feet as they cope with an ongoing water crisis and to encourage young people to stay in the city.

Loss of Obamacare Will Hit Poor, White Voters

Donald Trump has chosen GOP Rep. Tom Price of Georgia, a longtime critic of the Affordable Care Act, as his secretary for Health and Human Services. This likely means that, at best, the health law will be repealed and replaced by something that covers far fewer people, or that, at worst, it will get repealed […]

Mobile Clinic Helps Cancer Patients

McALLEN, Texas — Many of the patients who come to Paul Toscano’s free mobile clinic are jobless. Uninsured. Undocumented. Desperate. The Houston Chronicle reports that the physician’s assistant treats so many inside this retrofitted RV that it’s impossible to remember them all. Some he’ll never forget. He closes his eyes and thinks of a woman […]

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Md. Democrats Vow Fight for Planned Parenthood

WASHINGTON — Baltimore resident Annie Sageng relied on Planned Parenthood for many different reasons while growing up. In high school, she drove her friends there to pick up birth control and pregnancy tests. Eventually she was the one picking up the birth control. Then she was a volunteer. Now, the 28-year-old is the Maryland Planned […]

N.J. County Equips School Nurses to Use Narcan

TOMS RIVER, N.J. — Ocean County has become the first county in New Jersey to supply all of its high school nurses with Narcan, the drug that is used to reverse opioid overdoses. County prosecutor Joseph Coronato says he made the decision to equip nurses with the life-saving antidote after hearing about a recent overdose […]

Journal: Implicit Bias Matters in Health Care

The #BlackLivesMatter movement arose almost three years ago on social media, prompted by what many saw as law enforcement’s unfair and biased handling of blacks. Substantial evidence also shows parallels of biased treatment within health care, limiting access and quality of care because of racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. We understand the problem better, but […]

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Campus Events Canceled Because of Mumps

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri has canceled a popular event and is urging student groups to halt others as the number of confirmed and probable mumps cases climbs to 128. University spokesman Christian Basi said Thursday that “for the safety of our students and university community” the school has called off a late […]

Kansas Dementia Research Focuses on Exercise

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Ann Poehler’s strides quicken on the treadmill. Her feet pound. Her heart races from 150 to 160 beats per minute and more. A plastic tube jutting from the Prairie Village woman’s mouth feeds carbon dioxide levels to a computer here inside the University of Kansas Alzheimer’s Disease Center. The computer records every […]

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