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Dental Hygiene to Prevent Disease Among Wampanoag

Massachusetts’s summer resorts in Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard offer miles of sand and sea, and they are not among the areas of the country that one would think have a dental disparity problem. The Wampanoag Native Americans who are based on the Cape and Vineyard, however, experience a lack of preventive and low-cost restorative […]

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College Gets Grant for Native Americans in Nursing

The Indian Health Service has awarded a grant of more than $300,000 to University of New Mexico College of Nursing to educate more American Indian and Native Alaskan nursing students. The three-year “American Indians Into Nursing” grant brings together the UNM College of Nursing, San Juan College and UNM Center for Native American Health. Read […]

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Former Surgeon General Addresses Health Disparities

Novello, MD, former U.S. Surgeon General, November 4 during a lecture sponsored by Feinberg’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, speaking on health disparities in the United States. “She is impressive and inspiring; she has had an incredible personal journey. She is here to share her wisdom, her life story and her experiences,” said Clyde Yancy, […]

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Statins Underused Among Women, Minorities

Use of cholesterol-lowering statin medications in the United States rocketed upward 80% in the decade between 2002 and 2013. But new research suggests that the drugs shown to prevent heart attacks and strokes remain underused, especially among women, ethnic minorities and the uninsured. Close to 40 million American adults over 40 took statin medications in […]

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S.D. Governor Ditches Medicaid Plan After Talk with Pence

PIERRE, S.D. — Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard says he won’t pursue an expansion of Medicaid in 2017 after a discussion with Vice President-elect Mike Pence. The South Dakota governor said in a statement that his decision is based on a meeting November 14 in which he and Pence talked about the Trump administration’s plans for […]

Women’s Caucus: “Fight Trump on Abortion, Healthcare”

California’s women lawmakers are fighting against President-elect Donald Trump’s statements that he’d support overturning abortion rights. “President-elect Trump’s statements and policies threaten to restrict our freedoms, cut off our healthcare, affect our economy and the pocketbooks of working families, and drag us back to an era of back alley abortions,” said state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson […]

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Healthcare: Sky Isn’t Falling After Trump Election

The new Chief Executive Officer of the United States of America Inc. will take office January 20th and likely make good on his promise to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It only requires a majority in both houses of Congress to pass and that’s assured based on the election results last week. […]

Montana Vote Expands Medical Marijuana

HELENA, Mont.— Montana voters approved an expansion of medical marijuana, one of four citizen initiatives on the ballot, which is the most in any state election since 2010. The other ballot measures asked voters to decide whether to ban trapping on public lands, fund brain research and insert a crime victims’ rights law into the […]

Aims Nursing Class Scores Perfection

The 2016 class from Aims Community College’s nursing program is perfect, having achieved a 100 percent pass rate on a licensure exam, according to an Aims news release. The average national pass rate on the National Council Licensure Examination-RN is 86 percent, meaning Aims is at the top of its jurisdiction and the country, according […]

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LSU Offers Grads 1-Year Bachelor’s in Nursing

NEW ORLEANS — Graduates of Houma’s community college can now use those credits to get a bachelor’s of nursing degree in one year at Louisiana State University’s nursing school in New Orleans. LSU Health New Orleans says the agreement will let registered nurses with an associate degree from Fletcher Technical Community College earn a bachelor […]

OSU Health Systems Celebrates New Location

The Oklahoma State University Center for Health Systems Innovation celebrated the grand opening of its new location on Friday. The center, a joint venture between the OSU Spears School of Business in Stillwater and the OSU Center for Health Sciences, is now housed in the Cyntergy Building at 810 S. Cincinnati Ave. “We are bringing […]

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FSU Recruits Black Caregivers for Project

Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are tough on patients but also on caregivers, especially African-Americans. Now Rob Glueckauf, a Florida State University College of Medicine professor, and his health-service team are offering a new approach that they hope will benefit numerous caregivers. And it’s free. His three-year project is called ACTS 2 (African-American Alzheimer’s Caregiver […]

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