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Veterans’ Applications Hidden In Storage Unit
RICHMOND, Va.— Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is seeking a criminal investigation after applications for veterans’ benefits were found in a storage unit belonging to a former state employee who was fired last year for mishandling records, officials said. Between 20 and 30 boxes of documents were recovered from the unit belonging to the ex-employee […]
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University Welcomes Students with Intellectual Disabilities
ELGIN, Ill. — What began in 2015 as a meeting of support between Judson alumnae Gayle Gianopulos ’88 and Nancy Binger ’97 – two mothers of children with Down syndrome – has transformed into an amazing journey. That journey has now launched a new program that will provide a collegiate experience at Judson University for […]
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Minority Men— Take Control of Your Health Needs
Disparities in health care often are thought to be the result of poverty and a related lack of access to quality health care. But clinical experience and research show that this is overly simplistic. In truth, the cause is a mix of issues that include genetics, living and working conditions, cultural obstacles with caregivers and […]
Disparities
Youth With Disabilities Get Internships
EAST LANSING, Mich. — A new on-campus internship program at Michigan State University aims to help young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities prepare for the workplace. Under the program, Spartan Project SEARCH, 10 students get on-the-job support as interns in offices, residence halls, cafes, doctor’s offices and animal clinics. Each of the interns, who […]
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Report Blames Agency in Neglect of Toddler
HARTFORD, Conn.— The state’s child advocate blames “the utter collapse of all safeguards” for the abuse and near-starvation of a toddler who was under the care of the Department of Children and Families. A scathing report by the Office of the Child Advocate, released October 4, outlines how the child welfare agency last year placed […]
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Maryland Nursing Home Patients at Risk
BALTIMORE — In December, a 59-year-old woman who cannot speak after throat cancer surgery was left outside of a Baltimore homeless center with no money and no phone — in a city where she had no family and no close friends. Vonda Wagner of Rowlesburg, West Virginia, had fallen into a black hole in the […]
Disparities
Family Demands Charges in Shooting of Unstable Man
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —The family of a man killed in July by Sacramento police after 911 callers reported he was waving a knife and acting erratically demanded that two officers face murder charges after dash-cam video revealed they talked inside their police cruiser about running him down. Joseph Mann, who was mentally unstable and homeless, dodged […]
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Tribe Lays Off 100 Health Care Workers
OKMULGEE,Okla. — Officials say the Muscogee (Creek) Nation has laid off more than 100 health care workers since October began. KTUL-TV reports that the workers are from the tribe’s six clinics and the home health program is slated to be phased out over time. In addition to the layoffs, 55 workers were transferred to other […]
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Phoenix VA Health Care System Improves
PHOENIX —Despite a new report raising serious questions about the quality of care within the Phoenix VA Health Care System, a top official in the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs says significant progress has been made. VA Undersecretary for Health David Shulkin addressed the VA Inspector General’s report while introducing a newly appointed director for […]
Blogs/Opinion
Will People of Color Use the Aid in Dying Law?
Death was a topic that wasn’t discussed in Adrienne Lawson Thompson’s home growing up. The Los Angeles native says it was such a taboo topic, that her own mother didn’t even reveal what illness she was stricken with before she died. “She didn’t want to disclose things to me because ‘Oh, you’re young. I don’t […]
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Drug May Help Reduce Alcohol Disorder
A new medication that targets part of the brain’s stress system may help reduce alcohol use in people with alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to a new study by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. “Medications have become an important tool for treating […]
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“Privacy Pods” Help Nursing Mothers
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — It’s a stand-alone, 4-by-8-foot pod that resembles a photo booth. The Durham Bulls have one, and now so does Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. LRMC earlier this month unveiled its first “lactation support pod” — the second at a U.S. military hospital and the first in Europe, hospital officials said — to give […]
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