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Parents Channel Grief into Foundation

HARTFORD, Conn. — On the outside, Jordan Porco was a typical 18-year-old college freshman. He loved the outdoors. He snowboarded. He sought out new music, creating CDs and playlists and sharing them with his friends. So when Marisa Giarnella-Porco and her husband, Ernie Porco, received a call in February 2011 that their son had died […]

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Women Cross State Lines for Midwife Care

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — When Brianna Barker spots the big blue “Tennessee welcomes you” sign about an hour into her car trip, she breathes a little easier. Barker crosses the state line from Alabama to Tennessee every time she goes for a prenatal appointment. It’s the same welcome sign she’ll see in about a month, when […]

Parents Channel Grief of Son’s Suicide into Foundation

HARTFORD, Conn. ― On the outside, Jordan Porco was a typical 18-year-old college freshman. He loved the outdoors. He snowboarded. He sought out new music, creating CDs and playlists and sharing them with his friends. So when Marisa Giarnella-Porco and her then-husband Ernie Porco received a call in February 2011 that their son had died […]

NIH Awards $150 Million for Research on Environment and Child Health

The National Institutes of Health today announced $157 million in awards in fiscal year 2016 to launch a seven-year initiative called Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO). The ECHO program will investigate how exposure to a range of environmental factors in early development — from conception through early childhood — influences the health of […]

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Doctors Asked to Pledge to Fight Opiod Epidemic

Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A. (United States Surgeon General) sent a letter to US physicians about the impact that the opioid epidemic has had on communities and asks for their help: I am asking for your help to solve an urgent health crisis facing America: the opioid epidemic. Everywhere I travel, I see communities devastated […]

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Plans for Nebraska Nursing College Move Forward

In 2008, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents made a new medical center College of Nursing building in Lincoln its legislative priority. Then a deep recession took hold, and NU shelved the plans for a modern nursing training facility. Nearly a decade later, the program statement has been dusted off and the $20 million […]

IHS Chooses Provider for Telemedicine Services

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Indian Health Service has chosen a South Dakota-based health care system to provide telemedicine services to a network of 19 hospitals and clinics across the Great Plains in an effort to bolster the specialty care available to tribal members, some of whom currently have to travel long distances to receive […]

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Opioid Epidemic Hits Native Americans Hard

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. | American Indian tribal leaders from northern New Mexico — an area of the country devastated by heroin and opioid addiction — met with the U.S. Justice Department over ways to combat opioid abuse amid high overdose deaths among Native Americans. And both sides say much more needs to be done. Associate Deputy […]

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Doctor Alleging Racial Profiling Will Get Hearing

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses the University of Michigan of illegally firing an administrator who said black patients and visitors were victims of racial profiling at campus hospitals. Attorney James Fett says Judge Timothy Connors set a Dec. 5 trial date after hearing arguments September 22. […]

Delayed Care After Police Shootings Raises Questions

ATLANTA—Philando Castile. Eric Garner. And now Terence Crutcher. Each was a black man killed in a confrontation with an officer, with the aftermath captured on video. And each time, the video leaves the impression of a wounded man left to die alone, with no sense of urgency to try to save him. Law-enforcement experts say […]

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Stop Denying Poor Women Medical Care

Forty years ago this month, Congress passed the Hyde Amendment (named for the late Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde), which bans Medicaid coverage for abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the pregnant woman. In other words, Congress decided to limit health care for women struggling to make ends meet. […]

Exhibit Takes Long View of Native American Health Care

An interactive exhibit installed Thursday at Arizona State’s Hayden Library examines the history, culture and tradition of indigenous medicine to help viewers explore Native American health from a wide-ranging perspective that includes spiritual, social and community well-being. “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness,” on display through late October, looks at the connection […]

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