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Maryland Lawmakers Seek Diversity in Medical Marijuana Industry

Black Maryland state lawmakers are planning to propose emergency legislation to address the dearth of minority-owned businesses approved to grow medical marijuana in the state and may demand scrapping the results of a nine-month application process and starting over. Del. Cheryl D. Glenn (D-Baltimore) announced the plans at a Friday meeting of the Legislative Black […]

Ohio Medical Marijuana Law Takes Effect

COLUMBUS, Ohio —Ohio has yet to outline how exactly its new medical marijuana law will work even as it took effect September 8, leaving a host of unanswered questions by doctors, patients, pharmacists, police and many others. Rules for producing, prescribing and distributing cannabis to eligible patients are expected to take up to a year […]

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$25 Million Donation Could Clear Path for New Dental School

EL PASO, Texas—El Paso could be getting a dental school. The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso has announced a $25 million donation for the Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine. Officials say the contribution from the Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Foundation will support the first new dental school in Texas […]

Home Repairs and Checkups Help Seniors Age in Place

WASHINGTON — Where you live plays a big role in staying independent as you age. Now researchers say an innovative program that combined home fix-ups and visits from occupational therapists and nurses improved low-income seniors’ ability to care for themselves in their own homes. Still to be answered is whether that better daily functioning also […]

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School Nurse Tends to Student After Shooting

PITTSBURGH — A 17-year-old student was wounded in a shooting across the street from a high school Thursday and was treated by the school nurse until paramedics arrived. Police and emergency crews were called to Perry Traditional Academy, also known as Pittsburgh Perry High School, just before 8 a.m. The principal and staffers were responding […]

House Panel Subpoenas VA over Denver Hospital Costs

WASHINGTON — Demanding explanations for a $1 billion cost overrun, a House panel has issued a subpoena to the Department of Veterans Affairs for documents on how the cost of a Denver-area VA hospital ballooned to almost $1.7 billion. That figure was nearly triple earlier estimates. The subpoena by the House Veterans Affairs Committee also […]

Head Injuries — Time for Dale Earnhardt Jr. to Walk Away

Long ago, you escaped the enormous shadow of your father. Lately, you’ve ensured an important legacy all your own by raising a caution flag on head injuries in NASCAR. Now, it’s time to seriously consider walking away. For good. Earnhardt is already sitting out the rest of 2016 to deal with the lingering effects of […]

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Report on Sickle Cell Disease Suggests Treatment and Care is Inadequate

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited, lifelong chronic disorder affecting nearly 100,000 Americans and a growing global health problem that will touch nearly 30 percent more people globally in the next three decades. Though new approaches to managing SCD have led to improvements in diagnosis and supportive care, people living with the disease still […]

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Study: Broad Health Disparities Found in Kentucky

Local medical professionals believe that results of a 2011-13 study, the latest data available, by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky are different now because of progress made under the Affordable Care Act. “Health Disparities in the Commonwealth, A Report on Race and Ethnicity and Health in Kentucky” revealed that multiracial and black Kentuckians tend […]

Nursing Scholarship Honors Murdered Nuns

COLUMBUS, Miss. Mississippi University for Women is creating a scholarship to honor two slain nuns who worked as nurse practitioners in one of the poorest parts of the nation. The Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill Graduate Nursing Scholarship will be given to a graduate nursing student who works in an underserved area or […]

Connecticut Medical Insurances Rates Will Climb

HARTFORD, Conn. — Tens of thousands of Connecticut health insurance consumers will still see double-digit increases in their 2017 rates, even though the state’s Department of Insurance has denied some rate requests filed by health insurers, while reducing others. The agency said Friday the rates reflect rising medical costs and elimination of the federal payments […]

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Cuba Reports Success in Controlling Zika Virus

HAVANA — Six months after President Raul Castro declared war on the Zika virus in Cuba, a militarized nationwide campaign of intensive mosquito spraying, monitoring and quarantine appears to be working. Cuba is among the few countries in the Western Hemisphere that have so far prevented significant spread of the disease blamed for birth defects […]

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