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Health: Page 261
Nursing
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 […]
Policies
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 […]
Blogs/Opinion
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
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 […]
Policies
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 […]
Policies
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 […]
Policies
Judges Blasts Denial of Medication in Mumia Abu-Jamal Case
PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Pennsylvania has blasted a prison policy that denies former death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal and others an expensive hepatitis C drug until they have advanced liver damage. U.S. District Judge Robert Mariani said the policy amounts to “conscious disregard” for the inmates’ health, but noted that prisons, Medicaid officials and […]
Blogs/Opinion
How Health Systems Can Tackle Disparities
After more than a decade asking why factors such as race, ethnicity, income, gender and sexual orientation often correlate with poorer health and health care quality for so many Americans, perhaps the biggest question is what can health care providers do about it. After more than a decade of asking why factors such as race, […]
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Top Nursing Academics Will Be Honored
Professor Hester Klopper and Professor John Daly will be joining students completing their studies in ceremonies on 2-3 September. Professor Hester Klopper, deputy vice-chancellor of strategic initiatives and internationalisation at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, has an interest in the role nurses play in influencing global health policy and strengthening healthcare systems. Her current research […]
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Shooting Death at Nursing Home Under Investigation
SALEM — State police assigned to the Essex District Attorney’s Office and Salem detectives are investigating the death of an 81-year-old resident of the Grosvenor Park Health Center in Vinnin Square after he reportedly used a handgun to shoot and kill himself on Friday night, according to Salem police Capt. Conrad Prosniewski and Essex District […]
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