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Indiana Teen’s Racial Disparities Project Is a $10,000 Winner

CROWN POINT — A Crown Point teen is the only student in Indiana among a prestigious group of teenagers across the country to be named a 2016 Davidson Fellow, which netted her a $10,000 scholarship. Justine Izah, who will be 18 on Wednesday, won a Davidson Fellows Scholarship for her project, “An Examination of Black […]

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Panel: Screening for Kids in Montana Could Prevent Suicides

HELENA, Mont. —A panel seeking ways to fix Montana’s highest-in-the-nation suicide rate is recommending mandatory depression screening of all schoolchildren beginning at age 11 and programs teaching coping skills to kids as young as 6. Preventing suicide and lifting the stigma of depression is a slow process that will require a cultural shift that begins […]

Med Student Learns With Team That Treated Him

ST. LOUIS —Luke Weaver knew from a very young age he wanted to be a doctor. He just didn’t realize how much experience he would have with hospitals before ever reaching medical school. When the Belleville native was 15 years old, he started feeling very sick. Initially, doctors thought he had a sinus infection or […]

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Officials: Utah Health Plans Affordable Despite Increases

SALT LAKE CITY — As consumers in Utah and around the country are expected to see higher health insurance premiums and fewer choices next year under President Barack Obama’s health law, the White House says rates will still be relatively inexpensive for most Utah consumers. If rates for all health plans available on the federally […]

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Canada’s Switched-At-Birth Case Raises Questions

WINNIPEG, Manitoba— The Canadian government is setting up an independent investigation after DNA evidence indicated two men from a northern Manitoba indigenous community were switched at birth. David Tait Jr. was born three days after Leon Swanson in the winter of 1975 at the Norway House Indian Hospital in the western Canadian province. For years, […]

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Medical School Diversity Means Better Health Care Later

American medical schools are suffering from a severe case of economic and racial homogeneity, which is fueling physician shortages in vulnerable communities. Doctors are most likely to work in areas that share their demographics. White medical students from wealthy backgrounds tend to return to well-off, predominantly white locales to practice. Conversely, communities that produce few […]

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NIH Research Project Address Health Disparities

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health, is launching the Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers (TCC) for Health Disparities Research on Chronic Disease Prevention program. This program responds to the need for more robust, ecological approaches to address chronic diseases among racial and ethnic minority groups, under-served […]

ADHD is Often Missed in Children of Color

While a higher percentage of black children show the symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than white kids, they are less likely to be diagnosed or treated for the disorder, researchers report. The new study showed a similar trend when it came to Hispanic children: They were as likely as their white peers to exhibit the […]

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Grants Will Help Remove Lead in East Chicago Soil

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. — The state of Indiana is providing $200,000 to the city of East Chicago to help families living at a public housing complex where soil is tainted with elevated levels of lead and arsenic. The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority says its board approved the allocation of $100,000 to the East […]

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Brain Injuries Overlooked in Domestic Assaults

CHICAGO— There are no bomb blasts or collisions with burly linemen in Susan Contreras’ past. Her headaches, memory loss and bouts of confused thinking were a mystery until doctors suggested a probable cause: domestic violence. A former partner repeatedly beat her, she says. “He would hit me mainly in the head so that nobody would […]

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Florida Teen Survives Killer Brain Amoeba

ORLANDO, Fla. —A South Florida boy has survived a rare brain-eating amoeba that kills most people, aided in part because a hard-to-get drug to fight the infection is made by a company based in Orlando where he was hospitalized, doctors said. Sebastian DeLeon came to the hospital two weeks ago with sensitivity to light and […]

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Blacks in Texas Face Highest Risk of Maternal Death

HOUSTON — Black women face the greatest risk for pregnancy-related death in Texas, according to a new report. The report released last week found that cardiac events, overdose by legal or illegal prescription drugs, and high blood pressure disorders are the leading causes of maternal death. “This confirms what we feared — that many of […]

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