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Insurance Group Owns Clinic
DES MOINES, IOWA — Leaders of a new east-side Des Moines clinic say they can help patients stay healthy while saving money for the insurance company that owns the place. The Des Moines Register reports that the CareMore clinic is the most extensive Iowa example of a new health care model: Health insurance companies that […]
Disparities
Camp Helps Kids Fighting Cancer
GRETNA, Nebraska — A smiling blond-haired boy slid down an inflatable water slide and sprayed Anisa Hoie as he flew by. “That’s great,” Hoie called out to him. “Awesome.” Hoie loves spotting big smiles at Camp CoHoLo, a summer camp for kids with cancer. The camp near Gretna marked its 32nd year this summer and […]
Nursing
Hospital’s First Born Turns 100
DECATUR, Ala. — With her coiffed white hair and red lipstick perfectly matching her sweater and fingernails, Martha Davidson hardly looks like the trailblazer she is. On August 3, the Decatur woman turned 100, a celebration that marked a milestone for Decatur Morgan Hospital. On that date in 1916, Davidson became the first baby born […]
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Zika Crisis Escalates; Lawmakers Go Home
WASHINGTON — As Zika escalates into a public health crisis and the number of mosquito-transmitted cases grows, Republicans and Democrats are pointing fingers over the failure by Congress to commit federal dollars to fight the virus. President Barack Obama on August 4 sought to pressure congressional Republicans over the issue, encouraging voters to “call your […]
Disparities
UN Bungles Yellow Fever Response
KINSHASA, Congo — The World Health Organization and its partners shipped more than 6 million yellow fever vaccines to Angola in February to quash an emerging epidemic, yet when they asked country officials the following month what happened to the vaccines, they discovered that about 1 million doses had mysteriously disappeared. Of the shipments that […]
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Oregon Health & Science University Cultivating Diversity
Oregon Health & Science University is proving that pipeline programs and outreach efforts work.
Blogs/Opinion
Female athlete triad: Protecting the health and bones of active young women
As the 2016 summer Olympics get underway, we will see elite women athletes compete at the highest level of their sports. And as we cruise toward September, many more young women will return to the field, court, and pool on college and high school teams. We know that many women who don’t consider themselves athletes […]
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Black doctors talk about lack of diversity in medical field
Dr. Milton Armstrong still remembers the stares he received more than 20 years ago when he started practicing medicine and would approach patients in his lab coat. “Many of them had never seen a black doctor before, and they were shocked,” Armstrong said during a panel discussion Wednesday at the Medical University of South Carolina. […]
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Tooth loss is a big problem for patients with diabetes – Santa Rosa Technology Time
Fewer cases of diabetes are being diagnosed in U.S. adults, according to startling new federal statistics released Tuesday. Diabetes had been climbing for decades, driven by surging obesity rates. In 2009, the number of new cases reached 1.7 million. By last year, it had dropped to 1.4 million. “After so many years of seeing increases, […]
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Heart disease, stroke risk factors may increase in severity before menopause
DALLAS, August 3, 2016 –The severity of key risk factors for heart disease, diabetes and stroke appears to increase more rapidly in the years leading up to menopause, rather than after, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. The study […]
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Professor Looks at What Type of Exercise Benefits Academics
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. ― A West Virginia University professor has been researching which types of exercise are effective in improving academic performance. The university said in a news release that Assistant Dean James C. Hannon of the College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences says resistance exercise such as weight lifting and using resistance bands seems […]
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5 Ways that Educators Can Help Young Women Succeed in STEM Fields
Success in these fields has a lot to do with the environment that a female student lives in and their overall motivation to succeed in the field.
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