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Health Researchers Hone In on Sexual and Gender Minority Issues

The National Institutes of Health, motivated by a shift in research literature looking at health issues faced by people not then represented in LGBT language, created an office dedicated specifically to SGM health issues.

Farting: Seven Surprising And Spectacular Health Benefits

These days, it seems to me that people are coy about absolutely everything. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the appeal of maintaining an air of mystery. Still, sometimes you just have to square your shoulders and call a spade a spade. I think this is especially true when it comes to information on leading […]

Number of people with health insurance via jobs remained steady with Obamacare

Obamacare still hasn’t led to drops in the numbers of people who get health coverage through their jobs, despite some earlier fears that would happen, according to a new survey released Wednesday. The percentage of companies offering health insurance to their workers and families and the percentage of acceptance of such offers both have remained […]

Congress Approves Bill To Address Addiction As A Health Problem

The Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill intended to change the way police and health care workers treat people struggling with opioid addictions. The bill, which had previously passed the House, will now be sent to President Obama. He has indicated that he will sign it, despite concerns that it doesn’t provide enough funding. […]

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Trump’s Mocking of Disabled Is Fodder for Ads

WASHINGTON — Here’s Grace, a sweetly smiling little girl in a wheelchair. Now here’s her mother, Lauren Glaros: “When I saw Donald Trump mock a disabled person, I was just shocked,“ she says. Then we see Trump, his hands jerking in front of his body as he imitates a reporter who has a condition that […]

Donald Trump Campaigns In San Jose

Obama: Inaction on Zika Will Delay Vaccine

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has cautioned top lawmakers that continued gridlock over legislation to combat the Zika virus could delay research and development of a vaccine to protect against Zika and tests to detect it. The warning came in a letter July 12 from White House budget chief Shaun Donovan and Health and Human […]

Rural Clinic Provides Care to Underserved

SILVER CITY, N.M. — Beatrice Resendiz grew up in this small town of miners, artists and college students near the Gila National Forest. A diabetic, she set aside her own needs to work, care for her four granddaughters and help minister to her mother, who had Alzheimer’s disease. Only when Resendiz ended up in the […]

Congress Probes Indian Health Service

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Members of Congress are questioning the longstanding staffing and management shortcomings that have led to poor health care services at government-run facilities caring for Native Americans across the country. The hearing July 12 in Washington of the House subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs focused on proposed legislation that […]

Maine Residency Program Promotes Preventative Health

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine Medical Center is leaning on the power of plants to grow a crop the state could always use more of — doctors. A new preventive medicine residency program at the hospital hopes to build up the number of doctors in the state who are dedicated to helping Mainers avoid disease through […]

Hospital and IHS Partner Against Cancer

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Roswell Park Cancer Institute is part of a new collaboration targeting cancer in Native American and Alaska Native communities. The Buffalo hospital will work with the Indian Health Service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under an agreement that focuses on cancer prevention and research. Roswell Park researcher […]

Mental Health And Latinos After Orlando

Weeks after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando on June 12, where 96% of victims and most survivors were Hispanics, the issue of mental health has taken center stage as one of the most pressing community concerns. “The perception amongst Hispanics is that people who need mental health services are ‘locos’ or insane,” states Denisse […]

Texas Accused of Ignoring Mentally Disabled in Nursing Homes

It took more than 40 years for Leonard Barefield to finally get to choose where he lived. The intellectually-disabled Texas native moved to a group home in Lubbock in September after he had first lived in near slavery conditions for more than three decades in a squalid house in Iowa and worked at a turkey […]

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