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WVU Gets $1.2 Million to Train Rural Nurses

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University School of Nursing is using a $1.2 million federal grant to train advance practice nursing students. The university says the three-year grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration will be used to implement the “Improving Nursing Scholarship, Practice, Innovation, Research and Education to Care for WV,” or INSPIRE […]

Camp Offers Options for Speech Deficits

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Bradyn Bennett stepped away from a game of bowling to introduce himself. Using an iPad, the 9-year-old Dixie Bee Elementary third-grader pressed a series of buttons to form a sentence, which an app verbalizes for him. “My name is Bradyn Bennett,” the program’s text-to-speech function announced. The conversation came as Bradyn […]

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Law Exempts Hair Braiders from Licensing and Sanitation Course

DES MOINES, Iowa — Two women challenging Iowa’s regulation on African-style hair braiding plan to drop a lawsuit they filed last year because of an upcoming change in state law, a move that highlights occupational licensing requirements around the country that research show can be burdensome to workers. The lawsuit filed in district court by […]

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911 Calls for Toilet Needs Reveal Gaps in Home Care

TAMPA, Fla. — Paralyzed from the waist down, Khalid Mahmud spends most of his time in a hospital bed in his living room. For the most part, Mahmud and his wife are able to meet his daily needs. But when the 72-year-old needs to use the portable toilet at his bedside, they summon help. They […]

10 pregnant women in Dallas County tested positive for Zika, health director says

Ten pregnant women in Dallas County have tested positive for the Zika virus, the county’s health director said Tuesday. The women had all traveled to other countries and contracted the virus from mosquitoes abroad, Zachary Thompson told the Dallas County Commissioners Court. No one has contracted Zika from bites in the U.S., but officials are […]

Little Sex Ed, Stereotypes Could Lead to Health Risks, Family Planning Issues

Growing up, Jenely Sarette’s Filipino-American family didn’t talk about sex education, and when they did talk about sex, it was more of a warning than anything else. “In Asian-American families, including mine, sex isn’t talked about,” the 27-year-old Sarette told NBC News. “Rather, it’s more about instilling fear about sex. The only sex education I […]

Unequal Housework Could Be Damaging Women’s Health

We’ve long known that the way couples divide housework can have a serious impact on a woman’s career. For example, in her 2013 book Lean In, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg advises women that unless their partners pitch in with at least 50 percent of the housework and childcare, they may not advance as much as […]

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New For-profit Medical Schools Springing Up Across U.S.

BOISE, Idaho ― For-profit medical schools are starting to pop up around the country, promising to create new family doctors for underserved rural regions. Rural states like Idaho need more general practitioners, with the baby boom generation aging and expanded insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act making health care more accessible. But critics of […]

VA Takes Steps to Prevent Suicides

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. —When he was 6, police caught Kindall Johnson trying to cross Sunshine Street by himself. The Marine-obsessed child had discovered the recruitment office, then located in the Elfindale Center. His mother, Kathy Davis, seemed to enjoy sharing that memory. “One night I’m cooking dinner and there was a knock at the door. It […]

Delays Push Waiting Patients to Buy Illegal Marijuana

SANTA FE, N.M. — Delays in renewing medical marijuana cards in New Mexico have grown so long that some seriously ill patients are resorting to purchasing marijuana on the black market, according to some patients and advocates. The state Department of Health says the backlog was caused by a surge in demand from new applicants, […]

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1912 O’Neill Drama Relates to Opioid Crisis Today

NEW LONDON, Conn. — Change a few words and dress the characters in modern outfits, and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical masterpiece, could be about any of the dozens of local families today torn apart by opioid addiction. “It’s very relevant,” Jessica Lange, who last week won a Tony […]

Elderly on Opioids: 1 in 3 Got Them on Medicare

CHICAGO — Nearly 12 million Medicare beneficiaries received at least one prescription for an opioid painkiller last year at a cost of $4.1 billion, according to a federal report that shows how common the addictive drugs are in many older Americans’ medicine cabinets. With an overdose epidemic worsening, nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries received at […]

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