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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 […]
Disparities
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 […]
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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 […]
Students
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 […]
Disparities
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 […]
Disparities
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, […]
Disparities
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 […]
Disparities
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 […]
Disparities
House Republicans Present Obamacare Alternatives
WASHINGTON —House Republicans are unveiling new proposals to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health care law, as Speaker Paul Ryan sought to showcase a GOP governing agenda amid the tumult of the presidential campaign. The plan, revealed Wednesday, (June 22) relies on individual tax credits to allow people to buy coverage from private insurers, […]
Disparities
For-Profit Medical Schools Offer Hope for Rural Areas
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 the […]
Disparities
Orlando shooting sheds light on mental health disparities in Florida’s Latino community
Fernandez. Guerrero. Martinez. As the names of the victims in the Orlando shooting were announced, it quickly became clear that the traumatic event had disproportionately affected the city’s Latino community. Nearly all 49 victims killed at the Pulse gay nightclub, were Latino. Of those, 23 were Puerto Rican. “With Latinos, the fact that my neighbor’s […]
Blogs/Opinion
Breastfeeding as a trans dad: ‘A baby doesn’t know what your pronouns are’
Giving birth to two children as a transgender man gave Trevor MacDonald rare insight into the manifold struggles of trans individuals – and in blogging about it he became the public voice of a long hidden conversation. MacDonald, soft-spoken and sporting a wispy goatee, was breastfeeding his first child at the time. He and his […]
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