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Wellmark Withdraws $15 Million Grant to University of Iowa Over Naming Dispute

IOWA CITY, Iowa Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield has withdrawn its offer of a $15 million donation to the University of Iowa after school faculty rejected a proposal to rename its health college after Wellmark.

Arrest Highlights Rx Drug Abuse Among Youth, College Students

CHICAGO Drug abuse experts say the arrest of Al Gore’s son underscores the growing problem of prescription drug abuse among America’s youth. College students use the stimulant Adderall, an attention deficit drug, to get a speedy high or pull all-nighters.

Exec Linked to Va. Tech Shooter Quits

BLACKSBURG Va. The executive director of a mental health agency that had a role in treatment for the Virginia Tech student who killed 32 people and himself has quit after a year in the position.

Universities help pay salaries of Richardson appointees

ALBUQUERQUE Two New Mexico universities are helping foot the bill of Gov. Bill Richardson appointees, and the arrangement has some concerned about potential conflicts of interest.

Hillary Clinton awarded honorary doctorate in Sweden

STOCKHOLM Sweden Hillary Rodham Clinton has been awarded an honorary doctorate of medicine at Sweden’s Goteborg University for her efforts to improve health care in the United States, officials said Thursday.

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UI, Wellmark talk about naming public health college

IOWA CITY Iowa The University of Iowa and Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield are talking about a major gift for naming the university’s new College of Public Health building.

Police probe whether University of Chicago hospital patients got insulin overdoses

CHICAGO University of Chicago Medical Center and police are investigating whether three patients, including two who died, were somehow given insulin overdoses, officials said.

Ohio Governor Signs Budget Plan Freezing College Tuition for Two Years

COLUMBUS Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland took his first budget to the final day, signing the $52 billion spending plan just hours before the fiscal year ended Saturday, and after making good on his threat to veto a tax-funded voucher program to allow special-needs students to attend private schools.

OU’s medical campus to expand

OKLAHOMA CITY A master plan for the Oklahoma Health Center in Oklahoma City indicates the University of Oklahoma plans to expand one of the state’s largest medical campuses.

HBCUs, Black Voters Figure Prominently In 2008 Presidential Race

There’s consensus among political experts that the location, moderator and audience at last week’s Democratic presidential debate, held at Howard University, forced candidates to discuss solutions to issues concerning Blacks and other minority voters. A second forum for candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination will be broadcast by PBS in September from another historically Black campus, Morgan State University in Baltimore.

UMC’s Jones to serve as president of American Heart Association

JACKSON Miss. Dr. Daniel W. Jones, vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, will take over as president of the American Heart Association on July 1.

Tuskegee grad finds comedy overcomes adversity

MONTGOMERY Ala. Darryl Moore’s fellow humorists call him the “Meanest Comic in the World.”

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