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Colleges Push Viral Testing, Other Ideas for Reopening in Fall. But Some Worry About Deepening the Health Crisis.

One afternoon this week, Celeste Torres, a sociology student at the University of California at San Diego, stopped by a self-serve testing station to perform a five-minute ritual that could hold the key to reopening college campuses nationwide amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Torres, who’s 27 and identifies with gender-neutral pronouns, used a cellphone to scan a […]

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Faculty Open Up About Mental Health Under the COVID-19 Pandemic

Michelle O’Malley and Matthew Helgeson, chemical engineering faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, are still adjusting to life under the coronavirus pandemic. For the married professors, this means running their respective research groups from home while also taking care of their almost-3-year-old son. Elliott, like most preschoolers, needs constant attention. Except during nap time. […]

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Schools Weigh Options for Fall Amid Uncertainty Surrounding Coronavirus

After varying amounts of struggle, higher ed institutions across the country moved online for the spring semester in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But now the question is, what’s next?

Trans Postdoc Claims Psychiatrists Were Biased Against Him

“It was one of the first graduations Ron Daniels was at. I got to shake his hand. Underneath the cap and gown, I was wearing a dress. At another graduation, I was wearing a shirt and tie. It felt full circle. At Hopkins, I had gotten a bachelor’s degree and a PhD — and a […]

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UC San Diego to Start Mass Testing of Staff and Students for COVID-19

The University of California San Diego will next week begin mass testing of students, faculty and staff for COVID-19 under a ‘Return to Learn’ program the institution hopes to extend to the fall if it reopens as planned, it said in a statement. CBS 8 called the program the first such plan on campus in […]

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14 Women of Color Medical Students and Graduates Who Matched Share on Soon Joining the Frontlines Amid COVID-19

This year March 20, 2020, marked the National Resident Matching Program’s annual day where thousands of medical students and graduates (44,959) from across the U.S. and around the world learned the U.S. residency programs that they would have the opportunity to train at for the next three to seven years. However, as the students and graduates would […]

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Opinion: UNR School of Medicine’s Dean on the Role a Medical School Plays in a Pandemic

The Washoe County Health District reported its first presumptive positive case of COVID-19 on March 5, 2020. What’s transpired since has presented extraordinary challenges to Northern Nevada, our state and all who live and work here. The University of Nevada Reno, School of Medicine (UNR Med) has a special, perhaps unique, role to play in […]

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In Reversal, Arizona Announces ‘Ongoing Partnership’ With University Coronavirus Modeling Experts

The Arizona Department of Health Services said on Thursday that it will have an “ongoing partnership” with the university experts who were producing COVID-19 modeling before being told on Monday by the department to “pause” their work. The abrupt turn comes after pressure from Democratic lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, and local and national media attention. […]

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University of Michigan Health System Lays Off 1,400 Health Care Workers

Michigan Medicine will lay off or furlough 1,400 health care workers to cope with $230 million in lost revenue during the COVID-19 crisis, the University of Michigan health system said Tuesday. The losses projected through the fiscal year that ends on June 30 are expected to continue into 2021, the health system said in a press […]

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Study Finds Fewer Minority Nurses Come From Michigan Nursing Programs

LANSING — Colleges and university nursing programs in Michigan produce fewer minority graduates than those in many other states, according to a study by the Women’s Institute for Science, Equity and Race. No Michigan programs made the top-50 lists for minority nursing graduates overall or for African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans and Native Americans. Programs […]

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The Coronavirus Crisis Confirms That the U.S. Health Care System Fails Women

The coronavirus pandemic has affected everyone’s lives in numerous ways, but people have and will continue to experience these challenges differently. Pandemics worsen existing gender inequities both domestically and abroad—and this one is no different. While early estimates indicate that men are more likely to test positive for the virus, there is insufficient data to determine […]

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D.C. to Financially Support Howard University’s New Teaching Hospital

Howard University and the Washington D.C. Mayor’s office last week announced a partnership under which the district will financially support a new teaching hospital at the university, toward the larger goal of building a citywide healthcare network that will serve residents in all communities. The district is going to provide Howard and a partner a […]

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