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A Major Shortage Of End-Of-Life Doctors Is Coming

A declining number of physicians specialized in palliative care looms and won’t recover for 25 years without major U.S. health policy changes, new research in the June issue of Health Affairs shows. Research led by Dr. Arif Kamal at Duke University shows about one-third of palliative care clinicians are burned out and about two in five are 56 […]

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Fitchburg State Signs Nursing Degree Agreements With Community Colleges

Fitchburg State University has signed nursing-degree agreements with community colleges in Worcester, Gardner, Bedford and Fall River. The agreements, which the university announced Monday, guarantee students a spot at Fitchburg State’s bachelor’s nursing program and is aimed at helping ensure more of the state’s nurses have bachelor’s degrees in the coming years. Read More

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Florida’s Universities Get Creative to Meet Demand For New Nurses

With more rehabilitation facilities, urgent cares, walk-in medical clinics and outpatient facilities, it is easier than ever to get medical treatment outside of a hospital or doctor’s office. But will there be enough nurses to provide proper care? Amid a potential nursing shortage that threatens Florida’s healthcare system, the state’s universities and colleges are devising […]

College Student Wellness and Mental Health Are Growing Global Issues

Measles outbreaks across the United States have put a spotlight on student health, which already has taken on a heightened sense of urgency on college campuses worldwide as schools address increasing mental health issues and related problems among degree-seekers.

Experts Probe Critical Issues of Student Health and Education

Health and education have a major impact on each other, and collaborations at all levels involving families, schools, policymakers and other stakeholders are essential to improving outcomes in both areas for students – especially those from low-income, rural and other under-served populations, speakers said at an event Tuesday co-sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Healthy Schools Campaign.

Carthage Honors First Class of Nursing Students

Carthage College honored a group of pioneers with a symbolic ceremony on Saturday. The school’s inaugural graduating class of nursing students received the school’s first nursing pins in front of college officials, local health-care professionals and proud family and friends at the Todd Wehr Center. The 13 seniors receiving their pins will graduate today with […]

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Guest Commentary: High School Education Explains Our Shortage of Health Care Providers

Like a lot of teens then and now, I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I was in high school. Fortunately, I figured it out quickly in college — getting my undergraduate degree in exercise physiology and a master’s in education that set me up to work as a health and PE teacher […]

University of Dubuque Unveils Plans For New Health Center

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KWWL) – College students across the country are struggling to find access to adequate healthcare. Now, the University of Dubuque is hoping to change that for their students. Plans and sketches for a $1.1 million health care center were revealed on Tuesday. It would be the first center on the University of Dubuque’s […]

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Students From The Medical College of Wisconsin Open a New Free Mental Health Clinic

GREEN BAY (WLUK) — A new resource is now available for those struggling with mental illness in Northeast Wisconsin. “This is really important. There’s actually a shortage of psychiatrists around the country, but especially in Wisconsin,” said Nicole Petcka from the Medical College of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Read More

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College Students Work to Boost Access to Morning After Pill

WASHINGTON (AP) — The calls and text messages arrive directly to Michyah Thomas’s iPhone. They come from other students at Hampton University in need of the morning-after pill or in search of a ride to a health center or a hand to hold. They reach Thomas, a 21-year-old at Hampton, through a hotline she and […]

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Emory University Fires 2 Neuroscientists Accused of Hiding Chinese Ties

Emory University fired two neuroscientists after they were accused of failing to disclose foreign research funding and connections with China. Li Xiao-Jiang told Science magazine that the university fired him and his wife, Li Shihua––with whom he led a laboratory at the Atlanta university’s medical school. The university also shut down their laboratory. Four Chinese postdoctoral students working […]

CEO From University of Maryland Medical System’s Capital Region to Step Down

The president and chief executive of the University of Maryland Medical System’s troubled Capital Region Health plans to step down from the post early next month. Sherry B. Perkins plans to leave for a health care position in Delaware, according to a statement from the system, which serves Prince George’s County and the surrounding area. […]

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