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A Dangerous Delay

It had been six days since Olivia Shea Paregol walked out of the University of Maryland health center without an answer for why she felt so awful. Now, the 18-year-old freshman was curled up in the fetal position on the floor of her dorm room at Elkton Hall in College Park, her brown hair resting […]

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Auburn University Nursing Researchers Use Therapy Dogs to Assist Dementia Patients

Researchers in the Auburn University School of Nursing found animal-assisted therapy promotes social engagement among adults with dementia or other cognitive impairments. Assistant Professor Morgan Yordy and Associate Clinical Professor Stuart Pope studied the possible benefits with the school’s therapy dogs — Miller, Choa and Daisy — at a community respite ministry at Auburn United Methodist Church. REACH, […]

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Women at Two Va. Universities Wanted More Access to The Morning-After Pill. So They Took ‘Matters Into Their Own Hands.’

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 another student, Alexandria […]

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College Students Face Unique Mental Health Challenges

When Mary Rose Bernal sought help for her eating disorder during her first year of college in Iowa, she said she felt like she had to educate her Iowa providers “who should have known better.” Bernal, 21, originally from San Jose, California, and a spring 2019 graduate of Grinnell College, has struggled with an eating […]

Talya Schwartz, MD, Appointed President and CEO of MetroPlus Health Plan

The Board of MetroPlus Health Plan today announced the appointment of Talya Schwartz, MD, as the health plan’s President and CEO. MetroPlus is the low-cost, five-star quality health insurance plan of choice for more than 500,000 New Yorkers. As the health plan owned by NYC Health + Hospitals, MetroPlus is a vital component of Mayor […]

Northwest Kidney Centers CEO Joyce F. Jackson to Retire

Joyce F. Jackson, president and CEO of Northwest Kidney Centers for the past 20 years, has announced she will retire from her position after a successor is found. Jackson informed the Northwest Kidney Centers board of trustees last year of her intention to retire. The board has engaged a national firm to conduct a search for the […]

Controversy Lingers Around Pregnancy Centers Near Campus

A handful of student protestors lined the sidewalk in front of First Care Pregnancy Center in Prospect Park in late April. One of their signs proclaimed that the clinic behind them was a “fake center.” The University of Minnesota students turned out to caution others against visiting pregnancy centers they view as illegitimate. Not all […]

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America Needs More Mental Health Providers. Nurses Want to Help, if States Let Them.

More than half of American adults and 80 percent of children with mental-health needs do not receive treatment, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s mental-health website. Some don’t want to seek care and the cost of treatment is a barrier for others. But even those with resources who want care are running into a […]

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Assumption College Breaks Ground on New $13 Million Health Sciences Building

WORCESTER – Assumption College on Friday broke ground on a new health sciences building, the campus’ second new building in three years and a reflection of the school’s recent expansion toward STEM-based programming. The 41,000-square-foot facility, which will be built behind the campus’ Emmanuel d’Alzon Library, is expected to cost $13 million and open in […]

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Despite Efforts to Boost Their Numbers, Blacks Account For Just 6% of Doctors in SC

Kelsey Williams is one of 103 students in the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville’s Class of 2020. But she’s one of just five who is Black. Nationally, African Americans make up 13.4 percent of the population, according to the U.S. Census. In South Carolina, they are 27.3 percent. Yet they only make up about […]

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College Receives $7 Million Gift For Global Health Equity Program

The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Geisel School of Medicine recently received a $7 million gift from a combination of four anonymous families. This donation, part of the College’s ongoing Call to Lead capital campaign, will support faculty development and expand student global health equity programs domestically and internationally in partner […]

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University of Holy Cross, LCMC Health Team up to Launch Physician Assistant Program

The University of Holy Cross has partnered with LCMC Health to launch a new Master of Science graduate degree for physician assistants. The inaugural program will launch in Fall 2020 and will include on-the-job training for UHC students by doctors and other medical professionals at three of LCMC Health’s five hospitals in and around New Orleans, according to […]

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