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2 Cases of Legionnaires’ Possibly Linked to University of Chicago Hospital

For the second time in a week, state health officials said Chicago hospital patients had been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease. The Illinois Department of Public Health has identified two new cases of the potentially-deadly lung infection, which is contracted by inhaling aerosolized water containing the Legionella bacteria. Read More

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Gov. Greg Abbott Signs Bill Creating University of Houston Medical School

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill creating a medical school at the University of Houston amid concerns about a physician shortage in the state. Under the legislation signed into law Wednesday, the University of Houston’s College of Medicine will be the 13th medical school in Texas. It will be based in the UH System’s flagship […]

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Johns Hopkins University to Open New Center That Focuses on School Safety And Health

The Johns Hopkins University announced Monday that it will create a new interdisciplinary center for school safety and health, the first in the nation in higher education. The center, announced at a conference of Education Writers Association being held this week in Baltimore, will bring together more than two dozen faculty from disciplines as diverse as education […]

UAB Awards $2.7 Million to Improve Health Rankings by 2030

An employee at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and her team received millions of dollars in awards from the university last week for her campaign aimed at making Alabama a healthier state by 2030. Mona Fouad, director of the UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center, and her project “Healthy Alabama 2030: Live […]

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Brown University Launches Research on HIV in PH, Other Health Issues

A team of faculty and student scholars from the Brown University School of Public Health launched a new initiative to centralize research focused on improving health outcomes among Filipinos and Filipino Americans. The Philippine Health Initiative for Research, Service and Training will bring together the work of researchers from across the School of Public Health […]

University of Maryland Medical Center Seeks 5 Percent Rate Hike Amid Contracts Scandal

As the University of Maryland Medical System faces fallout from a scandal involving lucrative contracts awarded to its board members, including Catherine Pugh, who has since resigned from the board and as Baltimore’s mayor, the system’s flagship hospital has made a move to charge its patients more. The University of Maryland Medical Center asked state […]

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Don’t Sleep on Sleep

Sleep is one of those things in life that we all need yet most of us don’t get enough of. We are generally aware of the importance of sleep in the recovery of our bodies and minds and know we should be better about getting more sleep, but rarely do.

College Updates Medical Leave of Absence Policy to Aid Students Who Struggle With Mental Health Issues

The college recently revised its policy for students who require a leave of absence. The revised policy allows students who encounter medical problems to take a leave with greater leeway. The Jed Foundation, a non-profit mental health group, evaluated the college’s mental health services and recommended that the college institute a change to the existing […]

Medical College Gets Nod For School Land

The Arkansas Colleges of Health Education received a recommendation by the Fort Chaffee Real Estate Review Committee on Thursday for about 70 acres of land that had been previously donated to Fort Smith Public Schools. In addition to offering a higher bid, ACHE President Kyle Parker also crafted a proposal for the land around continued […]

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Hundreds of Students And Staff From Two L.A. Universities Remain Quarantined Amid Measles Scare

Hundreds of students, staff and faculty at two Los Angeles universities have been quarantined because they may have been exposed to measles, according to Los Angeles County health officials, the latest development in a resurgence of the highly contagious disease that was declared eliminated in 2000. Officials at California State University at Los Angeles alerted […]

Clinic Run by Nurses Opens at Augusta University

Augusta University President Brooks Keel walked past the ribbon and up to College of Nursing Dean Lucy Marion. “You’ve been looking forward to this for a few days?” he said jokingly. “A few decades?” Try 15 years. But on Friday, Keel, Marion and others cut the ribbon on the school’s Nurse-Managed Health Center, a dream […]

A Rush For Nurses Strains Colleges And Hospitals as Health Care Booms in Pittsburgh

After 19 hours on a plane, Sandra Ajao fought off jet lag as she faced flashing neon lights, booming music and the crash of bowling pins on a recent weekday afternoon in Harmar. Inside a mostly vacant Zone 28 family fun center, dozens of people congregated around several lanes and a counter stacked with pizzas and […]

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