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Section: Disparities
Disparities
Nursing Homes: Better Care Replaces Alarms
MADISON, Wis. — Alarms no longer go off when a resident shifts in bed or rises from a wheelchair at Oakwood Village Prairie Ridge in Madison. Nurses no longer place fall mats next to beds or lower beds to the floor when residents sleep. The changes, which took effect at the nursing facility in June, […]
July 5, 2016
Disparities
Texas A&M Will Launch Hispanic Health Institute
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas A&M announced the creation of a Hispanic health institute aiming to boost Latino participation in clinical research trials — increasing its footprint in the Rio Grande Valley as rival University of Texas inaugurates a new medical school there. Unveiled at the state Capitol, the program will be the only one of […]
June 29, 2016
Disparities
Agency Will Give Tribes Funds for HIV Prevention
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The federal agency that provides health care to Native Americans will award up to $1 million in grants to tribes and organizations across the country in an effort to improve HIV prevention and care outcomes among tribal populations. The funding from the Indian Health Service will come in the form of […]
June 29, 2016
Disparities
Federal Funds Target Native Americans in Cities
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Health programs serving Native Americans in Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque and Reno, Nevada, are among dozens of non-profits that have been awarded federal Indian Health Service grants. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency says the grants are meant to make healthcare more accessible to Native Americans living in […]
June 29, 2016
Disparities
Garden Plots Fill Need for Healthy Eating
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. — Lee Jennings looked through his office window and over the 3 acres of well-mowed grass and forest land outside. There was always something happening out there: Boy Scout and Girl Scout meetings, camp outs, cookouts. He got to thinking, “It’s land that is just mowed. Why not get more people involved […]
June 29, 2016
Disparities
Medical Students Learning to Curb Opioid Abuse
WORCESTER, Mass. — At first, the woman tried to hide her painkiller problem. She told the doctor that she still had pain from her past pregnancy, and that she just wanted a refill on her pain medication. After a few questions, though, she admitted that a friend had sold her some OxyContin, and that she’d […]
June 29, 2016
Disparities
Ohio Gerontology Center Gets $1.4 Million for Research
OXFORD, Ohio — The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $1.4 million research grant to a university’s gerontology center in southwestern Ohio. Miami University in Oxford says the money awarded to its Scripps Gerontology Center will be used for research on older learners and their ability to complete college programs. The center’s senior research […]
June 27, 2016
Disparities
WVU Gets $1.2 Million to Train Rural Nurses
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University School of Nursing is using a $1.2 million federal grant to train advance practice nursing students. The university says the three-year grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration will be used to implement the “Improving Nursing Scholarship, Practice, Innovation, Research and Education to Care for WV,” or INSPIRE […]
June 27, 2016
Disparities
Camp Offers Options for Speech Deficits
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Bradyn Bennett stepped away from a game of bowling to introduce himself. Using an iPad, the 9-year-old Dixie Bee Elementary third-grader pressed a series of buttons to form a sentence, which an app verbalizes for him. “My name is Bradyn Bennett,” the program’s text-to-speech function announced. The conversation came as Bradyn […]
June 27, 2016
Disparities
Law Exempts Hair Braiders from Licensing and Sanitation Course
DES MOINES, Iowa — Two women challenging Iowa’s regulation on African-style hair braiding plan to drop a lawsuit they filed last year because of an upcoming change in state law, a move that highlights occupational licensing requirements around the country that research show can be burdensome to workers. The lawsuit filed in district court by […]
June 27, 2016
Disparities
Little Sex Ed, Stereotypes Could Lead to Health Risks, Family Planning Issues
Growing up, Jenely Sarette’s Filipino-American family didn’t talk about sex education, and when they did talk about sex, it was more of a warning than anything else. “In Asian-American families, including mine, sex isn’t talked about,” the 27-year-old Sarette told NBC News. “Rather, it’s more about instilling fear about sex. The only sex education I […]
June 23, 2016
Disparities
VA Takes Steps to Prevent Suicides
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. —When he was 6, police caught Kindall Johnson trying to cross Sunshine Street by himself. The Marine-obsessed child had discovered the recruitment office, then located in the Elfindale Center. His mother, Kathy Davis, seemed to enjoy sharing that memory. “One night I’m cooking dinner and there was a knock at the door. It […]
June 22, 2016
Disparities
Delays Push Waiting Patients to Buy Illegal Marijuana
SANTA FE, N.M. — Delays in renewing medical marijuana cards in New Mexico have grown so long that some seriously ill patients are resorting to purchasing marijuana on the black market, according to some patients and advocates. The state Department of Health says the backlog was caused by a surge in demand from new applicants, […]
June 22, 2016
Disparities
1912 O’Neill Drama Relates to Opioid Crisis Today
NEW LONDON, Conn. — Change a few words and dress the characters in modern outfits, and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical masterpiece, could be about any of the dozens of local families today torn apart by opioid addiction. “It’s very relevant,” Jessica Lange, who last week won a Tony […]
June 22, 2016
Disparities
Elderly on Opioids: 1 in 3 Got Them on Medicare
CHICAGO — Nearly 12 million Medicare beneficiaries received at least one prescription for an opioid painkiller last year at a cost of $4.1 billion, according to a federal report that shows how common the addictive drugs are in many older Americans’ medicine cabinets. With an overdose epidemic worsening, nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries received at […]
June 22, 2016
Disparities
House Republicans Present Obamacare Alternatives
WASHINGTON —House Republicans are unveiling new proposals to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health care law, as Speaker Paul Ryan sought to showcase a GOP governing agenda amid the tumult of the presidential campaign. The plan, revealed Wednesday, (June 22) relies on individual tax credits to allow people to buy coverage from private insurers, […]
June 22, 2016
Disparities
For-Profit Medical Schools Offer Hope for Rural Areas
BOISE, Idaho —For-profit medical schools are starting to pop up around the country, promising to create new family doctors for underserved rural regions. Rural states like Idaho need more general practitioners, with the baby boom generation aging and expanded insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act making health care more accessible. But critics of the […]
June 22, 2016
Disparities
Orlando shooting sheds light on mental health disparities in Florida’s Latino community
Fernandez. Guerrero. Martinez. As the names of the victims in the Orlando shooting were announced, it quickly became clear that the traumatic event had disproportionately affected the city’s Latino community. Nearly all 49 victims killed at the Pulse gay nightclub, were Latino. Of those, 23 were Puerto Rican. “With Latinos, the fact that my neighbor’s […]
June 21, 2016
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