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Crack vs. Opiods: Greater Lenience Now for Users

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — When Leola Bivins was first sent away for dealing drugs, she was a 22-year-old high school dropout with a 2-year-old daughter at home. Addiction was the center of the life she knew in East Stroudsburg, where she was born and raised, she recalled recently. Bivins’ mother was a heroin addict — she […]

December 12, 2016

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U of A Studies Cancer in Firefighters

TUCSON, Ariz.— Medical researchers at the University of Arizona’s College of Public Health will use new funding from the federal government to design a long-term study of the causes of cancer in firefighters. The $1.5 million Department of Homeland Security grant announced Wednesday will allow researchers to add firefighters at departments in Boston and southern […]

December 7, 2016

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N.J. Community OKs Medical Marijuana in Schools

RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. — A New Jersey town’s school board has adopted a medical marijuana policy that falls in line with recent legislation signed by Gov. Chris Christie. The Record reported that board members adopted a measureNovember 30 that permits medical marijuana on school grounds in Ridgefield Park. Christie signed a bill into law last […]

December 7, 2016

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Patient’s Suit Alleges Rape at Mental Hospital

HELENA, Mont. — A woman who was criminally committed to Montana State Hospital has sued the state, alleging that she was sexually assaulted and impregnated by another patient at the psychiatric facility. In the lawsuit filed in District Court in Helena, the woman said the hospital failed to supervise her adequately, leading to the rape […]

December 6, 2016

Mobile Clinic Helps Cancer Patients

McALLEN, Texas — Many of the patients who come to Paul Toscano’s free mobile clinic are jobless. Uninsured. Undocumented. Desperate. The Houston Chronicle reports that the physician’s assistant treats so many inside this retrofitted RV that it’s impossible to remember them all. Some he’ll never forget. He closes his eyes and thinks of a woman […]

December 5, 2016

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Campus Events Canceled Because of Mumps

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri has canceled a popular event and is urging student groups to halt others as the number of confirmed and probable mumps cases climbs to 128. University spokesman Christian Basi said Thursday that “for the safety of our students and university community” the school has called off a late […]

December 5, 2016

Ailing Floridians Fear Obamacare Repeal Under Trump

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Sherry Riggs didn’t stay awake to find out who the next president would be. Her heart literally couldn’t take it. Riggs, a 55-year-old barber, has been ordered to avoid stress after a heart attack and bypass surgery last month. Last year, she had a stent put in, paid for by insurance […]

November 30, 2016

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Study of Promising HIV Vaccine Begins

The first HIV vaccine efficacy study to launch anywhere in seven years is now testing whether an experimental vaccine regimen safely prevents HIV infection among South African adults. The study, called HVTN 702, involves a new version of the only HIV vaccine candidate ever shown to provide some protection against the virus. HVTN 702 aims […]

November 30, 2016

Trump Names Top Obamacare Critic to Lead HHS

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump chose a former Goldman Sachs banker and a billionaire investor on Tuesday to steer economic policy in his administration and a fierce Obamacare critic to dismantle President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare program. Republican Trump is expected to name Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs partner and Hollywood financier, as his nominee […]

November 30, 2016

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Congresswoman Wants VA to Cover in Vitro

This week, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., teamed up with U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., and U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., in urging the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to cover veterans whose wounds prevent them from having children by expanding Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) coverage, including In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). The VA hasn’t […]

November 28, 2016

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Evansville Medical Campus Prepares for 2018

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Officials say the medical school campus being built in downtown Evansville by Indiana University and two other schools is on pace for completion in 2018. Indiana University vice president Tom Morrison says steel beams should soon be going up on the four-story building after several months of excavation, utility and foundation work. […]

November 22, 2016

Blood Pressure Program Helps Hundreds in Tribes

Hannah Prairie Chief jumped at the chance to learn more about high blood pressure because several family members struggle with it. She worried about her grandmother, aunts and uncles, and wanted to help them get healthy. “I couldn’t talk about it if I didn’t know about it,” said Prairie Chief, 26, of El Reno, Oklahoma. […]

November 22, 2016

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Dental Hygiene to Prevent Disease Among Wampanoag

Massachusetts’s summer resorts in Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard offer miles of sand and sea, and they are not among the areas of the country that one would think have a dental disparity problem. The Wampanoag Native Americans who are based on the Cape and Vineyard, however, experience a lack of preventive and low-cost restorative […]

November 16, 2016

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S.D. Governor Ditches Medicaid Plan After Talk with Pence

PIERRE, S.D. — Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard says he won’t pursue an expansion of Medicaid in 2017 after a discussion with Vice President-elect Mike Pence. The South Dakota governor said in a statement that his decision is based on a meeting November 14 in which he and Pence talked about the Trump administration’s plans for […]

November 16, 2016

Montana Vote Expands Medical Marijuana

HELENA, Mont.— Montana voters approved an expansion of medical marijuana, one of four citizen initiatives on the ballot, which is the most in any state election since 2010. The other ballot measures asked voters to decide whether to ban trapping on public lands, fund brain research and insert a crime victims’ rights law into the […]

November 14, 2016

OSU Health Systems Celebrates New Location

The Oklahoma State University Center for Health Systems Innovation celebrated the grand opening of its new location on Friday. The center, a joint venture between the OSU Spears School of Business in Stillwater and the OSU Center for Health Sciences, is now housed in the Cyntergy Building at 810 S. Cincinnati Ave. “We are bringing […]

November 14, 2016

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Clinical Pharmacists Provide Veterans Primary Care

Veterans Affairs is now using clinical pharmacists to handle up to one-quarter of primary care appointments to combat wait times at some medical centers. Last year, VA implemented changes that allowed clinical pharmacists to handle primary care for many veterans at select facilities. The push is reportedly in an effort not to increase healthcare quality […]

November 9, 2016

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Food Addict Loses 500 Pounds

INDIALANTIC, Fla. — Fred Riley guesses that he weighed 750 pounds at his heaviest, unhealthiest point. But that’s just an estimate: The scale built into his hospital bed only measured objects up to 700 pounds. The morbidly obese Indiana resident with congestive heart failure spent a decade laying on a jumbo leather recliner, wearing a […]

November 9, 2016