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N.M. Dems Push Assisted Suicide Plan

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Democrats are pushing a proposal that would allow terminally ill patients in New Mexico to end their lives with help from doctors. The measure — opposed by the Catholic Church and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez — would prevent New Mexico doctors from facing prosecution in such cases. In June, the New […]

March 21, 2017

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Disabled Children Will Get Special Park

DUBUQUE, Iowa— Dubuque officials have approved plans for an all-inclusive field at a city park, supporting an effort to build a leveled, rubberized surface that could be used by children who have disabilities. Volunteers plan to raise $3.5 million in private donations for the project at Veterans Memorial Park, The Telegraph Herald reported. “This is […]

March 21, 2017

VA Psychiatrist Charged with $198K Fraud

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Federal prosecutors say a psychiatrist at a Veterans Affairs hospital in western New York bilked a health care provider out of nearly $200,000 by charging for private services he didn’t provide. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Rochester says 52-year-old Dr. Xingjia Cui, of Pittsford, has been charged with health care fraud, money […]

March 15, 2017

Australia Weighs Banning Unvaccinated from Childcare

Unvaccinated children would be banned from childcare centres and preschools under an Australian government plan. Some Australian states already have “no jab, no play” laws, but PM Malcolm Turnbull is calling for nationwide legislation. Health groups have supported the push, arguing parents and the community have an obligation to protect children. An Australian Child Health […]

March 15, 2017

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GOP Scrambles After CBO Report

House Republican leaders plunged into damage control mode Monday after a brutal budgetary assessment of their Obamacare replacement threatened to upend Senate GOP support and armed their critics on the left. Speaker Paul Ryan’s team quickly pinpointed rosier elements of the report by the Congressional Budget Office, from cost savings to lower premiums. But the […]

March 15, 2017

Colorado Moves to Limit Home-Grown Marijuana

DENVER — Colorado is moving toward limiting growing marijuana at home under a bill that sets a max of 12 plants per residential property. A House committee voted 11-2 on March 6 to curb the nation’s most generous allowances for growing pot at home. Colorado currently allows medical pot patients to grow up to 99 […]

March 13, 2017

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Idaho House to Consider Abortion Law Repeals

BOISE, Idaho — A proposal to reverse two anti-abortion laws in Idaho was headed to the House floor for debate after being approved at the committee level by lawmakers hesitant to loosen the state’s tough anti-abortion stance. Earlier this year, a federal judge agreed to give the Idaho Legislature time to repeal two laws passed […]

March 13, 2017

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Man Awarded $2.5M from VA Hospital

PHOENIX — A judge awarded $2.5 million to a military veteran who said that his now-terminal cancer would have been curable had the Veterans Administration hospital in Phoenix diagnosed it sooner. U.S. Magistrate Judge Michelle Burns ruled on March 6 that a nurse practitioner who found abnormalities in Steven Harold Cooper’s prostate during an examination […]

March 13, 2017

Trump Voters Stand the Most to Lose in Repeal

Americans who swept President Trump to victory — lower-income, older voters in conservative, rural parts of the country — stand to lose the most in federal healthcare aid under a Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, according to a Times analysis of county voting and tax credit data. Among those hit […]

March 13, 2017

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Sam’s Club Offers Health Screenings to Members

Sam’s Club is partnering with digital health kiosk company higi to bring self-service screenings to 622 Sam’s Club locations nationwide that have pharmacies, MobiHealthNews reports. The screening stations — free to Sam’s Club members — allow users to check their pulse, blood pressure, weight and body mass index, and track and share information over time […]

March 8, 2017

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Refugee Ban Hurts Underserved Areas

In early 2001, an Iranian family fled their home and landed in Texas as political refugees. The mother, who went to medical school in Iran, passed her boards in the US and now works as a psychiatrist; she largely serves children in poverty. Her son, just 15 when they moved here, is now in his […]

March 8, 2017

HHS Head Vows Protection for Medicare

HHS Secretary Tom Price said during an interview with CBS Face the Nation that the Trump administration “believes in the guarantee of Medicare for our seniors.” President Donald Trump indicated during a recent address to Congress that his administration did not have interest in making changes to Medicare. Read More

March 8, 2017

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UK Plans Med School in Northern Part of State

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The University of Kentucky has announced plans for a third regional medical school, with the latest campus to be in the northern part of the state. UK said in a statement that it has partnered with Northern Kentucky University and St. Elizabeth Healthcare to develop a campus where students will receive a […]

March 6, 2017

Temperature Extremes in Pregnancy Increase Risk

Extreme hot or cold temperatures during pregnancy may increase the risk that infants born at term will be of low birth weight, according to a study of U.S. women by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. The study was published in Environmental Research. The authors found that exposure to atypically cold temperature during the […]

March 6, 2017

First Native American Doctor Lived Inspiring Life

When 21-year-old Susan La Flesche first stepped off the train in Philadelphia in early October 1886, nearly 1,300 miles from her Missouri River homeland, she’d already far surpassed the country’s wildest expectations for a member of the so-called “vanishing race.” Born during the Omaha’s summer buffalo hunt in June 1865 in the northeast corner of […]

March 6, 2017

Facebook Post on VA Conditions Goes Viral

DURHAM, N.C.—A former Marine and his wife say the scene inside a Veterans Administration hospital in Durham, North Carolina, was so shocking that they felt compelled to take pictures and post them to Facebook. Now thousands of people are expressing outrage and the head of the medical center says an employee involved has been removed […]

March 6, 2017

Trial Begins Over VA Delay in Cancer Case

PHOENIX — A lawyer for a military veteran opened a medical-negligence trial by saying his client’s now-terminal prostate cancer would have been curable had the Veterans Administration hospital in Phoenix diagnosed it sooner. Attorneys defending the Veterans Administration countered that a nurse practitioner involved in the case of Steven Harold Cooper complied with the applicable […]

March 1, 2017

Epidemic Tracking Tool Wins Science Prize

A prototype online platform that uses real-time visualization and viral genome data to track the spread of global pathogens such as Zika and Ebola is the grand prize winner of the Open Science Prize(link. The international team competition is an initiative by the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust and the […]

March 1, 2017