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Youth With Type 2 Diabetes Face Most Complications

Teens and young adults with type 2 diabetes develop kidney, nerve, and eye diseases – as well as some risk factors for heart disease – more often than their peers with type 1 diabetes in the years shortly after diagnosis. The results are the latest findings of the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth(link is external) […]

March 1, 2017

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Trump Discusses Healthcare, Minus Details

President Donald Trump renewed his call to repeal and “replace” the Affordable Care Act during his address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday, but he once again did not offer any real details about what should succeed the landmark health care overhaul. Throughout his campaign and ever since his surprising Election Day victory, Trump […]

March 1, 2017

Can Having Role Models Produce More Minority Doctors?

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Eight of Melissa Cornett’s 10 children want to be doctors. The oldest, at 29, hopes to become a family physician; the youngest, who’s “almost 9,” wants to be an ER doctor. Although they all have endured the typical bumps, bruises, and medical crises of childhood, they’ve only ever met two doctors who […]

February 27, 2017

Obamacare’s Popularity Goes Up

Obamacare is getting more popular with voters even as President Donald Trump moves to get rid of the landmark health-care law. A total of 45 percent of registered voters say they approve of Obamacare, compared to 45 percent who oppose the law, a new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds. Since early January — weeks before Trump […]

February 27, 2017

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Illinois Schools Adopt Asthma Protocols

CHICAGO — School personnel across Illinois are adapting to a new state law that requires districts to have an emergency protocol to deal with asthma emergencies. Under the law, anyone who works with students must be trained to handle asthma emergencies. All children with asthma must have a written “asthma action plan” at the school […]

February 22, 2017

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Tribes Offer Sex Ed Public Schools Don’t

On a rainy Wednesday afternoon, four American Indian teenagers are gathered in a nondescript building along rural Okmulgee, Oklahoma’s main street. As the headquarters of the Muscogee Creek Nation, Okmulgee takes pride in its American Indian heritage. Street signs in the downtown area are in both English and Muscogee languages and tribal insignia is seen […]

February 22, 2017

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Governor Opposes Privatizing W.Va. Med School

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice says he’s against a legislative proposal to privatize the state medical school in Lewisburg. The Democratic governor says privatization of the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine would drive up in-state tuition. He says it makes “no sense” for the state to divest the highly ranked school, […]

February 20, 2017

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N.J. Gets Anti-Opioid Law

TRENTON, N.J. — Just a day after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on drug addiction, Gov. Chris Christie signed legislation Wednesday aimed at curbing the state’s opioid addiction epidemic, taking action just minutes after the Democrat-led Assembly approved the measure. The legislation curbs initial opioid prescriptions to a five-day supply, making […]

February 20, 2017

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Md. Legislators Weigh Legalizing Meds for Dying

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — In 2014, Alexa Fraser’s 90-year-old father successfully ended his life with a gun to the head after two failed suicide attempts. Her father, whom Fraser described as a “fiercely independent person,” suffered from Parkinson’s disease, a progressive movement disorder marked by involuntary tremors and slowed movement. His condition had worsened and he […]

February 20, 2017

Visa Limits Pose Threat to Medical Science

Boston/London: From tiny start-ups to global giants, the companies that sustain the $324 billion US biotech industry are increasingly alarmed as President Donald Trump considers following his controversial travel ban with restrictions on skilled foreign immigrants. To crank out discoveries, US biotech firms such as Amgen Inc. and Gilead Sciences Inc., as well as overseas […]

February 15, 2017

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Humana Will Quit ACA Exchange

Health insurer Humana is leaving the Affordable Care Act’s public insurance exchanges for next year as it regroups after cancelling ending its proposed combination with rival insurer Aetna. Humana Inc. covers about 150,000 people on exchanges in 11 states. The insurer said on February 14 that it had taken several actions to improve that business, […]

February 15, 2017

Report: States’ Progress on Telemedicine Varies

All state Medicaid agencies now cover some form of telemedicine, according to the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). Medicaid coverage of telehealth-based dental services, substance abuse treatment and counseling has increased, though 19 states don’t specify the type of care provider allowed to provide telehealth services as a condition of payment, the group’s latest analysis on […]

February 13, 2017

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Groups Urge Trump to Back Science on Vaccines

More than 300 medical and health groups have signed on to a letter to President Trump reaffirming their support for vaccines. In the letter organized by the American Academy of Pediatrics this week, the groups ask to meet with Trump to discuss evidence supporting vaccine safety and effectiveness. Read More

February 13, 2017

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Spiritual Therapy Possible Treatment For PTSD

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Doctors in Augusta are exploring the idea of using spiritual therapy to treat veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Such veterans are often treated with medication and psychotherapy, the Augusta Chronicle reported. But a research survey at Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta aims to find out whether spiritual therapy might […]

February 8, 2017

Senator from N.M. Pushes Back On Healthcare Overhaul

SANTA FE, N.M. — Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Udall highlighted the risks and uncertainties of efforts to overhaul the nation’s health care system by President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress during a speech Thursday to a joint session of the New Mexico state Legislature. Udall said Republican vows to repeal the Affordable Care Act […]

February 8, 2017

Trump’s VA Pick Pledges to Save Agency

WASHINGTON — Physician David Shulkin is headed toward likely confirmation as President Donald Trump’s veterans affairs secretary after offering repeated assurances to sometimes skeptical senators that he will work quickly to meet the medical care needs of millions of veterans without dismantling the beleaguered department. At his confirmation hearing, Shulkin, the top health official at […]

February 6, 2017

Weed 101: Colorado Shares Agricultural Expertise

DENVER — North Carolina wants to know if marijuana could one day replace tobacco as a cash crop. Louisiana is wondering how pot holds up in high humidity. Washington state has questions about water supplies for weed. Colorado agriculture officials had answers for them all as they briefed officials from about a dozen states — […]

February 6, 2017

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Drexel Team Awarded $12M Grant for Study

PHILADELPHIA — A research team at Drexel University in Philadelphia has been awarded a $12 million grant by a British foundation to examine the effects of urban life on the health of Latin Americans. WCAU-TV reports Ana Diez Roux, dean of Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health, will head the team. The study is one […]

February 1, 2017