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5 Strategies for Safe Opioid Treatment

CHICAGO, Sept. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) today released the second part of an interview with Thomas W. Frederickson, MD, FACP, SFHM, MBA – lead author of the Society of Hospital Medicine RADEO guide (“Reducing Adverse Drug Events Related to Opioids”). The guide is a comprehensive clinician manual […]

September 28, 2016

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NIH Launches Centers to Address Disparities

The Natinoal Institues of Health wants to get outside the vacuum. Where people live, work and play can influence the development and progress of crhnoic disease and conditions. So, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) is launching the Transdiciplinary Collaborative Centers for Health Disparities Research on Chronic Disease prevenetion program. Read […]

September 28, 2016

Vermont to Use New Medical Teaching Model

Inside Higher Ed reports on plans at the University of Vermont College of Medicine to revamp its academic approach, replacing traditional classroom lectures with video instruction and application-based learning with in-person “active learning” settings. The model follows a Stanford University-piloted program which suggested that medical training could be best delivered through a flipped classroom system, […]

September 28, 2016

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Exhibit Takes Long View of Native American Health Care

An interactive exhibit installed Thursday at Arizona State’s Hayden Library examines the history, culture and tradition of indigenous medicine to help viewers explore Native American health from a wide-ranging perspective that includes spiritual, social and community well-being. “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness,” on display through late October, looks at the connection […]

September 21, 2016

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HHS Gives $87 Million for Health IT Analytics

More than 1300 health centers across the nation will share in $87 million of HHS funding to support the continued adoption of health IT tools, including health information exchange capabilities and big data analytics solutions, as well as certified upgrades to electronic health record infrastructure. The funding, aimed at supporting healthcare providers that deliver primary […]

September 21, 2016

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Company Helps Native Americans Grow Cannabis

North of Las Vegas’s bustling, fluorescent strip sits the Paiute Nation tribe. Like many other Native American tribes across the United States, they’ve suffered from and struggled with poverty, depression, and alcoholism. With dwindling numbers—only 56 adult members currently remain as a result of blood quantum laws—the Paiutes are facing the reality of losing their […]

September 21, 2016

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HHS Will Provide More Information About Public Trials

In an effort to make information about clinical trials widely available to the public, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today issued a final rule (link is external) that specifies requirements for registering certain clinical trials and submitting summary results information to ClinicalTrials.gov. The new rule expands the legal requirements for submitting registration […]

September 19, 2016

CDC: One-Fourth of Medicare Part D Patients Don’t Take their Blood Pressure Medicine

High blood pressure can lead to heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and death. About 70% of US adults age 65 or older have high blood pressure and only about half have it under control (less than 140/90 mmHg). Blood pressure medicine (along with a healthy diet and exercise) can protect the heart, brain, and kidneys, […]

September 19, 2016

NIH Wants 10,000 Children for Landmark Brain Study

Recruitment for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD(link is external)) study, the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States, began today. The landmark study by the National Institutes of Health will follow the biological and behavioral development of more than 10,000 children beginning at ages 9-10 through adolescence into […]

September 14, 2016

Poll: Is the Surgeon General Right About Opioid Epidemic?

Recently, the Surgeon General issued a letter to physicians urging them to take a part in combating the opioid epidemic. In addition to bringing our readers the most topical articles and news from PPAHS and the web, we’ve also created a brief (2 minute – 5 question) survey to understand reactions to the Surgeon General’s […]

September 14, 2016

Former Virginia Hospital Becomes Medical College Hub

MARION, Va. — A new patient is occupying the exam rooms of a Smyth County hospital that hasn’t accepted sick people in years. The patient’s name is SimMan 3G and he has a lot of issues: He bleeds. He goes into shock. He moans in pain. SimMan 3G is a high fidelity simulation mannequin and […]

September 14, 2016

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NIH Award Expands Study of Alzheimer’s Biomarkers

The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) — the long-running National Institutes of Health-supported study investigating brain and fluid biomarkers of the disease — enters a new phase of discovery with the launch of ADNI3. With the recent NIH award of approximately $40 million over the next five years—coupled with anticipated private sector contributions of $20 […]

September 13, 2016

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Maryland Lawmakers Seek Diversity in Medical Marijuana Industry

Black Maryland state lawmakers are planning to propose emergency legislation to address the dearth of minority-owned businesses approved to grow medical marijuana in the state and may demand scrapping the results of a nine-month application process and starting over. Del. Cheryl D. Glenn (D-Baltimore) announced the plans at a Friday meeting of the Legislative Black […]

September 13, 2016

Report on Sickle Cell Disease Suggests Treatment and Care is Inadequate

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited, lifelong chronic disorder affecting nearly 100,000 Americans and a growing global health problem that will touch nearly 30 percent more people globally in the next three decades. Though new approaches to managing SCD have led to improvements in diagnosis and supportive care, people living with the disease still […]

September 8, 2016

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Study: Broad Health Disparities Found in Kentucky

Local medical professionals believe that results of a 2011-13 study, the latest data available, by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky are different now because of progress made under the Affordable Care Act. “Health Disparities in the Commonwealth, A Report on Race and Ethnicity and Health in Kentucky” revealed that multiracial and black Kentuckians tend […]

September 8, 2016

Top Nursing Academics Will Be Honored

Professor Hester Klopper and Professor John Daly will be joining students completing their studies in ceremonies on 2-3 September. Professor Hester Klopper, deputy vice-chancellor of strategic initiatives and internationalisation at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, has an interest in the role nurses play in influencing global health policy and strengthening healthcare systems. Her current research […]

September 2, 2016

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Shooting Death at Nursing Home Under Investigation

SALEM — State police assigned to the Essex District Attorney’s Office and Salem detectives are investigating the death of an 81-year-old resident of the Grosvenor Park Health Center in Vinnin Square after he reportedly used a handgun to shoot and kill himself on Friday night, according to Salem police Capt. Conrad Prosniewski and Essex District […]

September 2, 2016

GW Resident Alleges Bias in Dismissal

A former resident at George Washington University Hospital sued the university last month, alleging that she was dismissed because she had cancer. Stephanie Waggel started as a psychiatry resident at George Washington in the summer of 2014, her lawsuit says. In the spring of 2015, she was diagnosed with kidney cancer, and, after she informed […]

September 2, 2016