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Cancer Study Targets Hispanic Mothers

LAS CRUCES, N.M. —New Mexico State University’s College of Health and Social Services has launched a study to examine the impact of cancer on Hispanic families and to develop programs targeting Latinas. Researchers in the university’s Department of Public Health Sciences said this week they are looking for Hispanic mothers who have been diagnosed with […]

October 31, 2016

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R.I. Issues Emergency Marijuana Rules

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island has issued emergency regulations to begin licensing a new group of private growers of medical marijuana. The Department of Business Regulation said creating a new class of marijuana cultivators will protect patients from an expected shortfall of the product this winter. The regulations took effect October 25. State officials said […]

October 31, 2016

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Ontario Nurse Charged in 8 Deaths

TORONTO — A nurse has been charged with the murders of eight elderly people under her care at nursing homes in southwestern Ontario over a seven-year period, police said. Woodstock Police Chief William Renton said Elizabeth Tracey Mae Wettlaufer, 49, was charged with first-degree murder in the killings that took place between 2007 and 2014. […]

October 31, 2016

Kansas Wesleyan Denied Accreditation for Nursing

SALINA — Kansas Wesleyan University is trying to decide what to do after getting more bad news about its nursing program. Most recently, the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education rejected the school’s application for voluntary accreditation, The Salina Journal ( http://bit.ly/2dT0shA ) reported. The small private university was notified last week and shared the news […]

October 26, 2016

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Grant Aims to Increase Trust Native Americans in Care

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Juliet McMullin, an associate professor of clinical sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, has received a grant of $250,000 from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to lay the groundwork for providers and Native American patients in the Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., area to address patient […]

October 24, 2016

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Nursing Home Contests a Fine for a Death

FRANKLIN GROVE — An Illinois nursing home is contesting a $50,000 fine for a mechanical lift failure and other violations that state investigators say contributed to a resident’s death. The (Dixon) Telegraph reports the Illinois Department of Public Health cited Franklin Grove Living and Rehabilitation Center for the lift problem as well as a violation […]

October 19, 2016

The Citadel Launching Swain Department of Nursing

The S.C. Board of Nursing has approved a nursing program at The Citadel, according to a news release. The newly created Swain Department of Nursing is now accepting applications to an evening nursing program for students to complete their bachelor’s degree and a four-year, daytime program for the S.C. Corps of Cadets, the news release […]

October 19, 2016

Ohio Nursing Homes Tackle Threat of Sex Offenders

Nursing homes residents are among our most vulnerable citizens and safeguards are in place to protect them. But an investigation by this newspaper found that many seniors are not always safe from registered sex offenders who might be living down the hall. The I-Team found that about 140 sex offenders reside in 43 nursing homes […]

October 17, 2016

Arkansas Program Trains Doctors for Rural Areas

In the next decade, the nation will face a shortage of primary care doctors. That will impact patients around the country, and it will be worse in rural regions that already find it hard to attract family physicians. To lessen that impact, a second Arkansas medical school opened in the state this fall, welcoming 120 […]

October 17, 2016

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Teen with Speech Disorder Discovers Acting

NAPLES, Fla. — Shakespeare’s lead female character in “Much Ado About Nothing” is talkative, witty and probably too sarcastic for her own good. “A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours,” Beatrice says. Memorizing and reciting the lines from the 16th century comedic play is a feat in itself. “Scratching could […]

October 12, 2016

University Welcomes Students with Intellectual Disabilities

ELGIN, Ill. — What began in 2015 as a meeting of support between Judson alumnae Gayle Gianopulos ’88 and Nancy Binger ’97 – two mothers of children with Down syndrome – has transformed into an amazing journey. That journey has now launched a new program that will provide a collegiate experience at Judson University for […]

October 12, 2016

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Report Blames Agency in Neglect of Toddler

HARTFORD, Conn.— The state’s child advocate blames “the utter collapse of all safeguards” for the abuse and near-starvation of a toddler who was under the care of the Department of Children and Families. A scathing report by the Office of the Child Advocate, released October 4, outlines how the child welfare agency last year placed […]

October 10, 2016

Maryland Nursing Home Patients at Risk

BALTIMORE — In December, a 59-year-old woman who cannot speak after throat cancer surgery was left outside of a Baltimore homeless center with no money and no phone — in a city where she had no family and no close friends. Vonda Wagner of Rowlesburg, West Virginia, had fallen into a black hole in the […]

October 10, 2016

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Tribe Lays Off 100 Health Care Workers

OKMULGEE,Okla. — Officials say the Muscogee (Creek) Nation has laid off more than 100 health care workers since October began. KTUL-TV reports that the workers are from the tribe’s six clinics and the home health program is slated to be phased out over time. In addition to the layoffs, 55 workers were transferred to other […]

October 10, 2016

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Phoenix VA Health Care System Improves

PHOENIX —Despite a new report raising serious questions about the quality of care within the Phoenix VA Health Care System, a top official in the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs says significant progress has been made. VA Undersecretary for Health David Shulkin addressed the VA Inspector General’s report while introducing a newly appointed director for […]

October 10, 2016

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Drug May Help Reduce Alcohol Disorder

A new medication that targets part of the brain’s stress system may help reduce alcohol use in people with alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to a new study by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. “Medications have become an important tool for treating […]

October 5, 2016

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“Privacy Pods” Help Nursing Mothers

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — It’s a stand-alone, 4-by-8-foot pod that resembles a photo booth. The Durham Bulls have one, and now so does Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. LRMC earlier this month unveiled its first “lactation support pod” — the second at a U.S. military hospital and the first in Europe, hospital officials said — to give […]

October 5, 2016

Bill Aims to Improve Lives of Native American Children

FAIRBANKS — A bill to improve the lives of Native American children passed Congress unanimously last week, according to a news release from the office of U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), one of the bill’s sponsors. The Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act creates a commission to examine social issues […]

October 5, 2016