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Section: Health
Disparities
Women Could Pay More for Less With Repeal
WASHINGTON— From a return to higher premiums based on gender, to gaps in coverage for birth control and breast pumps, experts say women could end up paying more for less if the Obama-era health care law is repealed. The 2010 law ended a common industry practice of charging women more than men for policies purchased […]
February 6, 2017
Women
Tyesha Burks Takes on Age-defying Mission
Dr. Tyesha N. Burks, selected by Diverse as a member of the 2017 Class of Emerging Scholars, is on a mission to remedy the problem that everyone faces even if they avoid or survive a particular disease: aging.
February 5, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
What Trump Can Do to Fix Healthcare
My friend Patrick Spain, a serial internet entrepreneur, now runs a tele-medicine company called First Stop Health to which I subscribe. In other words, all of the flus, backaches, rashes, passing infections, and 24-hour viruses, the stuff of most doctor visits, are, in my house, handled by a telephone call. Call a number, describe your […]
February 1, 2017
Policies
Va. Senate OKs Wider Use of Marijuana Oil
RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Senate has approved a bill expanding the number of ailments that can be treated with two derivatives of the marijuana plant. The chamber voted January 26 on the measure that allows people with cancer, HIV, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis and a number of other diseases to access cannabidiol oil or […]
February 1, 2017
Other News
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
Other News
Worries Over Turf’s Link to Cancer Holds Up Project
NEWNAN, Georgia — The money is budgeted, the athletic committee has given the go-ahead and Superintendent Steve Barker has his recommendation ready. So why has the Coweta County School System not moved ahead with installing artificial turf on its high school football fields in the two and a half years since the project was first […]
February 1, 2017
Other News
Trump Policies Threat to Veterans’ Care
Veterans voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by a 2-to-1 margin back in November. But a couple of changes that the new administration has underway are likely to put a particular squeeze on former service members’ health care. One particular flashpoint is at the Department of Veterans Affairs. When President Trump made good on […]
February 1, 2017
Disparities
California’s Immigrant Kids Could Lose Care First
On a recent rainy morning in Los Angeles, Maria Bernal’s stove clicks to life with a bright blue flame to toast bread on a griddle for her 9-year-old son Edwin to smear with peanut butter. As she scoops papaya chunks into the blender for a smoothie, she recalls her worry during all the years when […]
February 1, 2017
Other News
Medical Groups Say Travel Ban Worsens Shortages
Some groups are concerned President Trump’s order blocking people from seven countries from entering the United States could harm healthcare. The order could worsen the shortage of doctors in the United States, warns the Association of American Medical Colleges. We are deeply concerned that the Jan. 27 executive order will disrupt education and research and […]
February 1, 2017
Policies
Trump Already Ruining Healthcare, Obama Chief Warns
WASHINGTON ― Andy Slavitt helped save Obamacare once already. He’s hoping he can do it again. Until Inauguration Day, Slavitt had been acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services since March 2015. That agency oversees the two health programs in its name along with the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Affordable […]
February 1, 2017
Policies
Panel Sets Aside Rule to Forward HHS, Treasury Picks
The Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday approved President Trump’s picks for Health and Treasury secretaries after Republicans decided to suspend the panel’s rules and vote without any Democrats present. The rule they suspended had required at least one Democrat to be present for votes. It was the latest escalation in partisan tensions in the new […]
February 1, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Will Paul Ryan’s Idea Work for Pre-Existing Ailments?
The pre-existing conditions issue played a central role in the design of the Affordable Care Act, and dealing with this issue appropriately in any ACA replacement plan will be instrumental to the achievement of stable and sustainable individual and small group health insurance markets. House Speaker Paul Ryan and House Republicans’ June 2016 Better Way […]
January 30, 2017
Other News
Gates Foundation Gives $279M to University of Washington
SEATTLE — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is awarding $279 million to the University of Washington to expand its work in improving global population health, the largest private donation to the university, officials said Wednesday. The grant funds another decade of research at the university’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which provides critical […]
January 30, 2017
Other News
Device Maker Will Move If Trump Hikes Mexico Tariff
Medical device firm Fisher & Paykel Healthcare will consider switching factories making products bound for the United States from Mexico to New Zealand if US President Donald Trump’s administration taxes Mexican imports. The company, a major global supplier of specialised respiratory equipment for hospitals, is one of the first companies with Mexican operations to disclose […]
January 30, 2017
Disparities
Early Death Rates Down for Blacks, Latinos and Asians
Premature death rates have declined in the United States among Hispanics, blacks, and Asian/Pacific Islanders (APIs) — in line with trends in Canada and the United Kingdom — but increased among whites and American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs), according to a comprehensive study of premature death rates for the entire U.S. population from 1999 to 2014. […]
January 30, 2017
Policies
Buzzwords: What ‘Repeal and Replace’ Means
President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers have yet to come up with a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. But in the meantime, there’s already a complicated vocabulary to describe the process and its goals. The terminology can be difficult to follow, starting with the now-ubiquitous phrase “repeal and replace.” Adding to […]
January 30, 2017
Policies
Most Doctors Who Voted for Trump Like Obamacare
Only 37.9% of doctors who reported voting for Donald Trump are in favor of completely repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), widely referred to as Obamacare, according to a survey by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The revelation of serious misgivings by the people on the front lines of healthcare, published yesterday in […]
January 30, 2017
Policies
GOP Doesn’t Have a ACA Plan
The history of the development of the Republican alternative to Obamacare since the beginning of the health-care debate, in 2009, has been an endless loop of loud promises that a full plan will be announced soon, followed by quiet admissions that it will not. Seventeen days ago, Donald Trump promised a vote to repeal the […]
January 30, 2017
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