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Study: Female Participation in Workforce Far from Globally Embraced

As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, a new report finds that only half of women worldwide participate in the workforce, compared to more than three-quarters of men.

March 8, 2017

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Making Healthcare Unaffordable for Millions

That’s not an ironic headline. Leading House Republicans have included a number of transformative and consequential reforms in their American Health Care Act, the full text of which was published Monday evening. But those reforms are overshadowed by the bill’s stubborn desire to make health insurance unaffordable for millions of Americans, and trap millions more […]

March 8, 2017

Students Build 3D-Printed Prosthetics for Kids

CINCINNATI — College and high school students in the Cincinnati area are using 3D printing to solve medical problems in the community. A group of biomedical engineering students at the University of Cincinnati started a student organization in 2015 to build inexpensive prosthetic hands for local kids. Inspired by the global organization e-Nable, Enable UC […]

March 8, 2017

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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Study: Telehealth Use Drives Up Costs

Direct-to-consumer telehealth services make care more convenient by giving patients with minor illnesses 24-7 access to a physician, but they don’t necessarily reduce costs by substituting for office and emergency room (ER) visits, a new study published in Health Affairs suggests. Researchers at RAND Corporation looked at three years of claims data and found that […]

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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GOP Plans Massive Changes to Medicaid

The text of the long-awaited Republican bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was released Monday evening and included tax credits to help people buy coverage based somewhat on income, instead of just on age as previous drafts obtained by Politico had suggested. It also eliminates the cap on employer-sponsored health insurance […]

March 8, 2017

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Conservatives Push Back on GOP Health Plan

WASHINGTON — A powerful conservative backlash threatened to sink the new Republican health care bill less than 24 hours after its launch, even as President Donald Trump and congressional leaders began trying to sell the legislation as the long-promised GOP cure for “Obamacare.” “We’re going to do something that’s great and I’m proud to support […]

March 8, 2017

Empty Promises

Lost amid the pundits’ applause for President Trump’s calmer demeanor in his speech to Congress Tuesday was a key shift that received far less national attention: the abandonment of promises made by candidate and President-elect Trump on healthcare. “We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump said in press conference Jan. 11. “We’re going to […]

March 6, 2017

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

Study Finds Ways to Prevent Alcohol Use

Community-based and individual-level prevention strategies are effective ways to reduce alcohol use among American Indian and other youth living in rural communities, according to a new study supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The National Institute on Drug Abuse also provided support for […]

March 6, 2017

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Policies Put Women at Risk

Donald Trump’s sexual and reproductive health policy changes threaten women in the USA and across the world, warns an expert in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. “Much progress has been made in the use of more effective contraception and in the reduction of unintended pregnancies”, explains Professor Daniel Grossman from the […]

March 6, 2017

Drug Trump Touted Costs $300,000 a Year

President Donald Trump told Congress on Tuesday that more needs to be done to bring down “artificially high” prices for prescription drugs, while at the same time praising a drug that turns out to cost $300,000 per year. During the televised address, Trump acknowledged in the audience Megan Crowley, a college student who has Pompe […]

March 6, 2017

Healthcare Complicated? Who Knew?

If there’s one thing almost everybody across the political spectrum knows about health-care reform, it’s that it’s really hard. People who study the issue closely know it. People who don’t follow the issue know. (That’s why lots of smart people don’t follow the issue closely — it’s really hard!) But there is apparently a category […]

March 1, 2017

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