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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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Trial Begins Over VA Delay in Cancer Case

PHOENIX — A lawyer for a military veteran opened a medical-negligence trial by saying his client’s now-terminal prostate cancer would have been curable had the Veterans Administration hospital in Phoenix diagnosed it sooner. Attorneys defending the Veterans Administration countered that a nurse practitioner involved in the case of Steven Harold Cooper complied with the applicable […]

March 1, 2017

Epidemic Tracking Tool Wins Science Prize

A prototype online platform that uses real-time visualization and viral genome data to track the spread of global pathogens such as Zika and Ebola is the grand prize winner of the Open Science Prize(link. The international team competition is an initiative by the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust and the […]

March 1, 2017

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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Patrick Kennedy Wants to Protect Mental Health Coverage

After his father, Ted Kennedy, passed away, former U.S. Congressman Patrick Kennedy chose not to run for re-election in the House of Representatives so he could devote more energy to the issue that he cares most deeply about: changing the way we talk about and treat millions of Americans who suffer from mental health disorders. […]

March 1, 2017

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Reform Could Offer Opportunity in Digital Healthcare

The next few years are likely to see a major attempt to use market mechanisms to reduce the cost of U. S. healthcare. Healthcare costs are rising again, and Republican campaign promises will put huge pressure on the federal budget. Republicans prefer market based solutions to problems, and they harshly criticize the parts of Obamacare […]

March 1, 2017

GOP Under Pressure to Revamp Health Plan

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared Monday that “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” Yet the opposite has long been painfully obvious for top congressional Republicans, who face mounting pressure to scrap the law even as problems grow longer and knottier. With the GOP-controlled Congress starting its third month of work on […]

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

Our $1 Million Medical Bill

Avoidable medical complications plague American families physically, emotionally — and economically. A poignant example of the damage caused not by accidents but by failures in the health care system was recently identified and carefully studied in the medical device space. An analysis by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined that physicians, hospitals and manufacturer failed […]

February 27, 2017

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NIH: Brain Scans Detect Autism Earlier

For children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), early diagnosis is critical to allow for possible interventions at a time when the brain is most amenable to change. But that’s been tough to implement for a simple reason: the symptoms of ASD, such as communication difficulties, social deficits, and repetitive behaviors, often do not show up […]

February 27, 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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Biotech Firm May Hold Key to Long, Healthy Life

As Trump shakes up the White House, pharma and biotech are on edge. While the media talks about Obamacare, it turns out that Trump’s new FDA chief could have a bigger impact on health care and associated markets. The story here is that a company in liberal Northern California may have the most to gain […]

February 27, 2017

Research Will Focus on Black Cancer Survivors

The largest study to date of African-American cancer survivors in the United States is underway. The Detroit Research on Cancer Survivors (ROCS) study, which will include 5,560 cancer survivors, will support a broad research agenda looking at the major factors affecting cancer progression, recurrence, mortality, and quality of life among African-American cancer survivors. The effort […]

February 27, 2017

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