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Section: Health
Policies
Trump to Appoint UNC Doctor to Cancer Institute
The director of the University of North Carolina’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center could be headed to Washington, D.C., to lead the National Cancer Institute. President Donald Trump announced Friday that he intends to appoint Dr. Norman “Ned” Sharpless, 50, to head the federal agency in charge of cancer research. Sharpless, a Greensboro native, has been […]
June 12, 2017
Nursing
Bluefield State Signs Deal to Fill Medical Jobs
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Bluefield State College has signed an agreement with the state Department of Education to offer health sciences pathways to more quickly launch careers in medicine. The Health Science Education Pathway and the Associate of Nursing Pathway outline exact courses students need to fulfill requirements for in nursing and radiologic technician associate’s degrees […]
June 12, 2017
Disparities
GOP Plan Will Hit Native People Harder
As Senate Republicans attempt to produce their own health care blueprint this week, beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act are left wondering: what will happen to me? But one community is especially vulnerable if Congress repeals the ACA: Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The American Health Care Act, the Republican bill currently making its way […]
June 12, 2017
Policies
Key Republican Demands Action to Shore Up Insurance Markets
A senior House Republican on Thursday called for immediate action to stabilize shaky health insurance markets around the country, amid concerns that the GOP could get blamed for rising premiums and dwindling choices next year. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, said the government should keep paying billions of dollars in “cost-sharing” […]
June 12, 2017
Policies
Skirmish Unfolding Over Healthcare
The drama over James B. Comey’s testimony Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee isn’t the only excitement playing out on Capitol Hill today. A lower-profile fight involving the House health-care bill and whether it can go over to the Senate is not exactly Comey vs. Trump on charges of Russian election interference. But it is […]
June 12, 2017
Policies
N.E. Journal: Trump’s Making Us Mentally Ill
A new review paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that a growing body of empirical evidence shows how presidential elections can have effects on physical and mental health, and can influence behavior. Specifically, they found evidence that suggests that the campaign and subsequent election of Donald Trump has had a negative […]
June 12, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
End the War Against the Poor
In an age when we are supposed to be a society that cares enough to see that all of us receive the health care that we need, we still have those among us who insist that people with no assets — often homeless and frequently missing meals — are supposed to exercise “personal responsibility” by […]
June 7, 2017
Policies
Scientist: Trumpcare Presents Threat to Research
A facet of the Republican-led American Health Care Act would “cripple” the advances made in using genomic and big data sets to bolster medicine, the nation’s first federal chief data scientist says. DJ Patil, U.S. chief data scientist in the latter years of Barack Obama’s presidency, wrote on Medium that Trumpcare, as the AHCA is […]
June 7, 2017
Policies
Lawmakers Approve UNLV Med School
CARSON CITY, Nev. — In the works for years, a new medical school is finally going to become a reality at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The Nevada Legislature gave final approval Monday night to a bill that includes $25 million in state money to build the UNLV School of Medicine. It’s been a […]
June 7, 2017
Nursing
Idaho Faces Severe Nursing Shortage
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho continues to experience pockets of severe nursing shortages while better paying jobs in surrounding states are attracting Idaho’s nursing graduates, according to a recently released report from the Idaho Department of Labor. The report, issued late last month, found that southwestern Idaho faces the biggest challenge of finding enough nurses because […]
June 7, 2017
Disparities
Rural America Braces for Alzheimer’s Crisis
June Aman no longer laughs when her husband teases her, which he does fairly often. When she complains about how long it takes Dave to fix something, he says she never told him she was in a hurry. When she says he has no one else to pick on, he responds, “You poor thing.” Sometimes, […]
June 7, 2017
Other News
Trump Plans Overhaul of VA Records
The Trump administration announced Monday that it is taking a multibillion-dollar step to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic medical records system to make it compatible with the Defense Department’s records. “This is one of the biggest wins for our veterans in decades,” President Trump said at the White House. Read More
June 7, 2017
Other News
Single-Payer Healthcare Advances in California
A proposal to adopt a single-payer healthcare system for California took an initial step forward Thursday when the state Senate approved a bare-bones bill that lacks a method for paying the $400-billion cost of the plan. The proposal was made by legislators led by Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) at the same time President Trump […]
June 7, 2017
Other News
Children’s Hospitals Caught in Crosshairs by Funding Cuts
Republican plans targeting federal funding for health coverage have drawn ire from Americans in all corners of the country, but some of the loudest voices are coming from parents. They have cornered members of Congress at town halls to ask how the slashed budgets will affect some of society’s most vulnerable. Suggested cuts to Medicaid […]
June 7, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
GOP Plan Is “Immoral”
In 1948, the United Nations passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In part, Article 25 reads, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care.” This declaration claims medical care as a human right, that […]
June 5, 2017
Disparities
LabCorp Worker Files Discrimination Suit
BURLINGTON, N.C. — A Laboratory Corporation of America worker says in a lawsuit that the company discriminated against him because of his race and passed over him for a raise because he complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The Times-News of Burlington reports Dwayne Muhammad said in the lawsuit that he received a written […]
June 5, 2017
Policies
Senate Juggles Competing Healthcare Demands
WASHINGTON — For Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, writing a Republican-only health care bill that can pass the Senate boils down to this question: How do you solve a problem like Dean, Lisa, Patrick, Ted, Rand and Susan? Those are some GOP senators whose clashing demands McConnell, R-Ky., must resolve. Facing solid Democratic opposition to demolishing […]
June 5, 2017
Policies
Healthcare Plan Presents Financial Dilemma
Trump’s “Repeal and Replace Obamacare” and the Proposed American Health Care Policy may Crush Most of the Americans under a Huge Financial Dilemma. Since he took the office, President Mr. Donald Trump has been in a constant effort to completely wipe out any signs of the Obama regime from the United States of America. He […]
June 5, 2017
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