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Ruling Complicates Threat to Cut Off Funds for Obamacare

President Donald Trump’s bold threat to push “Obamacare” into collapse may get harder to carry out after a new court ruling. The procedural decision late Tuesday by a federal appeals panel in Washington has implications for millions of consumers. The judges said that a group of states can defend the legality of government “cost-sharing” subsidies […]

August 7, 2017

Study: Exposure to Violence Increases Obesity Risk in Teens

Teens consumed more unhealthy foods and beverages on days they were exposed to violence, and suffered from fatigue due to poor sleep the next day, according to a new study by Duke researchers. Those behaviors, especially increased soda consumption, are important predictors of weight gain. More than 20 percent of U.S. adolescents are classified as […]

August 7, 2017

Churches Spread Alzheimer’s Awareness

The church choir in bright blue robes swayed and testified on a hot summer Sunday. Pastor Anthony Everett, in his own robe of orange and brown, preached to his “saints” of Wesley United Methodist Church and they called back their approval with a staggered chorus of “Amen!” But this Sunday, Memory Sunday, was different. Half […]

August 7, 2017

OK, Now Fix it

After falling one senator shy on an irresponsible, thrown-together plan cynically branded “skinny repeal” of the Affordable Care Act — thanks, John McCain — Senate Republicans have a fateful choice. They can finally meet the outstretched hand of Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and get to work on real-world, bipartisan fixes to the law, which, though […]

August 2, 2017

Computer Science Faculty to Study Indian Diabetes Care

Computer Science Assoc. Prof. Juan Li is the principal investigator for a newly announced grant from the National Science Foundation to study self-management of diabetes in Native Americans, along with co-investigator and Computer Science Assoc. Prof. Jun Kong. Siobhan Wescott, an NDSU Asst. Prof. of Practice in Public Health, and Donald Warne, a Professor and […]

August 2, 2017

FDA Proposes Cutting Nicotine

For the first time, the federal government is proposing cutting the nicotine level in cigarettes so they aren’t so addictive. U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief Scott Gottlieb on Friday directed the agency’s staff to develop new regulations on nicotine. The FDA has had the power since 2009 to regulate nicotine levels but hasn’t done […]

August 2, 2017

AP Fact Check: Trump Wrong on Vets, Health Payments

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump bragged about a mission accomplished in veterans’ health care that has not been achieved. He threatened to end health insurers’ “bailouts” that actually help consumers. And he cited “tremendous” costs to taxpayers from providing health services to transgender troops without providing evidence of that expense. Over a week dominated by […]

August 2, 2017

Sorry, No Pot from the VA

Republicans in Congress blocked a vote on legislation that many ill veterans want – – that bill would have allowed VA doctors to prescribe medical marijuana. The bill, known as “Veterans Equal Access” amendment, would have moved to debate on the House floor. Instead, the House Rules Committee stopped the bill by excluding it from […]

August 2, 2017

Marijuana-Bummer

Researchers: Trump Tweets Could Harm LGBT Study

UCLA and USC researchers conducting a study on LGBTQ military personnel said they were concerned that President Donald Trump’s attitude toward LGBTQ individuals could adversely affect their study. Trump announced on Twitter on Wednesday that he plans to ban transgender individuals from serving in the military because of medical costs associated with transgender health care. […]

August 2, 2017

Research: You Can Buy Happiness After All

WASHINGTON— – Yes, you can buy happiness — especially if the money saves you time. People who dole out cash to save time on things like housekeeping, delivery services and taxis are a little bit happier than those who don’t, new research finds. Researchers surveyed more than 6,000 people in four countries and ran an […]

August 2, 2017

Can GOP Stop the Sabotaging of Obamacare?

Congressional Republicans spent months fighting among themselves over how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. In the wake of last week’s Senate failure, however, GOP lawmakers find themselves increasingly at odds with President Trump. The president wants to “let Obamacare implode” in the hopes of forcing Democrats to the negotiating table. Republicans on […]

August 2, 2017

Vanderbilt Hospital Settles Medicare Lawsuit for $6.5M

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After six years in court, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has settled a federal lawsuit for $6.5 million over claims that the hospital overbilled Medicare and Medicaid. WPLN-FM reports that in the whistleblower lawsuit, former doctors claimed the hospital charged higher rates for attending physicians when medical residents performed services. It claims the […]

July 31, 2017

What F.D.R. Knew

When the Social Security Act of 1935 was being drafted, liberals chided Franklin Roosevelt for the measure’s funding method, via payroll taxes, which did little to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor. Roosevelt responded that the critics misunderstood the purpose of the payroll taxes. “We put those payroll contributions there so as to […]

July 31, 2017

Researcher: Give Me Your Earwax, Armpit Sweat

DURHAM, N.C.— It’s a dirty job, and somebody wants to do it. N.C. Central University researcher Julie Horvath has examined the microbes living in our armpits, and now wants to look at earwax. Horvath and other researchers are investigating how modern personal hygiene habits may affect microbes living on our skin. Horvath and a research […]

July 31, 2017

Brain Scans: Fathers React to Daughters, Sons Differently

The ratio of boys to girls born in the United States is 51 percent to 49 percent. Since 1940, an average of 91,685 more male babies have been born each year than females, a total of 5,776,130 over that 63-year period. An early review notes that in the United States, parents — especially fathers — […]

July 31, 2017

Rare Disease Common in Small Mormon Town

A polygamist Mormon enclave on the Arizona-Utah border is seeing more and more children being born with an extremely rare disorder that causes severe mental and physical retardation. Dr. Theodore Tarby, who specialized in rare childhood diseases, first discovered the problem in 1990, when a woman in the community brought her 10-year-old son to him. […]

July 31, 2017

Computer Models Provide New Clues to Sickle Cell

Computer models developed by Brown University mathematicians show new details of what happens inside a red blood cell affected by sickle cell disease. The researchers said they hope their models, described in an article in the Biophysical Journal, will help in assessing drug strategies to combat the genetic blood disorder, which affects millions of people […]

July 31, 2017

Trump Makes Threats as Bipartisan Group Discuss Fixes

In the wake of the shocking failure of the Senate Republicans’ push to destroy Obamacare, over the weekend, President Trump revived his threat to make the individual health-insurance markets implode, tweeting “BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!” (And calling for an end to the legislative filibuster, though […]

July 31, 2017

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