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Section: Health
Policies
Study: Health Coverage Has Other Economic Benefits
House and Senate lawmakers took the first step last week toward repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare. While there is no doubt of a major fight ahead over what happens next, researchers from the Brown School and Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis have given lawmakers something […]
January 18, 2017
Policies
18 M Will Be Uninsured If Obamacare Dies
WASHINGTON — Insurance premiums would soar for millions of Americans and 18 million more would be uninsured in just one year if Republicans scuttle much of President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul without a replacement, Congress’ budget analysts said Tuesday (January 17). Spotlighting potential perils for Republicans, the report immediately became a flashing hazard light for […]
January 18, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Janet Napolitano Hospitalized Due to Side Effects of Cancer Care
SAN FRANCISCO — University of California President Janet Napolitano, a former U.S. Homeland Security secretary and governor of Arizona, has been undergoing cancer treatment for five months and was hospitalized after suffering complications, the school system said. The UC Office of the President said Napolitano, 59, was diagnosed last August but did not say what […]
January 18, 2017
Policies
Senators Grill HHS Pick on Care Act, Stock Trades
Rep. Tom Price—President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial pick for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services—said “nobody is interested in pulling the rug out from anybody” as part of Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “It’s not our plan for people to lose coverage,” Price told members of the Senate Health, Education, […]
January 18, 2017
Faculty & Staff
Diverse Docket: Court Rules Kankakee CC Did Not Violate Religious Rights
An Illinois community college did not violate the religious rights of a student excluded from its paramedic program for refusing to be vaccinated, an appeals panel has ruled.
January 17, 2017
Health
University of Michigan Announces Efforts to Address Poverty
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan is planning a series of projects that aim to bridge the gap between research and community efforts to prevent and alleviate poverty, the school announced Tuesday. The initiative, called “Poverty Solutions,” will explore and test models to ease the effects of poverty and broadly share that knowledge. […]
January 17, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
We Need “Single Payer”
At his press conference Wednesday at Trump Tower, President-elect Donald Trump said that as soon as the Senate approves his pick for health secretary, he will unveil a “repeal and replace” plan for the Affordable Care Act, known as “Obamacare.” He gave no hints at the details of Trumpcare, other than to say the country […]
January 17, 2017
Other News
Native Americans Make Progress on Diabetes
Diabetes-related kidney failure among Native American adults fell by more than half over almost 20 years, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows. The change is due to improvements in diabetes and kidney care, according to the report. The new research also found that among these patients, blood sugar control improved 10 […]
January 17, 2017
Other News
Medical Groups Split on Trump HHS Pick
The medical community is divided on whether they support or oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead HHS — Rep. Tom Price, MD (R-Ga.), according to MedPage Today. Here are five takeaways: 1. The American Medical Students Association, Physicians for a National Health Program and National Nurses United oppose Mr. Trump’s pick. 2. The Americans […]
January 17, 2017
Other News
Trump Choice for HHS Vows to Divest Health Stocks
Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services will sell off his healthcare investments after facing scrutiny over his stock trades. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), in a letter to the HHS ethics office, vowed to divest his interests in 43 companies within 90 days if confirmed by the Senate. Read More
January 17, 2017
Other News
100s Face Loss of Disability Checks in Fraud Probe
MINNIE, Ky. —Donna Dye saw the coal truck come barreling over the horizon and her head started spinning with that familiar, desperate urge to end it all. She thought of the disconnect notices, the engagement ring she pawned to keep the lights on, the house she loved and would probably lose. Life insurance was the […]
January 17, 2017
Policies
Stocks Slide After Trump Attacks Drugmakers
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said pharmaceutical companies are “getting away with murder” in what they charge the government for medicines, and promised that would change, sending drugs stocks sharply lower. The benchmark S&P 500 index .SPX slipped into negative territory after his remarks at a news conference spooked investors. The iShares Nasdaq Biotech […]
January 17, 2017
Policies
Rural Hospitals Brace for Healthcare Repeal
CONNELLSVILLE, Penn. — Judy Keller, 69, has always relied on Highlands Hospital for medical care, just as her parents did before her. When she walks through the halls, she recognizes faces from the community and even from her days working as a school teacher. The 64-bed facility, she says, is a mainstay of this rural […]
January 17, 2017
Policies
Trump Choice of Antivaccine Leader Alarms Experts
The U.S. medical community is responding with reactions ranging from apprehension to dismay at reports that President-elect Donald Trump reportedly asked a renowned vaccine skeptic to head a new commission on vaccine safety. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has written articles and books claiming a link between childhood vaccines and autism, said Tuesday that Trump […]
January 17, 2017
Health
2017 Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs
The University of Vermont and the University of West Georgia are among the 2017 Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs, making them the only schools to make the list in each of its four years of existence.
January 12, 2017
Students
Bones of Mengele, ‘Angel of Death,’ Teaching Tool in Brazil
SAO PAULO — For more than 30 years, the bones of Josef Mengele, a German doctor who conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Jews at Auschwitz, lay unclaimed inside a blue plastic bag in Sao Paulo’s Legal Medical Institute. Dr. Daniel Romero Munoz, who led the team that identified Mengele’s remains in 1985, saw an […]
January 11, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Bernie Sanders: Trump Must Rescue Obamacare or Admit Lies
It didn’t take long. During the first week of 2017, the new Republican Congress has begun efforts to dismantle America’s health-care system. Their long-standing goal, consistent with their right-wing ideology, is to take away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans, privatize Medic300are, make massive cuts to Medicaid and defund Planned Parenthood. At the […]
January 11, 2017
Nursing
UMKC Nursing Dean Receives Federal Honor
KANSAS CITY, MO – Ann Cary, dean of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing and Health Studies, has been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The national advisory council — comprised of up to 23 members including students, practicing […]
January 11, 2017
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