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UND Gets Grants for Health Fields

BISMARCK, N.D. —The University of North Dakota is getting $640,000 to provide scholarships to disadvantaged students pursuing degrees in health care, nursing and other health professions. North Dakota’s congressional delegation says the money comes from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. Officials say North Dakota will have 4,430 registered nurse openings by 2020.

July 7, 2016

Pilots’ Work: Rescue the Ill from South Pole

WASHINGTON — It was so dark it was like being locked in a closet. It was almost cold enough to damage crucial plane parts. The flight in a small, overloaded bush plane to the South Pole was nine hours each way and there was nothing in between. So to the outside world the Antarctic rescue […]

July 7, 2016

Study Suggests Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer Should Be Tested for Inherited Mutations

Inherited mutations in DNA-repair genes, such as the BRCA genes, can increase cancer risk. A new study shows that DNA-repair mutations are significantly more common in men with metastatic prostate cancer compared with men whose prostate cancer hasn’t spread. This suggests all men with advanced prostate cancer should be tested for inherited DNA-repair mutations to […]

July 7, 2016

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Insomnia severity more pronounced in older Hispanics

Insomnia is a more pronounced problem than expected among Hispanics over age 50, according to results of a study by Christopher N. Kaufmann, PhD, and his coauthors. Dr. Kaufmann and his colleagues studied 22,252 participants of white, Non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, or other race/ethnicity. Participant data came from a nationally representative survey from 2002 to 2010, […]

July 7, 2016

Counseling geriatric patients about opportunity and risk when ‘digital dating’

Baby Boomers represent a rapidly growing segment of digital device users.1 As these people age, their continued, even increasing, use of the Internet can be expected.1 At the same time, many older adults (age ≥65) are engaged in intimate relationships and regard sexuality as an important part of life. At this intersection, the Internet is […]

July 7, 2016

Good — and bad — news about today’s teens

The results are in from the 2015 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). There is a lot to celebrate — but there are also some trends that parents, and everyone who spends time with or works with teens, should know about. The YRBS is a nationwide survey of high school students conducted every two years. […]

July 5, 2016

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End Racial Profiling of Asian American Scientists and Academics

When Joyce Xi attends her commencement at Yale this week, she will join not just the ranks of educated men and women, but a very distinctive subset. She will be an Asian American who now knows exactly what it’s like to undergo the extreme xenophobia of her own country. But only as an associate. She […]

July 5, 2016

Access to health in the developed and developing world

The idea that complete access to optimum health care is reserved only for the financially stable in the society or that inequality in health care access should exist for various social reasons first of all should not harmonize with our thoughts and policies against that should be formulated and implemented globally. To think that the […]

July 5, 2016

Senior Health: Men often let health slip after spouse dies

Charles Hendrix Sr., 74, lost his wife of almost 41 years, Jacqueline, in December. He’s found it hard to get out of his South Side home after her passing, but he has support from his son and his church. It’s been six months since Charles Hendrix Sr.’s wife died of heart disease, and he still […]

July 5, 2016

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Louisiana Expands Medicaid; First in Deep South

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana is becoming the first state in the Republican-dominated Deep South to expand its Medicaid program, with more than 233,000 people already enrolled in the government-financed insurance coverage that began July 1. Medicaid expansion fulfills one of Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’ main campaign promises, embracing the health law championed by […]

July 5, 2016

Abortions Totals Fell Under Overturned Texas Law

AUSTIN, Texas — Abortions in Texas plummeted about 15 percent during the first year after approval of tough restrictions that the U.S. Supreme Court has since struck down — a decline that activists say shows how hard it had become to get an abortion in America’s second-largest state. The health department released the statistics June […]

July 5, 2016

New Mexico Will Cut Less from Medicaid Fees

SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico is cutting Medicaid payments by less than originally planned in response to concerns raised by Native American tribal leaders, hospitals and other health care providers. The Human Service Department that oversees Medicaid health care for the poor and disabled also is easing cuts to dentists and the University of […]

July 5, 2016

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Nursing Homes: Better Care Replaces Alarms

MADISON, Wis. — Alarms no longer go off when a resident shifts in bed or rises from a wheelchair at Oakwood Village Prairie Ridge in Madison. Nurses no longer place fall mats next to beds or lower beds to the floor when residents sleep. The changes, which took effect at the nursing facility in June, […]

July 5, 2016

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Study Links Black Men’s Lower Life Expectancy to Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

Marcella Alsan and Marianne Wanamaker examined healthcare utilization and outcomes across demographic groups before and after 1972 and found that the closer Black men lived to Tuskegee, Ala., the less likely they were to visit a doctor.

June 30, 2016

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The Supreme Court Exposed the Anti-Abortion Sham of “Protecting Women’s Health”

The Supreme Court struck down two Texas restrictions on abortion providers in a landmark case on Monday, offering the strongest affirmation of the constitutional right to safe, legal, accessible abortion since Roe v. Wade. Justice Stephen Breyer’s majority opinion in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt is an unequivocal rejection of the mistruths at the heart […]

June 29, 2016

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More people in less space: rapid urbanisation threatens global health

The global population looks set to rise to 9.7 billion people by 2050, when it is expected that more than two-thirds of humanity will be living in urban areas. The global health community is bracing itself. Compared to a more traditional rural existence, the shift in lifestyle and inevitable increase in exposure to pollution will […]

June 29, 2016

Why You Shouldn’t Put Baby Powder Down There

African-American women who reported regular use of body powder were at greater risk for ovarian cancer compared to their peers who didn’t use talc, a new study shows. Regular use of powder was associated with ovarian cancer regardless of where the women used it, the researchers report. Users of genital powder had more than a […]

June 29, 2016

Texas A&M Will Launch Hispanic Health Institute

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas A&M announced the creation of a Hispanic health institute aiming to boost Latino participation in clinical research trials — increasing its footprint in the Rio Grande Valley as rival University of Texas inaugurates a new medical school there. Unveiled at the state Capitol, the program will be the only one of […]

June 29, 2016