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The CDC Says Doctors Should Screen More Pregnant Women for Zika

Doctors in the U.S. should proactively screen at-risk pregnant women for the Zika virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “All pregnant women in the United States and U.S. territories should be assessed for possible Zika virus exposure at each prenatal care visit,” reads a new memo the CDC released on Monday. […]

July 28, 2016

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UN-backed AIDS conference closes with calls to end discrimination, bolster HIV care, support

As the 21st International AIDS Conference wrapped up in Durban, South Africa, the Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS), Luiz Loures, called for ending discrimination against patients, especially those from the most vulnerable populations. “The Durban conference was marked by the phenomenal progress made over the last […]

July 28, 2016

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Ice Bucket Challenge credited with ALS breakthrough

(Reuters) – The Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral two years ago, raising hundreds of millions of dollars, has helped identify a new gene behind the neurodegenerative disease ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, researchers say. The challenge involved people pouring ice-cold water over their heads, posting video on social media, and donating funds for research […]

July 28, 2016

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Video: Jailers Restrained Inmate by Neck

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Caddo County Sheriff’s Office released video of an April incident in which an Oklahoma inmate was restrained by jail staff and died of strangulation. In the video obtained by The Oklahoman newspaper Monday, Darius Robinson, 41, appears to lunge toward jail staff before being tackled to the floor at Caddo County […]

July 28, 2016

NIH: $4 million for local partnership to help deaf postdocs

A local partnership to help advance research and teaching skills for deaf and hard-of hearing postdoctoral students got a big boost with the National Institutes of Health awarding a $4 million grant to this initiative. The funding goes to the Rochester Postdoc Partnership, which has served as a national model. Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who […]

July 28, 2016

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Nurse Shares Rape Facts with Team

WACO, Texas — A woman who said she was raped by two Oregon State football players and two other men in 1998 shared her story with the Baylor football team. Brenda Tracy’s talk with the Bears came two months after a 13-page report said Baylor failed to properly handle accusations of sexual assault, including some […]

July 28, 2016

House Panel Wants Shooter’s Medical Record

ST. MARYS, Kan. —The chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Veterans Affairs has requested all VA medical records for the former Marine who killed three law-enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Florida Rep. Jeff Miller sent a letter dated July 21 to the Department of Veterans Affairs requesting records for Gavin Long, an Iraq […]

July 28, 2016

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University of Pittsburgh Hospital Network Paying $2.5M to Settle Overbilling Claims

PITTSBURGH ― The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has paid $2.5 million to settle some claims in a federal whistleblower lawsuit accusing the hospital network of overbilling government insurance programs for neurosurgery. UPMC, Pennsylvania’s largest private employer with 60,000 workers, didn’t acknowledge wrongdoing in the settlement announced Wednesday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Pittsburgh. […]

July 27, 2016

Ghostbusters needed to show that black women can be scientists too

When the Ghostbusters reboot was announced, it was hailed as a victory for feminism. The film stars Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy as four women who save the world from an onslaught of ghosts, and I enjoyed it when I saw it. But it bothered me that while all the white […]

July 26, 2016

Medical schools must play a role in addressing racial disparities

In the wake of the brutal killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castille, Delrawn Small, and police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, America is confronting how its long history of racial injustice continues into the present. We must all address these wounds, including those of us in medicine. As medical students soon to be entrusted […]

July 26, 2016

Working long hours raises women’s risk of cancer, heart disease: study

Columbus, OH – Women who work long hours for most of their career are at a higher risk of developing cancer, heart disease and other chronic diseases, according to a study from Ohio State University. As part of the study, researchers used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 to examine 7,500 people […]

July 26, 2016

News from research organizations Increased prevalence of lupus in Non-Europeans has a genetic basis

Non-Europeans have a higher frequency of the gene variants that increase the risk of lupus as compared to the European population, a new study from researchers at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College London, has confirmed. The findings, which are published today in […]

July 26, 2016

Why Black Men Fear Any Police Encounter

Charles Kinsey held his hands in the air and shouted to police that the autistic man sitting on the street next to him wasn’t dangerous. A few seconds later, he felt a bullet rip into his leg. The therapist, who is black and works with people with disabilities, was rounding up a patient who had […]

July 26, 2016

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Jailed, Mentally Ill Rape Victim Sues Houston

HOUSTON —The 25-year-old rape victim, frightened and long-suffering from mental illness, agreed in December to testify against the Houston man who brutally assaulted her in 2013. She hoped to put him behind bars for life. But that decision to testify landed her in the Harris County jail for more than a month over the Christmas […]

July 26, 2016

Ohio Institutions Get $4.8M for Training

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Eighteen universities, medical schools and hospitals in Ohio have been awarded almost $4.8 million in federal funds as part of an effort to boost access to primary care. The workforce grants were recently announced by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration.Agency officials say the money will help fund education and training […]

July 26, 2016

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Legislators Knew Pot Law Had Flaws, Senator Says

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Some apparently unconstitutional portions of Ohio’s medical marijuana law, which set aside a percentage of the state’s pot licenses for minorities, were spotted during legislative debate but left in the bill to gain needed votes, a key lawmaker says. State Sen. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican, said legally prickly provisions exposed by […]

July 26, 2016

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Can super-sizing start with baby bottles?

As a country, we have a weight problem. A stunning two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese, putting them at risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and all the other health problems obesity brings. While there are myriad reasons we are getting fatter as a nation, one very real and simple one is that […]

July 21, 2016

Meet the Colorado doctor helping Hispanic families with Type 1 diabetes

The roads that led Dr. Andrea Gerard-Gonzalez to the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora weren’t all eight-lane expressways. A few of them weren’t even covered in asphalt. But each can be seen as a metaphor in the journey that brought her to Colorado, where she is making an […]

July 21, 2016

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