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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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Things That Cost More Than Transgender Care

President Donald Trump on Wednesday cited “tremendous medical costs” as one of the reasons he will no longer allow transgender people to serve in the U.S. military. Since the 2016 Pentagon decision that allowed trans people to openly serve in the military, health care costs have risen by between $2.4 million and $8.4 million a […]

July 31, 2017

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General: No Official Act, No Change on Transgender Troops

The nation’s senior military officer said Thursday that there will be “no modifications” to Pentagon policies for now despite President Trump social media posts declaring a ban on transgender troops in uniform. Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote in a memo to commanders and senior enlisted leaders of the […]

July 31, 2017

He’s No Hero

Today, John McCain is doing something “heroic” or “tough” or “badass,” according to a certain echo chamber of political pundits with short memories. After recently being diagnosed with brain cancer, one of a series of ailments that have plagued McCain over the years, he’s decided that today’s health care vote is so important that he […]

July 26, 2017

Repeal Would Hurt Students with Disabilities

On the eastern end of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Rachel Fuerer’s school district depends on more than $870,000 in Medicaid funds each year. About 5 percent of its overall annual budget, the money goes toward providing medical services for more than 1,000 special education students in 19 public schools across 4,000 square miles. Those dollars, though, […]

July 26, 2017

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Uninsured, Rural, & Poor Line Up for Care in Tents

WISE, Va. — Anthony Marino, 54, reached into his car trunk to show a pair of needle-nosed pliers like the ones he used to yank out a rotting tooth. Shirley Akers, 58, clutched a list of 20 medications she takes, before settling down to a sleepless night in the cab of a pickup truck. Robin […]

July 26, 2017

Digital Therapeutics: App-Based Healthcare Is the Future

Last month, healthcare startup Omada Health secured a $50 million C round led by major insurer Cigna, which brings the 5-year-old company’s total funding to over $127 million. That kind of nine-figure investment isn’t unusual for a company with the next blockbuster drug or game changing medical device, but Omada’s core product is a diabetes-preventing […]

July 26, 2017

Blackfeet Share Tribal Stories to Enhance Health

By the neon light of glow sticks, Kevin KickingWoman and others shared traditional stories of the Blackfeet tribe at Blue Mountain last week. He told the story of how the Blackfeet learned their sun dance. Others shared stories they had told their children growing up. Everyone in the circle was given a chance to speak […]

July 26, 2017

Black Elderly Stroll Familiar Paths to Stall Dementia

Sharon Steen dons her tennis shoes and, with two fellow seniors, walks streets that in her youth were a vibrant center of Portland, Oregon’s African-American community. Wasn’t this the corner where an NAACP march began in 1963? Look, the record store is now a fancy high-rise. It’s more than a stroll down memory lane. Steen […]

July 26, 2017

Senate Starts New Round on Repeal Votes

Senate Republicans forged ahead Wednesday with proposals aimed at revamping the Affordable Care Act, hoping to produce some sort of legislation that could garner enough support to serve as the basis of negotiations with the House. But after they won a key procedural victory with the help of Vice President Pence’s tiebreaking vote Tuesday, it […]

July 26, 2017

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110 Out of 111 N.F.L. Brains Studied Show Damage

Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist, has examined the brains of 202 deceased football players. A broad survey of her findings was published on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Of the 202 players, 111 of them played in the N.F.L. — and 110 of those were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, […]

July 26, 2017

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New Program: Centenary College to Baylor Nursing School

SHREVEPORT, La. — Centenary College says a new program helps science graduates enter a one-year program at Baylor University’s nursing school. Representatives from the schools in Shreveport and Dallas signed the agreement last week. Centenary spokeswoman Kate Pedrotty says students who graduate with all of the courses required to get into Baylor’s FastBacc program will […]

July 25, 2017

‘I Didn’t Come to Washington to Hurt People’

I must start this column with the powerful statement that Sen. Shelly Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) made in explaining why she would not go along with her party leadership and vote to repeal ObamaCare without a replacement. She simply said, “I did not come to Washington to hurt people.” Read More

July 24, 2017

Latinos Sue California Over Healthcare Gaps

California is harming medical care for more than 13 million lower-income residents, more than half of them Latinos, by failing to pay doctors enough to provide proper care, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The lawsuit alleges the state violates Latinos’ civil rights because poorly paid health care providers balk at providing treatment. Read More

July 24, 2017