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Sugary Drinks Tax on Ballot in Bay Area

SAN FRANCISCO— The national fight over sugary soda is bubbling up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where voters in November will consider a tax on the drinks that many health experts say contribute to diabetes, obesity and tooth decay. Backers of the campaign say a penny-per-ounce tax is needed in San Francisco, Oakland and […]

October 3, 2016

Disabled Students Mistreated, Suits Claim

NASHVILLE, Tenn. When a 5-year-old autistic boy came home from his Nashville public school with bruises and a bite mark, his parents sent him back with a recording device. It captured a therapist slamming their son’s head on his desk, and a teacher using a martial arts technique that made him whimper and cry. Now […]

October 3, 2016

5 Strategies for Safe Opioid Treatment

CHICAGO, Sept. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) today released the second part of an interview with Thomas W. Frederickson, MD, FACP, SFHM, MBA – lead author of the Society of Hospital Medicine RADEO guide (“Reducing Adverse Drug Events Related to Opioids”). The guide is a comprehensive clinician manual […]

September 28, 2016

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Pipeline Poses Health Hazards for Sioux

The North Dakota Pipeline is an ongoing $3.7 billion project that could create 8,000-12,000 construction jobs. By carrying roughly 470,000 barrels of oil per day from the fields of North Dakota to Illinois, it has the potential to generate $156 million in sales and income taxes for local and state governments. Concern has arisen over […]

September 28, 2016

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NIH Launches Centers to Address Disparities

The Natinoal Institues of Health wants to get outside the vacuum. Where people live, work and play can influence the development and progress of crhnoic disease and conditions. So, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) is launching the Transdiciplinary Collaborative Centers for Health Disparities Research on Chronic Disease prevenetion program. Read […]

September 28, 2016

Vermont to Use New Medical Teaching Model

Inside Higher Ed reports on plans at the University of Vermont College of Medicine to revamp its academic approach, replacing traditional classroom lectures with video instruction and application-based learning with in-person “active learning” settings. The model follows a Stanford University-piloted program which suggested that medical training could be best delivered through a flipped classroom system, […]

September 28, 2016

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Most Depressed Adults May Be Untreated

Depression is a serious and common mood disorder. Signs and symptoms include feelings of hopelessness or pessimism; irritability; decreased energy or fatigue; loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities; difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions; and feelings of guilt, worthlessness, or helplessness. Major depression is typically treated with medications, psychotherapy, or a combination. […]

September 28, 2016

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Parents Channel Grief into Foundation

HARTFORD, Conn. — On the outside, Jordan Porco was a typical 18-year-old college freshman. He loved the outdoors. He snowboarded. He sought out new music, creating CDs and playlists and sharing them with his friends. So when Marisa Giarnella-Porco and her husband, Ernie Porco, received a call in February 2011 that their son had died […]

September 28, 2016

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Women Cross State Lines for Midwife Care

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — When Brianna Barker spots the big blue “Tennessee welcomes you” sign about an hour into her car trip, she breathes a little easier. Barker crosses the state line from Alabama to Tennessee every time she goes for a prenatal appointment. It’s the same welcome sign she’ll see in about a month, when […]

September 28, 2016

Parents Channel Grief of Son’s Suicide into Foundation

HARTFORD, Conn. ― On the outside, Jordan Porco was a typical 18-year-old college freshman. He loved the outdoors. He snowboarded. He sought out new music, creating CDs and playlists and sharing them with his friends. So when Marisa Giarnella-Porco and her then-husband Ernie Porco received a call in February 2011 that their son had died […]

September 26, 2016

NIH Awards $150 Million for Research on Environment and Child Health

The National Institutes of Health today announced $157 million in awards in fiscal year 2016 to launch a seven-year initiative called Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO). The ECHO program will investigate how exposure to a range of environmental factors in early development — from conception through early childhood — influences the health of […]

September 26, 2016

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Doctors Asked to Pledge to Fight Opiod Epidemic

Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A. (United States Surgeon General) sent a letter to US physicians about the impact that the opioid epidemic has had on communities and asks for their help: I am asking for your help to solve an urgent health crisis facing America: the opioid epidemic. Everywhere I travel, I see communities devastated […]

September 26, 2016

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Plans for Nebraska Nursing College Move Forward

In 2008, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents made a new medical center College of Nursing building in Lincoln its legislative priority. Then a deep recession took hold, and NU shelved the plans for a modern nursing training facility. Nearly a decade later, the program statement has been dusted off and the $20 million […]

September 26, 2016

IHS Chooses Provider for Telemedicine Services

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Indian Health Service has chosen a South Dakota-based health care system to provide telemedicine services to a network of 19 hospitals and clinics across the Great Plains in an effort to bolster the specialty care available to tribal members, some of whom currently have to travel long distances to receive […]

September 26, 2016

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Opioid Epidemic Hits Native Americans Hard

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. | American Indian tribal leaders from northern New Mexico — an area of the country devastated by heroin and opioid addiction — met with the U.S. Justice Department over ways to combat opioid abuse amid high overdose deaths among Native Americans. And both sides say much more needs to be done. Associate Deputy […]

September 26, 2016

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Doctor Alleging Racial Profiling Will Get Hearing

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses the University of Michigan of illegally firing an administrator who said black patients and visitors were victims of racial profiling at campus hospitals. Attorney James Fett says Judge Timothy Connors set a Dec. 5 trial date after hearing arguments September 22. […]

September 26, 2016

Delayed Care After Police Shootings Raises Questions

ATLANTA—Philando Castile. Eric Garner. And now Terence Crutcher. Each was a black man killed in a confrontation with an officer, with the aftermath captured on video. And each time, the video leaves the impression of a wounded man left to die alone, with no sense of urgency to try to save him. Law-enforcement experts say […]

September 26, 2016

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Stop Denying Poor Women Medical Care

Forty years ago this month, Congress passed the Hyde Amendment (named for the late Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde), which bans Medicaid coverage for abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the pregnant woman. In other words, Congress decided to limit health care for women struggling to make ends meet. […]

September 21, 2016