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“Size Diversity” Matters in Health Care

Practicing medicine, especially naturopathic medicine, in a weight-obsessed culture can be tricky. Food and movement are two of the most powerful tools I have to help my patients feel better, but how do I apply those tools in a culture so obsessed with diet and exercise as a means to an end (get skinnier) rather […]

October 26, 2016

Kansas Wesleyan Denied Accreditation for Nursing

SALINA — Kansas Wesleyan University is trying to decide what to do after getting more bad news about its nursing program. Most recently, the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education rejected the school’s application for voluntary accreditation, The Salina Journal ( http://bit.ly/2dT0shA ) reported. The small private university was notified last week and shared the news […]

October 26, 2016

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$1.5M gift Will Fund Nursing Chair

EAST LANSING, Mich. — McLaren Greater Lansing has made a $1.5 million gift to Michigan State University to establish the College of Nursing’s first endowed chair position. The East Lansing school said that the donation to help create the Endowed Chair for Behavioral Mental Health Nursing Education is the second largest gift ever given to […]

October 26, 2016

One-Fourth of Cancer Deaths Linked to Smoking

CHICAGO — Cigarettes contribute to more than 1 in 4 cancer deaths in the U.S. The rate is highest among men in Southern states where smoking is more common and the rules against it are not as strict. The American Cancer Society study found the highest rate among men in Arkansas, where 40 percent of […]

October 26, 2016

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Race, Ethnicity Factor in Hospital Readmissions

SAN FRANCISCO — Among children hospitalized with asthma or diabetes, non-Hispanic black patients have the highest rates of readmission, while readmission rates among those hospitalized with seizure or migraine are highest among non-Hispanic whites, according to data presented at the 2016 AAP National Conference and Exhibition. “Preventing hospital readmissions continues to be a key aim […]

October 26, 2016

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ASU, Mayo Clinic Team Up for New Medical School

PHOENIX —The Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University are teaming up to offer a medical certificate program. Students attending the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, which will open next summer, will simultaneously complete an ASU and Mayo Clinic certificate program in the science of health-care delivery as part of the Mayo Clinic and ASU Alliance […]

October 26, 2016

University of Washington Gets $210M from Gates Foundation

SEATTLE ― The University of Washington is getting $210 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help build a new facility to advance efforts to improve the health and well-being of people around the world, officials said Tuesday. The donation from the largest private foundation in the world, located just miles from the […]

October 25, 2016

Harvard Students Lead Sit-in to Back Striking Dining Workers

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ― Students at Harvard University are staging a campus sit-in to support the school’s striking cafeteria workers. Dozens of students walked out of classes on Monday and marched to a nearby building where Harvard officials and a labor union for campus dining workers have been in negotiations. The students said they refuse to […]

October 24, 2016

Classes Resume at 14 Pennsylvania-owned Universities

HARRISBURG, Pa. ― Classes have resumed for more than 100,000 students who attend Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities. Classes resumed Monday after the union representing more than 5,000 faculty members and coaches reached a tentative contract agreement Friday with the State System of Higher Education. The new contract provides raises for all employees but also requires […]

October 24, 2016

WHY IT MATTERS: Veterans

WASHINGTON—THE ISSUE: There are an estimated 21.6 million veterans in the United States. Among them, nearly 9 million are enrolled in health care provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs. About 4.3 million veterans get disability compensation from the VA and nearly 900,000 have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. A 2014 law signed by […]

October 24, 2016

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UM Creates Nursing School at Flint Campus

FLINT — The University of Michigan is creating a School of Nursing at its Flint campus, effective Nov. 1. The Flint campus has a department of nursing in the School of Health Professions and Studies. Nursing now will stand on its own. The university says more than 19 percent of students in Flint study nursing […]

October 24, 2016

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Feds Look Into Claim of Secret VA Wait Lists

DENVER — Government investigators said they are looking into allegations that Department of Veterans Affairs employees in Colorado kept unofficial lists of veterans waiting for health care that could conceal how long it takes to get an appointment, possibly broadening a nationwide scandal. The VA’s internal watchdog announced an audit in a letter October 19 […]

October 24, 2016

Grant Aims to Increase Trust Native Americans in Care

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Juliet McMullin, an associate professor of clinical sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, has received a grant of $250,000 from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to lay the groundwork for providers and Native American patients in the Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., area to address patient […]

October 24, 2016

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IHS Nearly Doubles Grants for Meth and Suicide Prevention

The Indian Health Service has almost doubled the number of grants for meth and suicide prevention among youth in American Indian communities with the announcement of 42 new awards to support President Obama’s Generation Indigenous Initiative. The 2016 Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Initiative (MSPI) funding, worth more than $7 million, will go to tribes, tribal […]

October 24, 2016

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Pitt Leads $90M Effort to Improve Trauma Care

PITTSBURGH —The University of Pittsburgh is set to lead a nationwide effort to improve treatment of trauma injuries that will be funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that the university’s Schools of the Health Sciences will lead the $90 million effort under a defense contract. The first step will be […]

October 24, 2016

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Paramedics in Short Supply in Arkansas

BENTONVILLE, Ark.— A mock-up of an ambulance filled one corner of the classroom and simulated hospital rooms took up the opposite wall, but Grant Wilson’s students one recent morning were focused on the 3-inch-thick books in front of them simply labeled “Paramedic Textbook.” That day’s chapter was on toxicology, dealing with every variety of poison […]

October 24, 2016

Herschel Walker: Ask for Help

GROTON, Conn.— There’s Herschel Walker the former professional football player. The Heisman trophy winner. The bobsledder. The mixed martial artist. The founder of one of the largest minority-owned chicken companies in the U.S. The board member of a publicly traded company. “This is coming from a guy who went out and got help,” Walker, 54, […]

October 24, 2016

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Faculty & Staff

Faculty Members at 14 Pennsylvania Universities on Strike

The strike by the union, which represents 5,000 faculty and coaches, could potentially disrupt the school year of 100,000 students at 14 universities.

October 19, 2016