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Section: Health

Striking University of Minnesota union suspends pickets after talks

MINNEAPOLIS There were signs of progress Friday in the negotiations between the University of Minnesota and its striking clerical and health care workers.

September 22, 2007

Ardent terminates OSU med center agreement

TULSA Okla. Ardent Health Systems has terminated the academic affiliation agreement between the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and the OSU Medical Center, which is owned by Ardent.

September 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

University of Minnesota workers suspend strike, weigh offer to end more than 2-week walkout

MINNEAPOLIS Clerical and health care workers at the University of Minnesota abandoned picket lines Friday and will vote on a contract offer that could end their more than two-week-long strike.

September 22, 2007

Families of college students grapple with privacy rules

For parents hoping to keep tabs on their college-bound kids this fall, schools have this advice: Get it in writing if you can.

September 19, 2007

In Brief: Bats Take Over Texas Southern Dorm

More than 200 TSU students evacuated; Black Manhattan Community College players allege racial attack; and ACE reports minority student college participation rate lags.

September 19, 2007

Duke University to help Chinese improve health care system

DURHAM N.C. Duke University is partnering with a major academic health center and hospital network in China to help it do a better job of serving its patients, the school said Wednesday.

September 18, 2007

UW-Madison gets $41M grant to take health research to the public

MADISON Wis. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive $41 million in the next five years to help it move medical discoveries from research labs to public practice.

September 18, 2007

Rabies Scare After Bats Invade Dorm

HOUSTON Bats took over a university dormitory, forcing more than 200 students into hotels and worrying health officials, who now fear the students could have been exposed to rabies.

September 18, 2007

$31 million federal research grant to Morehouse, others

ATLANTA A $31 million federal grant has been awarded to a group of Atlanta-area universities and medical organizations. It is one of a dozen such grants announced Tuesday, designed to better translate lab discoveries into patient treatments.

September 17, 2007

2 University of Arkansas Medical School residency programs on probation

LITTLE ROCK Two family medicine programs for training doctors that are operated by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences are on probation by an accrediting group for deficiencies in supervising doctors in training while they delivered babies and for weakness in continuing education for physicians.

September 16, 2007

Community Colleges

Aging population likely to mean need for more nurses

ASHEVILLE N.C. It was Cynthia Busche’s first day as a nurse in the Mission Hospitals emergency department, but she is no stranger to the nursing world.

September 16, 2007

5 University of Colorado Temps on Paid Leave for Background Check Following Stabbing

BOULDER, Colo. Five people hired at the University of Colorado through a mental-health agency were placed on paid leave for background checks Tuesday, after a former program participant was accused of attacking a student with a knife.

August 30, 2007

A Gift of Presidential Proportions

Nobody understood why Bruce King took a job at the University of South Dakota. But the decision may have saved his life.

August 22, 2007

Study: Overweight Kids Being Teased Out of an Education

A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University have found that obesity is linked to high absenteeism rates in school-aged children.

August 15, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Tulane gets almost $11 million for kidney, blood pressure work

NEW ORLEANS The National Institutes of Health has given Tulane University $11 million to continue research on kidney function and high blood pressure a major problem in Louisiana, and the principal cause of kidney failure.

August 14, 2007

Community Colleges

Texas community colleges mull tax hikes to make up for vetoed funding

AUSTIN Community college officials said they will have to consider property tax increases, tuition hikes and educational program cuts to compensate for $154 million in funds vetoed by Gov. Rick Perry.

August 14, 2007

Native Americans

Learning N.C. American Indian culture helps broaden horizons

ST. JAMES N.C. The flat coastal plain, punctuated by trailers and cornfields, offers few clues that this is the home of the Waccamaw-Siouans, a little-known American Indian tribe that has lived in southeastern North Carolina since the mid-1700s.

August 12, 2007

U.S. university donating medical supplies to Uganda

DURHAM North Carolina A neurosurgeon at an elite U.S. university has gathered several tons of medical equipment, some of which sat unused at the school’s medical facility, and is planning on donating it to a Ugandan hospital.

August 12, 2007