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Cuba Reports Success in Controlling Zika Virus

HAVANA — Six months after President Raul Castro declared war on the Zika virus in Cuba, a militarized nationwide campaign of intensive mosquito spraying, monitoring and quarantine appears to be working. Cuba is among the few countries in the Western Hemisphere that have so far prevented significant spread of the disease blamed for birth defects […]

September 7, 2016

Judges Blasts Denial of Medication in Mumia Abu-Jamal Case

PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Pennsylvania has blasted a prison policy that denies former death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal and others an expensive hepatitis C drug until they have advanced liver damage. U.S. District Judge Robert Mariani said the policy amounts to “conscious disregard” for the inmates’ health, but noted that prisons, Medicaid officials and […]

September 7, 2016

How Health Systems Can Tackle Disparities

After more than a decade asking why factors such as race, ethnicity, income, gender and sexual orientation often correlate with poorer health and health care quality for so many Americans, perhaps the biggest question is what can health care providers do about it. After more than a decade of asking why factors such as race, […]

September 2, 2016

Top Nursing Academics Will Be Honored

Professor Hester Klopper and Professor John Daly will be joining students completing their studies in ceremonies on 2-3 September. Professor Hester Klopper, deputy vice-chancellor of strategic initiatives and internationalisation at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, has an interest in the role nurses play in influencing global health policy and strengthening healthcare systems. Her current research […]

September 2, 2016

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Shooting Death at Nursing Home Under Investigation

SALEM — State police assigned to the Essex District Attorney’s Office and Salem detectives are investigating the death of an 81-year-old resident of the Grosvenor Park Health Center in Vinnin Square after he reportedly used a handgun to shoot and kill himself on Friday night, according to Salem police Capt. Conrad Prosniewski and Essex District […]

September 2, 2016

GW Resident Alleges Bias in Dismissal

A former resident at George Washington University Hospital sued the university last month, alleging that she was dismissed because she had cancer. Stephanie Waggel started as a psychiatry resident at George Washington in the summer of 2014, her lawsuit says. In the spring of 2015, she was diagnosed with kidney cancer, and, after she informed […]

September 2, 2016

Clients Find Purpose at Recovery Center

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — In 2013, Elizabeth Torres, then 47, stared at a bag of crack and a small bundle of bills. For the longtime drug addict, it might have been a relaxed day. She had drugs, money, and she wasn’t even homeless- depending on your definition of a home. But she didn’t want the drugs. […]

September 2, 2016

VA: Ex-Marine Who Killed 3 Did Not Have PTSD

WICHITA, Kan. — A former Marine who ambushed and killed three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers last month never saw combat in Iraq, but told doctors he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder because a buddy showed him videos of maimed and decapitated bodies, according to newly released Veterans Health Administration medical records. Gavin Long’s doctors […]

September 2, 2016

Death Penalty Under Study in Killing of Nuns Who Were Nurses

DURANT, Miss. — A Mississippi prosecutor said she hasn’t decided whether to seek the death penalty for a man charged with killing two nuns who dedicated their lives to helping people in one of the poorest counties in the nation. Relatives and colleagues of Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill have publicly expressed their opposition […]

September 2, 2016

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Parents, Coaches Try to Recognize Brain Injury

MORTON, Ill.— More than 100 8- to 14-year-olds flooded the fields at Southwood Park to complete what looked a lot like field sobriety tests: touching their fingers to their noses, walking a straight line toe to heel and reciting the months of the year backward. “What we’re doing here today, we are actually assessing brain […]

September 2, 2016

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Program Seeks to Diversify Physicians in Omaha

OMAHA, Neb. — Two local University of Nebraska institutions have teamed up to create a program to diversify Omaha’s physician population. The Urban Health Opportunities Program will provide tuition and other benefits to undergraduate students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha who want to be doctors in Omaha, particularly in the northeast and southeast […]

September 2, 2016

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The Rural Blog: Heroin Overdoses Raise Concern Drugs Came From Same Batch

A rash of heroin overdoses reported in the last two weeks in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia, has officials concerned the drugs came from the same batch, “likely mixed with either fentanyl or carfentanil,” Harrison Jacobs reports for Business Insider. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, “is 80 to 100 times as powerful as morphine and […]

August 31, 2016

Asheville, NC, Plans $433,000 Disparities Initiative

ASHEVILLE – Race hasn’t always been at the forefront of city politics, but now local and national events have pushed the issue into public view – and city officials say they intend to keep it there with an ambitious $433,000 initiative. The City Council is set to review a plan for a $350,000 racial disparity […]

August 31, 2016

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Indiana Teen’s Racial Disparities Project Is a $10,000 Winner

CROWN POINT — A Crown Point teen is the only student in Indiana among a prestigious group of teenagers across the country to be named a 2016 Davidson Fellow, which netted her a $10,000 scholarship. Justine Izah, who will be 18 on Wednesday, won a Davidson Fellows Scholarship for her project, “An Examination of Black […]

August 31, 2016

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Panel: Screening for Kids in Montana Could Prevent Suicides

HELENA, Mont. —A panel seeking ways to fix Montana’s highest-in-the-nation suicide rate is recommending mandatory depression screening of all schoolchildren beginning at age 11 and programs teaching coping skills to kids as young as 6. Preventing suicide and lifting the stigma of depression is a slow process that will require a cultural shift that begins […]

August 31, 2016

Med Student Learns With Team That Treated Him

ST. LOUIS —Luke Weaver knew from a very young age he wanted to be a doctor. He just didn’t realize how much experience he would have with hospitals before ever reaching medical school. When the Belleville native was 15 years old, he started feeling very sick. Initially, doctors thought he had a sinus infection or […]

August 31, 2016

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Officials: Utah Health Plans Affordable Despite Increases

SALT LAKE CITY — As consumers in Utah and around the country are expected to see higher health insurance premiums and fewer choices next year under President Barack Obama’s health law, the White House says rates will still be relatively inexpensive for most Utah consumers. If rates for all health plans available on the federally […]

August 31, 2016

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Canada’s Switched-At-Birth Case Raises Questions

WINNIPEG, Manitoba— The Canadian government is setting up an independent investigation after DNA evidence indicated two men from a northern Manitoba indigenous community were switched at birth. David Tait Jr. was born three days after Leon Swanson in the winter of 1975 at the Norway House Indian Hospital in the western Canadian province. For years, […]

August 31, 2016

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