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Section: Health
Disparities
Free Health Clinics Make a Comeback
After eight years of stagnant growth during Obamacare’s coverage expansion, free and charitable health clinics are experiencing a major growth spurt amid Republican efforts to slash health coverage for the poor. A safety-net health care provider for low-income Americans, the nation’s 1,200-plus free clinics typically are underfunded, understaffed and overwhelmed by an outsized mission that […]
June 19, 2017
Policies
Official Hopes Charges in Flint Will Restore Trust
FLINT, Mich. —In a battered city where many still refuse to bathe in tap water, much less drink it, the prosecution of officials accused of letting Flint’s public supply become contaminated with toxic lead and failing to warn of deadly bacteria represents a tentative step toward restoring trust in government. Still, the path ahead is […]
June 19, 2017
Other News
Trump: Republican Plan Too “Cold-Hearted”
President Trump has described a health care plan draft that the Republicans have been working on as ‘cold-hearted’ and ‘mean’. The Republicans have been drafting the proposal in secret and not much is known about it at all. All that the proposal makers will reveal is that they are overhauling the existing system completely, which […]
June 19, 2017
Policies
Secrecy Over Bill Frustrates GOP Senators
Senate Republican leaders are aiming to bring a major revision to the nation’s health-care laws to the Senate floor by the end of June even as lingering disagreements, particularly over Medicaid, threaten to derail their efforts, several Republicans familiar with the effort said Thursday. President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., are […]
June 19, 2017
Policies
At First Trump Opioid Summit, Advocates Plea for Medicaid Funds
WASHINGTON — Health advocates on Friday used the first meeting of President Trump’s commission on the opioid crisis to criticize a bill that would slash future Medicaid spending and deregulate the health insurance market, arguing that the legislation would undermine whatever progress the panel could make. “Medicaid is the largest national payer for addiction and […]
June 19, 2017
Students
Researchers Find Increased Pot Use by College Students
CORVALLIS, Ore. — A study by Oregon State University researchers has found college students at an undisclosed large public university in the state are using more marijuana since recreational pot became legal two years ago. The Register-Guard reports the researchers’ study was published Wednesday in a journal called Addiction. The study found increased use is […]
June 15, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Eradicating Polio
As former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we often view matters of public health through the lenses of our separate experiences and histories leading the world’s premier health agency. And because these matters are almost always complicated, both clinically and politically, our histories can lead us to different conclusions about what […]
June 14, 2017
Policies
Bill Would Let Pharmacists “Prescribe” Narcan
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s law to allow access to overdose-reversing medicine without a medical provider’s prescription is missing a key phrase that would actually allow the reform, according to the state’s attorney general’s office and mental health and addiction groups. The Senate, on Monday, and the House, last week, approved passage of a bill adding […]
June 14, 2017
Disparities
Roxane Gay’s Memoir: Journey into Obesity
At her heaviest, Roxane Gay weighed 577 pounds. In her powerful, at times harrowing, new memoir, “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,” Gay explains how she got that way and what it’s like to live “trapped in a cage.” It’s the story of a “carefree young girl … who felt safe in her body” until […]
June 14, 2017
Disparities
Shortage of Native American Doctors Raises Concern
PHOENIX — Dena Wilson never doubted what she wanted to do with her life while growing up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Her mother worked at the Indian Health Service as a social worker, and aside from a brief desire to be a bird in kindergarten, Wilson knew she wanted to […]
June 14, 2017
Disparities
Researchers Closer to Early Autism Diagnosis
Research shows that the roots of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) generally start early—most likely in the womb. That’s one more reason, on top of a large number of epidemiological studies, why current claims about the role of vaccines in causing autism can’t be right. But how early is ASD detectable? It’s a critical question, since […]
June 14, 2017
Policies
47 Counties Won’t Have Obamacare
Forty-seven counties are projected to have no Obamacare insurers next year and 1,200 could have only one, according to a new federal report. The map released Tuesday from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlined a county-by-county map of projected insurer participation in Obamacare. The report comes as the Senate is trying to work […]
June 14, 2017
Policies
Healthcare Groups Petition High Court on Travel Ban
A second U.S. Appeals Court has blocked President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, and already healthcare organizations are asking the Supreme Court not to issue a stay of the injunctions against it. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously on Monday to uphold a freeze on the travel ban, saying […]
June 14, 2017
Disparities
Study: Racial, Ethnic Minority People Get Less Care
America is a melting pot of diversity. Having the ability to meet people from any part of the world is one of America’s biggest assets and one that has made it into the country it is today. It is estimated that racial and ethnic minorities represent 28 percent of Americans, but according to a new […]
June 14, 2017
Students
University of Delaware Opens Concussion Clinic
NEWARK, Del. — A new clinic at the University of Delaware employs new research to tackle traumatic head injuries. The News Journal of Wilmington reports the university partnered with Christiana Care to create the STAR Health Concussion Clinic, which opened June 6. Center director Carolyn Haines says the clinic’s Newark location is designed to help […]
June 13, 2017
Faculty & Staff
Arkansas School Gets $11M for Infectious Disease Research
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency is awarding the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences an $11 million federal grant for research on infectious diseases. The grant is from an arm of the National Institutes of Health, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. It’s the second grant for a program […]
June 12, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Healthcare: What Puzzles Me Is……
Before we can adequately debate healthcare – at the state or national level – I think we have to figure out what are we talking about. I’m still puzzled about what we are buying. Is it a cooperative bulk-purchasing club for health services and medical goods, somewhat like Costco operates? Read More
June 12, 2017
Disparities
Valedictorian, Twin with Cerebral Palsy, Hopes to Fight Disease
Asked if there will be anything special about high school graduation, Lizbeth Gomez glances down and shyly shares, “I’ll be valedictorian.” After chatting with this 17-year-old senior for nearly two hours, it’s an astonishing accomplishment to reveal so late in an interview. But when you get to know Gomez, you come to understand that being […]
June 12, 2017
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