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Healthcare Plan, Patients in Limbo

Under the crisp midday sun in the hills of rural West Virginia, the Myers family pile out of their tired, red pick-up truck in the car park of the Cabin Creek Health Centre. “A couple of them had the flu and this one had an allergic reaction and we can’t figure out what it is […]

April 3, 2017

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Opioid Epidemic Exposes Racial Disparities

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The circle of patients gathered for group therapy at a doctor’s family practice in McKenzie could well represent the face of the state’s opioid epidemic. They were in a small city in a rural county, fertile ground for prescription drug addiction, though they traveled from as far as Nashville and Missouri. They […]

April 3, 2017

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N.J. Bills Seek Tax Credit for Organ Donors

TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey lawmaker wants to offer tax credits to organ donors, but his no-strings approach is meeting opposition from groups who believe the practice runs afoul of federal law. While the National Organ Transplant Act makes it illegal for hospitals to pay for organs, 19 states provide either a tax credit […]

April 2, 2017

Trump’s Attack on The Poor

Obamacare will be the law of the land for the “foreseeable future”, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, admitted in the aftermath of the abject failure of Donald Trump or the Republican party to “repeal or replace” Obama’s flagship Affordable Care Act (ACA) after seven years of bleating about it. The […]

March 29, 2017

Gene Sequencing Project Will Focus on Latinos

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Sanford Health, one of the largest health systems in the country, is partnering with the flagship hospital of the Miami Children’s Health System to sequence the genes of nearly 1,000 Latinos and Hispanics to better understand the health needs of the populations. Philanthropist Denny Sanford and Sanford Health have given $7 […]

March 29, 2017

Efforts to Prevent Teen Births Continue

WHITINSVILLE – Jocelyn Arriaga was ready for college. In fall 2012, the recent Douglas High School graduate had picked out her classes at Quinsigamond Community College in anticipation of starting her first semester in the spring. That was before an unexpected pregnancy upended her plans. Instead of college, the Whitinsville resident became one of the […]

March 29, 2017

School Nurses Try to Curb LGBT Suicides

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers in New Mexico, California and Maryland are working with public school nurses in hopes of curbing suicide rates within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by making school grounds safer. University of New Mexico pediatrics professor Mary Ramos and colleagues at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation and the […]

March 29, 2017

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Bill Would Raise Pay for Health Aides

AUGUSTA, Maine — Advocates say that a Republican’s bill would help the state address a looming shortage of home health care workers. Assistant House Minority Leader Ellie Espling’s bill would direct the state Department of Health and Human Services to increase reimbursement rates for home-based care services. Her bill is set for a public hearing […]

March 29, 2017

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Bill Tells Colleges to Stock Abortive Pills

A new bill might allow students at California’s public universities and colleges to receive medical abortion pills at student health centers, NBC4’s media partner KPCC reports. The bill — currently in the California legislature — would require all public universities and community colleges in the state to provide the pregnancy-ending pills. A medical abortion ends […]

March 29, 2017

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Budget Cuts Protections for Medical Errors

Headlines such as “Republicans Pan Trump Budget” and “Donald Trump’s Budget Is Universally Unloved” have suggested that identifying problems with President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget has been like pointing out wet spots on the Titanic. For example, a chorus along the political spectrum have criticized the proposed drastic National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget […]

March 29, 2017

Failure Could Signal Radical Change

Friday’s stunning defeat of the long-awaited GOP healthcare bill sent a deafening wake up call to President Donald Trump, who immediately told reporters his campaign promise failure was a learning experience. The new president, who spent the majority of his weekends at the private luxury Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida during his first months in office, […]

March 29, 2017

GOP Hopes to Revive Health Bill

House Republicans struck an optimistic note Tuesday that they would be able to salvage their failed health-care bill, but there was little indication of any concrete shift in the political fundamentals that led to its failure. Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters that “some of those who were in the ‘no’ camp expressed a […]

March 29, 2017

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Project Aims to Help School Nurses Tackle Suicide Rates

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers in New Mexico, California and Maryland are working with public school nurses in hopes of curbing suicide rates within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by making school grounds safer. University of New Mexico pediatrics professor Mary Ramos and colleagues at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation and the […]

March 28, 2017

The Stupidity of Killing Biomedical Research

Donald Trump proposed a budget this week that will cut funding to NIH by nearly $6 billion, or 20% of its $31 billion budget. A cut of this magnitude would be devastating for biomedical research, and for the health of the nation. This is colossally short-sighted, stupid and even cruel. The U.S. budget this year […]

March 28, 2017

California Woman Lobbies for Safer Nail Salons

OAKLAND, Calif. — It was the swag-bags that convinced community health organizer Julia Liou to redraw the battle plan in a fight to reduce the hazardous chemical exposures of nail-salon workers, most of them low-paid Asian immigrant women. In 2005, Liou watched at California’s state Capitol as dozens of lobbyists gave away bags of lipsticks […]

March 28, 2017

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Now Hear This: Noise Poses Danger

NEW YORK — Matt Garlock has trouble making out what his friends say in loud bars, but when he got a hearing test, the result was normal. Recent research may have found an explanation for problems like his, something called “hidden hearing loss.” Scientists have been finding evidence that loud noise — from rock concerts, […]

March 28, 2017

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Lawmakers Debate Fetal Tissue Ban

MADISON, Wis. — Republican Wisconsin lawmakers who for years have sought to ban the use of aborted fetal tissue in the state are now bickering among themselves over what to do. Two GOP factions have formed in the Legislature. One supports banning the use of aborted fetal tissue outright— an approach that has the backing […]

March 28, 2017

Brigham Young Students Discuss Mental Health

PROVO, Utah — It’s not unusual for students at Brigham Young University to blame themselves for their mental health struggles. “Sometimes, the conception is, ‘I wouldn’t be struggling with my mental health if I were praying harder, or if I were doing everything perfectly the way I was supposed to be doing,’” Brooke Adams, a […]

March 28, 2017

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