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Predicting the Future of Obamacare

Negative leaders can deny change, resist it, ignore it – for a period of time. But they can’t escape it. And inevitably, they are eventually overtaken by it. Witness the current Trump dilemma. The leadership of the Republican party, following the defeat in the 2012 election, correctly acknowledged the demographic reality of a change in […]

October 12, 2016

Study Aims to Discover How Much Kids Move

AMHERST, Mass. —Two University of Massachusetts-Amherst researchers have received a $2.2 million federal grant to figure out just how much physical activity kids get. John Sirard, a kinesiologist, and John Staudenmayer, a statistician, plan to use the grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop methods for establishing more accurate assessments of physical activity […]

October 12, 2016

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Teen with Speech Disorder Discovers Acting

NAPLES, Fla. — Shakespeare’s lead female character in “Much Ado About Nothing” is talkative, witty and probably too sarcastic for her own good. “A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours,” Beatrice says. Memorizing and reciting the lines from the 16th century comedic play is a feat in itself. “Scratching could […]

October 12, 2016

Connecticut Hopes to Retain Medical Grads

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut officials, concerned that graduates of its medical schools are fleeing the state, are looking for ways to encourage those freshly minted doctors to remain. State Rep. Prasad Srinivasin, a board-certified allergist and the only physician in the General Assembly, said he’s worried Connecticut is losing both home-grown and out-of-state medical students […]

October 12, 2016

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Radio Encryption: New Danger for First Responders

HARTFORD, Conn.— Some police and fire departments are bucking a trend to conceal dispatch communications from the public, acknowledging that radio encryption has the potential to backfire and put first responders in danger. Agencies with digital radio systems have turned off the encryption to their main dispatching channels and others have decided not to turn […]

October 12, 2016

Reports Find Care at Native American Hospitals Substandard

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The internal watchdog of the Health and Human Services Department says the often substandard quality of care at hospitals serving Native Americans is the result of outdated equipment and technology, lack of resources, and difficulty attracting and keeping skilled staff. The Office of Inspector General on Friday released two reports that […]

October 12, 2016

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Veterans’ Applications Hidden In Storage Unit

RICHMOND, Va.— Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is seeking a criminal investigation after applications for veterans’ benefits were found in a storage unit belonging to a former state employee who was fired last year for mishandling records, officials said. Between 20 and 30 boxes of documents were recovered from the unit belonging to the ex-employee […]

October 12, 2016

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University Welcomes Students with Intellectual Disabilities

ELGIN, Ill. — What began in 2015 as a meeting of support between Judson alumnae Gayle Gianopulos ’88 and Nancy Binger ’97 – two mothers of children with Down syndrome – has transformed into an amazing journey. That journey has now launched a new program that will provide a collegiate experience at Judson University for […]

October 12, 2016

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Minority Men— Take Control of Your Health Needs

Disparities in health care often are thought to be the result of poverty and a related lack of access to quality health care. But clinical experience and research show that this is overly simplistic. In truth, the cause is a mix of issues that include genetics, living and working conditions, cultural obstacles with caregivers and […]

October 10, 2016

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Youth With Disabilities Get Internships

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A new on-campus internship program at Michigan State University aims to help young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities prepare for the workplace. Under the program, Spartan Project SEARCH, 10 students get on-the-job support as interns in offices, residence halls, cafes, doctor’s offices and animal clinics. Each of the interns, who […]

October 10, 2016

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Report Blames Agency in Neglect of Toddler

HARTFORD, Conn.— The state’s child advocate blames “the utter collapse of all safeguards” for the abuse and near-starvation of a toddler who was under the care of the Department of Children and Families. A scathing report by the Office of the Child Advocate, released October 4, outlines how the child welfare agency last year placed […]

October 10, 2016

Maryland Nursing Home Patients at Risk

BALTIMORE — In December, a 59-year-old woman who cannot speak after throat cancer surgery was left outside of a Baltimore homeless center with no money and no phone — in a city where she had no family and no close friends. Vonda Wagner of Rowlesburg, West Virginia, had fallen into a black hole in the […]

October 10, 2016

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Family Demands Charges in Shooting of Unstable Man

SACRAMENTO, Calif. —The family of a man killed in July by Sacramento police after 911 callers reported he was waving a knife and acting erratically demanded that two officers face murder charges after dash-cam video revealed they talked inside their police cruiser about running him down. Joseph Mann, who was mentally unstable and homeless, dodged […]

October 10, 2016

Tribe Lays Off 100 Health Care Workers

OKMULGEE,Okla. — Officials say the Muscogee (Creek) Nation has laid off more than 100 health care workers since October began. KTUL-TV reports that the workers are from the tribe’s six clinics and the home health program is slated to be phased out over time. In addition to the layoffs, 55 workers were transferred to other […]

October 10, 2016

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Phoenix VA Health Care System Improves

PHOENIX —Despite a new report raising serious questions about the quality of care within the Phoenix VA Health Care System, a top official in the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs says significant progress has been made. VA Undersecretary for Health David Shulkin addressed the VA Inspector General’s report while introducing a newly appointed director for […]

October 10, 2016

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Will People of Color Use the Aid in Dying Law?

Death was a topic that wasn’t discussed in Adrienne Lawson Thompson’s home growing up. The Los Angeles native says it was such a taboo topic, that her own mother didn’t even reveal what illness she was stricken with before she died. “She didn’t want to disclose things to me because ‘Oh, you’re young. I don’t […]

October 6, 2016

Drug May Help Reduce Alcohol Disorder

A new medication that targets part of the brain’s stress system may help reduce alcohol use in people with alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to a new study by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. “Medications have become an important tool for treating […]

October 5, 2016

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“Privacy Pods” Help Nursing Mothers

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — It’s a stand-alone, 4-by-8-foot pod that resembles a photo booth. The Durham Bulls have one, and now so does Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. LRMC earlier this month unveiled its first “lactation support pod” — the second at a U.S. military hospital and the first in Europe, hospital officials said — to give […]

October 5, 2016