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Transgender Youth Diagnosed More Often as Mentally Ill

We know that transgender and gender non-conforming people are at an increased risk of many things, including discrimination and violence. And the same is true for transgender and gender non-conforming young people. Past research has shown that this bias can lead to higher rates of mental illness among transgender students compared to their cisgender peers. A new Kaiser Permanente study takes […]

April 23, 2018

Transgender Mental Illness

As Opioid Deaths Spike, Minority Faith Leaders Issue Call to Action

The Rev. L.C. Ray admittedly knew little of the region’s opioid crisis before his WNC Baptist Fellowship Church congregation asked him last year how they could raise awareness about of an epidemic killing an average of four people a day in North Carolina. The Rev. L.C. Ray admittedly knew little of the region’s opioid crisis before his WNC Baptist Fellowship Church congregation asked him […]

April 23, 2018

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Some Regions Lag in Preparedness

An annual assessment of the nation’s day-to-day readiness for managing health emergencies improved significantly over the past five years, though deep regional differences remain. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released the 2018 National Health Security Preparedness Index, which found the United States scored a 7.1 on a 10-point scale for preparedness—nearly a 3 percent […]

April 23, 2018

Dr. Keith C. Ferdinand: Eliminating Cardiac Disparities

Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, professor of medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine, Tulane Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans. He focuses largely on cardiac risk factor evaluation and control, especially hypertension and hyperlipidemia, including communities of racial and ethnic minorities. I move medicine by a combination of direct patient care and teaching the […]

April 23, 2018

Keith Ferdinand

Med Center’s Approach Improves Blood Pressure Results for Blacks, Hispanics

Serving a population made up largely of African-American and Hispanic patients, a Miami primary care and multispecialty group saw the same racial and ethnic health disparities in hypertension that are rampant in the American population at large. But the team at Doctor’s Medical Center (DMC) was able to secure a 16 percent improvement in its […]

April 23, 2018

Blood Pressure Improvements

Judge Rules Against HHS on Ending Teen Pregnancy Program

A federal judge in D.C. ruled Thursday that the Trump administration’s cut to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program were unlawful. Last summer, the administration notified 81 organizations that their five-year grants through the program would end in 2018, rather than in 2020, prompting multiple lawsuits. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled in one of those cases […]

April 23, 2018

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Stress and Overtraining Can Derail Your Workouts

Overtraining is rooted in stress and can sabotage your workouts. To avoid overtraining and get the most out of your workout, you must balance the stress of working out with the other stress in your life.

April 19, 2018

Pro-Life Violence

How many terrorist attacks have taken place on American soil over the last 40 years? The real answer is almost certainly larger and far sadder than you think. According to the National Abortion Federation, community health centers and abortion providers have witnessed the following atrocities since 1977: 655 anthrax threats 383 general death threats 373 property […]

April 18, 2018

Planned Parenthood

Doctors Call for Action on Social Determinants

The American College of Physicians (ACP) released a set of 9 recommendations today meant to address social determinants of health (SDOH) in order to improve patient care and health outcomes that are negatively impacted by the conditions in the United States under which patients live, grow, and work.1 However, in an accompanying editorial, 2 physicians wrote […]

April 18, 2018

Pow-Wow Connects Community to Health Providers

Speaking over the sound of powwow drums, UW-Madison pharmacy student Kym Ludwig compared the sugar contents in different energy drinks and helped administer free diabetes risk tests to Wunk Sheek Spring Powwow guests at an informational booth tucked between indigenous food vendors and stalls selling beaded jewelry. Ludwig, who is also a member of the Native […]

April 18, 2018

PowWow Community

Teaching Hospitals Pledge to Treat, Hire Blacks, Latinos

Two of Boston’s top teaching hospitals said they are expanding efforts to hire more black and Latino doctors, and to ensure their facilities are welcoming to minorities they treat — an attempt to address two longstanding issues in the health care industry. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of the nation’s leading cancer centers, plans to hire a […]

April 18, 2018

Teaching Hospitals

Fort Drum Area Models Private Care for Veterans

The thought of privatizing their government health care worries many veterans. John Lambert, chairman of the North Country Veterans Advisory Committee, discussed a distressing report during the organization’s April 5 meeting. Prepared by the Rand Corps., the study indicates that physicians not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are not as familiar with […]

April 18, 2018

Fort Drum Private Care

Pancreatitis in Minority Groups Linked to Triglycerides, Alcohol, Gallstones

Pancreatitis in ethnic minorities is linked to very severe levels of triglycerides and the risk is further increased by alcohol abuse and gallstones, a study has found. Loyola Medicine gastroenterologist Ayokunle Abegunde, MD, is a co-author of the study, published online ahead of print in the journal Endocrine Practice. Pancreatitis is inflammation in the pancreas, a […]

April 18, 2018

Pancreatitis in Minority Groups

Trade Group: Short-Term Plan’s Impact Underestimated

The Trump Administration has underestimated the impact short-term limited duration insurance plans would have on the Affordable Care Act market, according to a study commissioned by the Associated for Community Affiliated Plans. While the White House projected that its short-term plans would decrease enrollment in Healthcare.gov by 100,000 to 200,000 ACA consumers in 2019, the […]

April 18, 2018

Blue States Fight Dismantling of ACA

Despite attempts by the Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, blue states are fighting back to prop up the 2010 law. New Jersey is nearly set to implement its own individual mandate for health care coverage after congress rolled back the requirement at the federal level. The New Jersey Health […]

April 18, 2018

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Blacks Much Less Likely to Take Part in Health Research Studies

Racial and ethnic minorities, especially African-Americans, are significantly less likely to participate in health-related research than Whites, according to a new study from Ball State University. The lack of participation impedes the testing, development, implementation and evaluation of various clinical and community-based disease-prevention and health-promotion interventions, said Dr. Jagdish Khubchandani, a community health education professor […]

April 16, 2018

Health Research Studies

Treating Alzheimer’s

I’m envious. One of my medical school classmates climbed a mountain with his patient, and not just any mountain. Dr. Malcolm Bilimoria, a surgical oncologist, and Ken Brown, “a survivor of adenocarcinoma of the pancreas,” ascended the 19,341-foot Mount Kilimanjaro. That’s right. Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. I’m envious because none of my […]

April 16, 2018

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Meal Delivery to Needy Saves Healthcare Costs, Report Says

Imagine you are the tightfisted potentate of a small republic, plotting the least expensive way to care for subjects in fragile health who depend on your beneficence. You could watch while your subjects who are elderly or disabled (or both) scramble to find and pay for healthy meals. And you could open your checkbook each […]

April 16, 2018