Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.
Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.
Subscribe
Students
Faculty & Staff
Leadership & Policy
Podcasts
Top 100
Advertise
Jobs
Shop
Search
Article
Podcast
Video
Awards/Honors
Community Colleges
Demographics
Faculty & Staff
Health
About Us
Authors
Blogs/Opinion
Campus Issues
Companies
Contact Us
COVID-19
Disparities
Faculty
Featured Jobs
Mental Health
Nursing
Other News
Policies
Premium Employers
Research
Resources
Technology
Top 100-Health & Medical Categories
Videos
Institutions
Leadership & Policy
Military
On the Move
Opinion
Sports
Students
Enter search phrase
Search
Section: Health
Other News
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
Disparities
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
Disparities
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
Nursing
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
Policies
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
Disparities
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
Blogs/Opinion
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
Other News
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
Other News
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
Disparities
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
Disparities
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
Policies
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
Disparities
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
Blogs/Opinion
Medical School Diversity Means Better Health Care Later
American medical schools are suffering from a severe case of economic and racial homogeneity, which is fueling physician shortages in vulnerable communities. Doctors are most likely to work in areas that share their demographics. White medical students from wealthy backgrounds tend to return to well-off, predominantly white locales to practice. Conversely, communities that produce few […]
August 29, 2016
Other News
NIH Research Project Address Health Disparities
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health, is launching the Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers (TCC) for Health Disparities Research on Chronic Disease Prevention program. This program responds to the need for more robust, ecological approaches to address chronic diseases among racial and ethnic minority groups, under-served […]
August 29, 2016
Other News
ADHD is Often Missed in Children of Color
While a higher percentage of black children show the symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than white kids, they are less likely to be diagnosed or treated for the disorder, researchers report. The new study showed a similar trend when it came to Hispanic children: They were as likely as their white peers to exhibit the […]
August 29, 2016
Policies
Grants Will Help Remove Lead in East Chicago Soil
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. — The state of Indiana is providing $200,000 to the city of East Chicago to help families living at a public housing complex where soil is tainted with elevated levels of lead and arsenic. The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority says its board approved the allocation of $100,000 to the East […]
August 29, 2016
Disparities
Brain Injuries Overlooked in Domestic Assaults
CHICAGO— There are no bomb blasts or collisions with burly linemen in Susan Contreras’ past. Her headaches, memory loss and bouts of confused thinking were a mystery until doctors suggested a probable cause: domestic violence. A former partner repeatedly beat her, she says. “He would hit me mainly in the head so that nobody would […]
August 29, 2016
Previous Page
Next Page
