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Little Sex Ed, Stereotypes Could Lead to Health Risks, Family Planning Issues

Growing up, Jenely Sarette’s Filipino-American family didn’t talk about sex education, and when they did talk about sex, it was more of a warning than anything else. “In Asian-American families, including mine, sex isn’t talked about,” the 27-year-old Sarette told NBC News. “Rather, it’s more about instilling fear about sex. The only sex education I […]

June 23, 2016

Unequal Housework Could Be Damaging Women’s Health

We’ve long known that the way couples divide housework can have a serious impact on a woman’s career. For example, in her 2013 book Lean In, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg advises women that unless their partners pitch in with at least 50 percent of the housework and childcare, they may not advance as much as […]

June 23, 2016

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New For-profit Medical Schools Springing Up Across U.S.

BOISE, Idaho ― For-profit medical schools are starting to pop up around the country, promising to create new family doctors for underserved rural regions. Rural states like Idaho need more general practitioners, with the baby boom generation aging and expanded insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act making health care more accessible. But critics of […]

June 22, 2016

VA Takes Steps to Prevent Suicides

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. —When he was 6, police caught Kindall Johnson trying to cross Sunshine Street by himself. The Marine-obsessed child had discovered the recruitment office, then located in the Elfindale Center. His mother, Kathy Davis, seemed to enjoy sharing that memory. “One night I’m cooking dinner and there was a knock at the door. It […]

June 22, 2016

Delays Push Waiting Patients to Buy Illegal Marijuana

SANTA FE, N.M. — Delays in renewing medical marijuana cards in New Mexico have grown so long that some seriously ill patients are resorting to purchasing marijuana on the black market, according to some patients and advocates. The state Department of Health says the backlog was caused by a surge in demand from new applicants, […]

June 22, 2016

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1912 O’Neill Drama Relates to Opioid Crisis Today

NEW LONDON, Conn. — Change a few words and dress the characters in modern outfits, and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical masterpiece, could be about any of the dozens of local families today torn apart by opioid addiction. “It’s very relevant,” Jessica Lange, who last week won a Tony […]

June 22, 2016

Elderly on Opioids: 1 in 3 Got Them on Medicare

CHICAGO — Nearly 12 million Medicare beneficiaries received at least one prescription for an opioid painkiller last year at a cost of $4.1 billion, according to a federal report that shows how common the addictive drugs are in many older Americans’ medicine cabinets. With an overdose epidemic worsening, nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries received at […]

June 22, 2016

House Republicans Present Obamacare Alternatives

WASHINGTON —House Republicans are unveiling new proposals to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health care law, as Speaker Paul Ryan sought to showcase a GOP governing agenda amid the tumult of the presidential campaign. The plan, revealed Wednesday, (June 22) relies on individual tax credits to allow people to buy coverage from private insurers, […]

June 22, 2016

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For-Profit Medical Schools Offer Hope for Rural Areas

BOISE, Idaho —For-profit medical schools are starting to pop up around the country, promising to create new family doctors for underserved rural regions. Rural states like Idaho need more general practitioners, with the baby boom generation aging and expanded insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act making health care more accessible. But critics of the […]

June 22, 2016

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Orlando shooting sheds light on mental health disparities in Florida’s Latino community

Fernandez. Guerrero. Martinez. As the names of the victims in the Orlando shooting were announced, it quickly became clear that the traumatic event had disproportionately affected the city’s Latino community. Nearly all 49 victims killed at the Pulse gay nightclub, were Latino. Of those, 23 were Puerto Rican. “With Latinos, the fact that my neighbor’s […]

June 21, 2016

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Breastfeeding as a trans dad: ‘A baby doesn’t know what your pronouns are’

Giving birth to two children as a transgender man gave Trevor MacDonald rare insight into the manifold struggles of trans individuals – and in blogging about it he became the public voice of a long hidden conversation. MacDonald, soft-spoken and sporting a wispy goatee, was breastfeeding his first child at the time. He and his […]

June 21, 2016

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Study: 1 in 5 Trauma Deaths Could Be Avoided

WASHINGTON —Up to 1 in 5 deaths from car crashes, gunshots or other injuries might be prevented with better, quicker trauma care that doesn’t depend so much on where you live, according to government advisers —advice that takes on new urgency amid the increasing threat of mass casualties like the massacre in Orlando. The Orlando […]

June 20, 2016

Rescued Horses Will Help Veterans with PTSD

NIANTIC, Conn. After losing sight in his right eye from a 2013 rocket attack in Afghanistan, retired U.S. Army Maj. Dan Thomas recovered with help from an equine therapy program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Hoping to help other veterans, he and his wife traveled from their home in Alabama to Connecticut recently […]

June 20, 2016

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NC Program Helps Farmworkers Get Health insurance

DUNN, N.C. — Seasonal agricultural workers were just finishing a meal after a long day of planting sweet potato seeds when Julie Pittman pulled up to their camp. Pittman, a paralegal with the Farmworker Unit of Legal Aid of North Carolina, worked to get their attention. The health care law that passed in 2010 requires […]

June 20, 2016

Senate Hearing Examines Indian Health Service

RAPID CITY, S.D. — Tribal leaders and members of Congress demanded greater transparency and accountability from the federal agency responsible for providing health care to members of Native American tribes during a U.S. Senate committee hearing Friday (June 17) in western South Dakota. The field hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs focused […]

June 20, 2016

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Building On Obamacare To Battle Health Disparities

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) represents a landmark action toward reducing health disparities in a long and ongoing struggle to ensure that everyone in this country has an equal opportunity to be healthy. But much work needs to be done to ensure that access to quality health care in America is not only for the […]

June 16, 2016

The Challenges in Uncovering and Addressing Health Disparities Among Asian-Americans

Though they make up 5.6 percent of the US population, discussions about Asian-American health appear to be few and far between. According to the Asian-American Health Initiative, a variety of medical and public health scourges disproportionately affect the Asian-American community. Read More

June 16, 2016

The health disparities of being gay

The club Pulse, site of the biggest mass gun shooting in U.S. history, was named to honor one of the co-owner’s brothers, who succumbed to AIDS in 1991. In today’s Health Populi, I soberly ponder the lost lives in the Orlando massacre of people who joyfully convened in a safe haven to celebrate life, liberty, […]

June 16, 2016