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Glitch Results in Pay Cuts for Public Health Workers

About 3,000 Public Health Service physicians and other workers saw their paychecks unexpectedly slashed last month because of government delays setting up a payment system Congress ordered a decade ago. “A number of unanticipated events impacted our ability to fully execute these provisions,” Surgeon General Jerome Adams told Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officers in […]

February 7, 2018

Brits Defend System After Tweet Attack

Prime Minister Theresa May and other British politicians defended this nation’s beloved, taxpayer-funded public health system Monday after President Trump said it was “going broke and not working.” May said she is “proud” of the National Health Service (NHS) after Trump said in a tweet that “thousands of people” in Britain were “marching about it.” […]

February 7, 2018

Drug Prices

President Trump announced during his State of the Union address that one of his greatest priorities is to reduce the price of prescription drugs. This is a topic that I have written about many times before, but in a limited fashion. Considering President Trump’s specific call to this issue, I thought a more thorough explanation […]

February 5, 2018

Sleepy? Might be Early Sign of Alzheimers’

Dozing off at work could be an early warning sign of Alzheimer’s disease, new research warns. People who dozed off or napped at inappropriate times, even if they got enough sleep, were more likely to have traces of the disease during their brain scans, according to the new study. Read More

February 5, 2018

California Senate Passes Bill to Have College Centers Dispense Abortion Pills

February 5, 2018

P.R. Med Center, Patients Say U.S. Underfunds Programs

MIAMI (CN) – A medical center in Puerto Rico and two of its patients claim in court that the Trump administration is underfunding the health care programs in the U.S. territory, placing nearly 1 million people at risk of losing their health care coverage. In a federal complaint filed Monday in Miami, the plaintiffs claim […]

February 5, 2018

Study: Omega 3 No Help for Heart Disease

Supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids, the oils abundant in fatty fish, are ineffective for the prevention of heart disease, a large review of randomized trials has found. The analysis, in JAMA Cardiology, pooled data from 10 randomized trials in people who had had cardiovascular disease or were at high risk for it. There were 77,917 […]

February 5, 2018

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#BellLetsTalk: Mental Health and Black People

The hashtag movement #BellLetsTalk emerged in 2010 as a segue to open up the conversation surrounding mental illness and to cease the stigma around individuals suffering from depression, anxiety, and other mental ailments. This is great except; the discussion is still a taboo in the Black community. The National Alliance on Mental Health reports that […]

February 5, 2018

Planned Parenthood Slams Rule on Moral Objections

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, is encouraging their supporters to tell the Department of Health Human Services (HHS) that a proposed rule to strengthen conscience protections for healthcare providers is “dangerous” and “encourages discrimination.” The rule requires health care providers to notify their employees of protections against religious discrimination on job applications and […]

February 5, 2018

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Half of Post-9/11 Vets Lack Mental Care

About half of U.S. veterans who served during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq don’t get the mental health care they need, according to a new report that recommends changes to improve the care delivered by the Veterans Affairs health system. While many veterans receive good mental health care through the VA , it’s inconsistent […]

February 5, 2018

Religious Freedom

On January 18, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the formation of a new “Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom within the HHS Office for Civil Rights. As the chief clinical officer at Howard Brown Health, the largest LGBTQ health care organization in the Midwest, I am alarmed by this assault on […]

February 1, 2018

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Wear Red for Heart Health Day

The American Heart Association is urging everyone to wear red on Friday to help shine a light on the number one killer of men and women — heart disease. “This is such a simple way to make a difference in our community. Every red heart, red ribbon or red dress in a store window reminds […]

February 1, 2018

Dr. Klasko: “Stop Waiting for Government”

Dr. Stephen Klasko currently serves as president and CEO of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health. He wears other hats as well. He has coauthored multiple books, including The Phantom Stethescope and We CAN Fix Healthcare: The Future Is Now. Klasko has another book — Bless This Mess: A Pictorial Primer for the […]

February 1, 2018

Medical School Expands Diversity Efforts

More than four years into a drive to diversify the medical school, officials say they are enrolling an increasing number of students from underrepresented backgrounds, but the percentage of racial minorities at the school has largely flatlined. After hiring its first diversity-focused administrator, medical school officials and faculty said the school has made a major […]

February 1, 2018

Federal Judge Wants to Settle Opioid Suits

The goal is impressive: Hammer out a legal deal that starts guiding the nation out of an epidemic of opioid addiction. How and when that can happen, if at all, is the subject of talks scheduled to begin Wednesday in a federal courthouse in Cleveland. The judge is bringing together lawyers for governments across the […]

February 1, 2018

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HHS Applauds Rollbacks, Other “Accomplishments”

A new report released by the Department of Health and Human Services highlights the greatest hits of the Trump administration in 2017, including its responses to the opioid crisis and the devastating hurricanes that hit Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, as well as regulatory rollbacks to reduce the burdens on providers. Read More

February 1, 2018

State of Union Touts End to Mandate

In his State of the Union address, President Trump seemed to attempt to declare victory in the Republican effort to eliminate Obamacare, stating that “we repealed the core” of it. But the Affordable Care Act, the law’s expansion of Medicaid benefits for the poor and subsidized private individual coverage known as Obamacare are still covering […]

February 1, 2018

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Healthcare Groups Welcome Alex Azar at HHS

HHS again has a permanent leader as former Eli Lilly executive Alex Azar was sworn in as the department’s secretary on Jan. 29—four months to the day after his predecessor, Tom Price, MD, resigned over his use of publicly-funded charter flights. Azar was sworn in at the White House by Vice President Mike Pence. In […]

February 1, 2018