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Section: Health
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OSU Health Systems Celebrates New Location
The Oklahoma State University Center for Health Systems Innovation celebrated the grand opening of its new location on Friday. The center, a joint venture between the OSU Spears School of Business in Stillwater and the OSU Center for Health Sciences, is now housed in the Cyntergy Building at 810 S. Cincinnati Ave. “We are bringing […]
November 14, 2016
Disparities
FSU Recruits Black Caregivers for Project
Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are tough on patients but also on caregivers, especially African-Americans. Now Rob Glueckauf, a Florida State University College of Medicine professor, and his health-service team are offering a new approach that they hope will benefit numerous caregivers. And it’s free. His three-year project is called ACTS 2 (African-American Alzheimer’s Caregiver […]
November 14, 2016
Disparities
Firms Help Native Americans Grow Cannabis
Native American tribes are often recognized for their success within the casino business and the tobacco industry. Over the past decade, as cannabis has become more accepted as a medical treatment, the industry has grown exponentially. In some places, where legal recreational cannabis use exists, there have been fears of the market flooding with all […]
November 14, 2016
Policies
Years Later, Vietnam Vets Suffer from Rare Cancer
DANVILLE, Calif. — Mike Baughman considered himself one of the lucky ones, returning from Vietnam without any major injuries or psychological scars. But after falling ill nearly a half-century later, he found out he did not escape the war after all. The 64-year-old is among hundreds of veterans who have been diagnosed with a rare […]
November 14, 2016
Policies
60 Minutes to Trump: What Will You Do with Obamacare?
Today I watched CBS’ Leslie Stahl interview President-elect Donald Trump on the 60 Minutes YouTube live stream that had a viewer chat window on the side. While I tried to ignore everyone cursing at each other and sending racist epithets, sexist and sexual comments, and swastikas to each other, here’s what Trump said on his […]
November 14, 2016
Blogs/Opinion
Minorities Face Barriers to Mental Health Care
A recent report from the CDC revealed the urgent state of mental health in this country: From 1999 to 2014, the age-adjusted suicide rate in the U.S. jumped by 24 percent. Suicides rose for both men and women across all ages 10 to 74. The United States is facing serious mental health challenges. And if […]
November 9, 2016
Other News
Clinical Pharmacists Provide Veterans Primary Care
Veterans Affairs is now using clinical pharmacists to handle up to one-quarter of primary care appointments to combat wait times at some medical centers. Last year, VA implemented changes that allowed clinical pharmacists to handle primary care for many veterans at select facilities. The push is reportedly in an effort not to increase healthcare quality […]
November 9, 2016
Policies
Study: Prescribe Anti-Overdose Drug With Opioids
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Prescribing an anti-overdose drug at the same time as opioid painkillers can help prevent overdose deaths, according to researchers at the University of New Mexico. Researchers studied 164 patients at the UNM Pain Center for a year and published their findings in the journal Substance Abuse in April, The Albuquerque Journal eported. […]
November 9, 2016
Other News
Food Addict Loses 500 Pounds
INDIALANTIC, Fla. — Fred Riley guesses that he weighed 750 pounds at his heaviest, unhealthiest point. But that’s just an estimate: The scale built into his hospital bed only measured objects up to 700 pounds. The morbidly obese Indiana resident with congestive heart failure spent a decade laying on a jumbo leather recliner, wearing a […]
November 9, 2016
Policies
Judge Offers Mentally Ill a Lifeline
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Before he entered mental health court, Kevin had worked out what he considered to be an unspoken agreement with the criminal justice system. In exchange for using illegal drugs to escape his demons, Kevin — who did not want to use his real name — would spend part of the year behind […]
November 9, 2016
Policies
Blacks Were Encouraged to Buy Tainted Homes
TAMPA, Fla. — Sulfurous fumes seep from the walls of Valentine Hendrix’s home, slowly attacking her appliances and light fixtures, her lungs and sinuses. It’s been that way for almost nine years. In 2008, Hendrix’s family was one of 12 poor black families encouraged by the Tampa Housing Authority to become first-time home buyers in […]
November 9, 2016
Policies
Trial Focuses on Deadly Police Response
NEW YORK — When Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.’s medical alert pendant accidentally went off five years ago, the 68-year-old told police who showed up that he was fine, barred them from entering his apartment and repeatedly asked them to go away. They didn’t. That set off a tense, 90-minute standoff that ended with the mentally ill, […]
November 9, 2016
Blogs/Opinion
Obamacare: The Good and the Bad
In this interview, I mentioned the information a broker in Naples Florida sent me regarding some of their customers buying Obamacare compliant individual health insurance. Here are the broker’s 2017 examples: Family of four, mom and dad age 40, two kids. Lowest Bronze annual premium $13,176. Deductible $7,150 single, $14,300 family. Income $130,000. Not eligible […]
November 7, 2016
Policies
LSU: No Medical Marijuana Before 2018
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana State University’s planned medical marijuana growing operation doesn’t expect patients seeking the drug to have access until the summer of 2018, at the earliest. Bill Richardson, LSU’s vice president for agriculture, led an AgCenter forum Friday to update the public, including potential contractors and business partners, about plans to start […]
November 7, 2016
Disparities
Baby in a Box — Saving Lives in Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska — On a sunny morning at Bartlett Beginnings Family Birth Center, new mom Kaity Conrad set down her 10-day-old daughter Amelia into what looked like a giant shoebox. The box, covered in an intricate Alaska Native design, is one of the hundreds of baby boxes Bartlett Regional Hospital Foundation is supplying mothers who […]
November 7, 2016
Disparities
Polio Victim on Her Way to Stardom
BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Keira Cromwell comes in a tiny 10-year-old package, wrapped up in shiny black hair, big dark eyes and a smile that blings. Inside, there’s a dynamo who isn’t impeded much by the braces on her legs, or fingers that don’t work so well sometimes. “I do OK, but I need a wheelchair […]
November 7, 2016
Disparities
Mohawk Midwife Will Be Honored
Sherrill Katsi Cook Barreiro, a Mohawk Native American midwife, environmentalist and women’s health advocate, will be a 2017 Indspire Awards recipient, it’s been announced. Katsi Cook, known for decades for her work in environmental justice and reproductive health research at both the tribal and federal levels, is an Indspire Awards winner in the category of […]
November 7, 2016
Nursing
Allen College Addresses Nursing Shortage
WATERLOO — Emily Schuldt was enjoying her nursing career working in the intensive care unit at UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital when one of her former professors approached her about helping teach a clinical course through Allen College. It didn’t take long for Schuldt to catch the teaching bug after the initial experience. “It’s a passion that […]
November 7, 2016
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