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Trump’s Mocking of Disabled Is Fodder for Ads

WASHINGTON — Here’s Grace, a sweetly smiling little girl in a wheelchair. Now here’s her mother, Lauren Glaros: “When I saw Donald Trump mock a disabled person, I was just shocked,“ she says. Then we see Trump, his hands jerking in front of his body as he imitates a reporter who has a condition that […]

July 14, 2016

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Obama: Inaction on Zika Will Delay Vaccine

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has cautioned top lawmakers that continued gridlock over legislation to combat the Zika virus could delay research and development of a vaccine to protect against Zika and tests to detect it. The warning came in a letter July 12 from White House budget chief Shaun Donovan and Health and Human […]

July 14, 2016

Rural Clinic Provides Care to Underserved

SILVER CITY, N.M. — Beatrice Resendiz grew up in this small town of miners, artists and college students near the Gila National Forest. A diabetic, she set aside her own needs to work, care for her four granddaughters and help minister to her mother, who had Alzheimer’s disease. Only when Resendiz ended up in the […]

July 14, 2016

Congress Probes Indian Health Service

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Members of Congress are questioning the longstanding staffing and management shortcomings that have led to poor health care services at government-run facilities caring for Native Americans across the country. The hearing July 12 in Washington of the House subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs focused on proposed legislation that […]

July 13, 2016

Maine Residency Program Promotes Preventative Health

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine Medical Center is leaning on the power of plants to grow a crop the state could always use more of — doctors. A new preventive medicine residency program at the hospital hopes to build up the number of doctors in the state who are dedicated to helping Mainers avoid disease through […]

July 12, 2016

Hospital and IHS Partner Against Cancer

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Roswell Park Cancer Institute is part of a new collaboration targeting cancer in Native American and Alaska Native communities. The Buffalo hospital will work with the Indian Health Service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under an agreement that focuses on cancer prevention and research. Roswell Park researcher […]

July 12, 2016

Mental Health And Latinos After Orlando

Weeks after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando on June 12, where 96% of victims and most survivors were Hispanics, the issue of mental health has taken center stage as one of the most pressing community concerns. “The perception amongst Hispanics is that people who need mental health services are ‘locos’ or insane,” states Denisse […]

July 12, 2016

Texas Accused of Ignoring Mentally Disabled in Nursing Homes

It took more than 40 years for Leonard Barefield to finally get to choose where he lived. The intellectually-disabled Texas native moved to a group home in Lubbock in September after he had first lived in near slavery conditions for more than three decades in a squalid house in Iowa and worked at a turkey […]

July 12, 2016

How ‘Pokémon Go’ is improving mental health

It’s been less than a week since “Pokémon Go” was unceremoniously dropped into the hands of the smartphone-wielding masses, and players have already managed to troll Westboro Baptist Church, get robbed at gunpoint and even stumble across a dead body. The response to the augmented reality game has been explosive — not unlike the initial […]

July 12, 2016

Nursing School in Indiana Gets $2 Million

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The University of Southern Indiana’s nursing school is getting more than $2 million in federal grants to improve health care in underserved areas. The Evansville Courier & Press reports that the school’s Nursing and Health Professions Dean Ann White says the money comes from the federal health Resources and Services Administration. Of […]

July 12, 2016

N.M. Region Lacks Maternity Facilities

LAS VEGAS, N.M. — Four months after Alta Vista Regional Hospital shuttered its labor, delivery and pediatric services with only six days’ notice to patients and providers, the Las Vegas region’s only hospital is still struggling to find medical staff needed to help pregnant women deliver babies close to home. The investor— owned hospital has […]

July 12, 2016

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Doctor Sentenced for Medicare Fraud

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A South Florida doctor will spend more than three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to falsely diagnosing hundreds of patients in a Medicare fraud scheme. Court records show 57— year— old Isaac Thompson of Delray Beach also was ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $2.1 million […]

July 12, 2016

Medical Marijuana Company to Sponsor Gathering

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A medical marijuana company operating in New Mexico and Arizona has signed on as a sponsor of one of North America’s largest powwows. Gathering of Nations organizers announced their partnership with Ultra Health this week, saying it’s similar to health and dental clinics at previous powwows. Founder Derek Mathews told Albuquerque television […]

July 12, 2016

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Planned Parenthood Seeks Repeal of Abortion Rule

MADISON, Wis. — Planned Parenthood and Democratic lawmakers has called on the Republican— led Wisconsin Legislature to strike an abortion restriction from the state’s legal code even though the U.S. Supreme Court struck it down last week, rendering it unenforceable. The Supreme Court overturned a similar Texas statute requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges […]

July 12, 2016

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Black Males: “Will I Be the Next Hashtag?”

PHILADELPHIA — Javon Grant has come up with a plan for what to do should he cross paths with a police officer: Get as far away as possible. “People are getting shot every day,” says Javon, 14. “I’ll walk on the other side of the street. I will run. I don’t know what they’re gonna […]

July 12, 2016

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Murder-Suicide a Year Later: Understanding PTSD

YORK, Pa. — Sometimes, Emily Brown’s mind flashes back to July 2, 2015. When she hears firecrackers. Sees wood decks. Smells the aromas of a summer night. Brown was a customer at Flapjack’s Restaurant and Pub off U.S. Route 15 in Carroll Township that night, along with about 50 to 60 other people. It was […]

July 11, 2016

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Ogletree Announces Battle with Alzheimer’s

Charles J. Ogletree Jr.—one of the brightest legal minds in the Academy—known for his mentoring of future Black lawyers, has announced that he is battling Alzheimer’s disease.

July 10, 2016

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Senator Mike Rounds Demands Audit of Indian Health Service

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A U.S. Senator has formally requested an audit of the finances of the Indian Health Service. South Dakota’s U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds has asked the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to conduct the audit. Rounds’ request on July 6 comes at a time when the […]

July 7, 2016

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