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Legionnaires’ Outbreak at Senior Center Probed

The Minnesota Department of Health is investigating two cases of Legionnaires’ disease confirmed in residents at the SilverCreek on Main memory care and assisted living facility in Maple Grove. The first resident’s symptoms began Aug. 22, and the second resident’s symptoms began Sept. 12. MDH is working with SilverCreek to identify possible sources for the […]

September 25, 2017

University Team Reduces Disparities in Breast Cancer Care

Data-driven research has for years borne out that there are diverse health conditions between different demographics—blacks and whites, for instance. “We know that … more African-Americans die from cancer or heart disease or stroke or diabetes and infant mortality,” said Mona Fouad, MD, director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Minority Health and […]

September 25, 2017

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Aaron Hernandez Had Severe Brain Disease

Former NFL player Aaron Hernandez had a severe form of the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) when he died earlier this year, a new analysis of his brain shows. Researchers at Boston University’s CTE Center, who studied Hernandez’s brain, said on Thursday (Sept. 21), that the former New England Patriots player had “Stage 3 […]

September 25, 2017

Black Caucus Embraces Single-Payer Bills

Bills by U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) that would create a single-payer health care system in the United States are supported by most Congressional Black Caucus members. Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, along with Rep. Bernie Sanders have bills in Congress that call for a single-payer health care […]

September 25, 2017

Support for Obamacare Repeal Hangs on a Thread

Sen. Susan Collins on Sunday all but closed the door to supporting last-ditch Republican health care bill, leaving her party’s drive to uproot President Barack Obama’s health care law dangling by an increasingly slender thread. Already two GOP senators, Rand Paul of Kentucky and John McCain of Arizona, have said they would vote against the […]

September 25, 2017

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What Cuba Can Teach Us

It was a rare moment in the health care debate. A Trump supporter, Drea Holbert of Kentucky, was explaining her opposition to Republican health care bills to an NPR reporter when she said this: “Hopefully, they can take a look at what Canada is doing, and even Cuba.” Inside the beltway, though, Canadian-style health care […]

September 20, 2017

Professor: Destigmatize Obesity

A University of Texas professor recently urged his colleagues to “remove the stigma associated with large body types.” Professor Robert Reece, who teaches sociology at the university, argued in a recent essay for Teaching Tolerance magazine that educators must fight against fat stigma because it causes “internalized stigma and destructive behaviors” among overweight people. Read […]

September 20, 2017

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Insurance Rates Drop 26% in Alaska

Alaskans buying health insurance on the individual market will see a decrease of 26.5 percent in rates next year, the sole insurer in the state announced Tuesday. Alaskans had been paying some of the highest premiums in the nation. Read More

September 20, 2017

Survey: Consumers and Congress Disagree on What’s “Affordable”

Consumers value health insurance but often have to make sacrifices to afford it. Consumers and lawmakers disagree about what exactly “affordable” healthcare means. And doctors favor a new model for how they’re paid. Those are just a few of the takeaways from a new survey the Texas Medical Center’s Health Policy Institute released today (Sept. […]

September 20, 2017

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Navy Removes Employees in Snapchat Incident

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Navy hospital in Florida has removed some employees from patient care after Snapchat photos showed a nurse giving the middle finger to a newborn with a caption that said, “How I currently feel about these “mini Satans.” Jeanne Casey, spokeswoman for the Naval Hospital Jacksonville, said in a statement released late […]

September 20, 2017

Kimmel Takes on Latest Healthcare Bill

Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel took aim Tuesday at Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy’s new co-authored health care bill that would undo central components of ObamaCare and replace it with block grants — or federal funds — to the states. The host of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” who delivered a memorable monologue in May when […]

September 20, 2017

Bipartisan Effort to Improve “Obamacare” Ends

A bipartisan attempt at shoring up the Affordable Care Act is officially over in the Senate. The development comes as the GOP has revived its partisan attack on “Obamacare,” with Senate leaders and President Donald Trump pushing repeal and replace legislation. GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander, who chairs the Senate’s health committee and had been working […]

September 20, 2017

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Report: Obamacare Ads Work

When Trump administration officials slashed the advertising budget for healthcare.gov, the Affordable Care Act’s online marketplace, they said it was because of efficiency. Advertising, they said, was showing “diminishing returns” and was no longer an effective way to boost enrollment. But research that the Department of Health and Human Services conducted and then distributed internally […]

September 20, 2017

Push “Medicare for All”

Washington – The smartest, savviest people in Washington will tell you Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for all” idea is dead on arrival, a waste of time and energy. But since those same smart, savvy people told you Donald Trump didn’t have a prayer of becoming president, I’d advise keeping an open mind. What the Vermont senator’s […]

September 18, 2017

Sitting Too Long Can Kill You

In 1960, approximately 50 percent of U.S. jobs required heavy to moderate physical activity. Today, that number stands at just 20 percent, meaning approximately 80 percent of jobs are almost wholly sedentary or demand minimal physical exertion. The vast majority of us spend the bulk of our workdays being mostly immobile, glued to our chairs […]

September 18, 2017

Initiative Targets Disparities in Rural N.C.

A first-ever effort to marshal the combined resources of 12 ECU colleges and schools, 14 centers and institutes and university partners behind a single, coordinated campaign, the “Rural Prosperity Initiative,” was launched today by Chancellor Cecil P. Staton. East Carolina University is focusing its extensive research and engagement expertise on finding solutions to the extraordinary […]

September 18, 2017

Trump Was for Single-Payer Before

Donald Trump has heard about Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) “Medicare for All” plan, and he turned to Twitter yesterday to assure Americans the progressive proposal isn’t going anywhere. “Bernie Sanders is pushing hard for a single payer healthcare plan – a curse on the U.S. & its people. I told Republicans to approve healthcare fast […]

September 18, 2017

Congress Rejects Cuts for Health Research

Back in March, when President Trump released the first draft of his budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, he asked lawmakers for deep cuts to one of their favorite institutions, the National Institutes of Health — part of a broad reordering of priorities, away from science and social spending, toward defense and border security. […]

September 18, 2017