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Arrest Highlights Rx Drug Abuse Among Youth, College Students
CHICAGO Drug abuse experts say the arrest of Al Gore’s son underscores the growing problem of prescription drug abuse among America’s youth. College students use the stimulant Adderall, an attention deficit drug, to get a speedy high or pull all-nighters.
July 4, 2007
Health
Exec Linked to Va. Tech Shooter Quits
BLACKSBURG Va. The executive director of a mental health agency that had a role in treatment for the Virginia Tech student who killed 32 people and himself has quit after a year in the position.
July 4, 2007
Health
Universities help pay salaries of Richardson appointees
ALBUQUERQUE Two New Mexico universities are helping foot the bill of Gov. Bill Richardson appointees, and the arrangement has some concerned about potential conflicts of interest.
July 4, 2007
Health
Hillary Clinton awarded honorary doctorate in Sweden
STOCKHOLM Sweden Hillary Rodham Clinton has been awarded an honorary doctorate of medicine at Sweden’s Goteborg University for her efforts to improve health care in the United States, officials said Thursday.
July 4, 2007
Leadership & Policy
UI, Wellmark talk about naming public health college
IOWA CITY Iowa The University of Iowa and Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield are talking about a major gift for naming the university’s new College of Public Health building.
July 3, 2007
Health
Police probe whether University of Chicago hospital patients got insulin overdoses
CHICAGO University of Chicago Medical Center and police are investigating whether three patients, including two who died, were somehow given insulin overdoses, officials said.
July 3, 2007
Students
Ohio Governor Signs Budget Plan Freezing College Tuition for Two Years
COLUMBUS Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland took his first budget to the final day, signing the $52 billion spending plan just hours before the fiscal year ended Saturday, and after making good on his threat to veto a tax-funded voucher program to allow special-needs students to attend private schools.
July 1, 2007
Health
OU’s medical campus to expand
OKLAHOMA CITY A master plan for the Oklahoma Health Center in Oklahoma City indicates the University of Oklahoma plans to expand one of the state’s largest medical campuses.
July 1, 2007
Health
HBCUs, Black Voters Figure Prominently In 2008 Presidential Race
There’s consensus among political experts that the location, moderator and audience at last week’s Democratic presidential debate, held at Howard University, forced candidates to discuss solutions to issues concerning Blacks and other minority voters. A second forum for candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination will be broadcast by PBS in September from another historically Black campus, Morgan State University in Baltimore.
July 1, 2007
Health
UMC’s Jones to serve as president of American Heart Association
JACKSON Miss. Dr. Daniel W. Jones, vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, will take over as president of the American Heart Association on July 1.
June 26, 2007
Health
Tuskegee grad finds comedy overcomes adversity
MONTGOMERY Ala. Darryl Moore’s fellow humorists call him the “Meanest Comic in the World.”
June 24, 2007
Health
Young Graduates Worst Off Among the Uninsured
TUCSON, Ariz. Congratulations, Shannon Tighe. You are a University of Arizona graduate. But you have no medical insurance.
June 24, 2007
Health
Pinn expands the scope of NIH – Vivian W. Pinn, National Institutes of Health – special report: health sciences
When Dr. Bernadine Healy, the renowned A cardiologist who was the first woman to head the National Institutes of Health (NIH), undertook a search in 1991 to hire the first permanent director of NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH), she did not have to look far to fill the position.
June 23, 2007
Sports
Sports medicine given new prescription: team work – includes related article on careers in sports medicine – special report: health sciences
Sports medicine used to be the sole responsibility of athletic trainers and team doctors, whose only emphasis was treating injured athletes.
June 23, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Examining higher education’s role in health care – educating personnel for allied health services – special report: health sciences
To meet health industry needs for thousands of physical therapists, occupational therapists and other trained health professionals, colleges and universities have revamped their course offerings. Even so, they turn down more students than they accept.
June 23, 2007
Students
Seeking the cure – nursing program at South Carolina State University – special report: health sciences
ORANGEBURG, S.C. Facing the threat of closure, the nursing program at South Carolina State University is searching for a cure to its problem of low passing rates among graduates who take the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN).
June 23, 2007
Health
Black medical community boosts AIDS research – special report: health sciences
In 1991, when Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, and Dr. Barbara Justice, learned that an immunologist in Kenya was achieving near-miraculous results treating HIV/AIDs patients with a substance called “kemron,” the two African-American physicians had to see for themselves.
June 23, 2007
Health
Miracles – political and medical – in South Africa
Some U.S. congressional leaders are calling projects funded by the United States Agency for International Develop it (USAID) at historically Black American institutions working in South Africa examples of “reverse discrimination.”
June 23, 2007
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