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Section: Health
Disparities
1912 O’Neill Drama Relates to Opioid Crisis Today
NEW LONDON, Conn. — Change a few words and dress the characters in modern outfits, and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical masterpiece, could be about any of the dozens of local families today torn apart by opioid addiction. “It’s very relevant,” Jessica Lange, who last week won a Tony […]
June 22, 2016
Disparities
Elderly on Opioids: 1 in 3 Got Them on Medicare
CHICAGO — Nearly 12 million Medicare beneficiaries received at least one prescription for an opioid painkiller last year at a cost of $4.1 billion, according to a federal report that shows how common the addictive drugs are in many older Americans’ medicine cabinets. With an overdose epidemic worsening, nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries received at […]
June 22, 2016
Disparities
House Republicans Present Obamacare Alternatives
WASHINGTON —House Republicans are unveiling new proposals to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health care law, as Speaker Paul Ryan sought to showcase a GOP governing agenda amid the tumult of the presidential campaign. The plan, revealed Wednesday, (June 22) relies on individual tax credits to allow people to buy coverage from private insurers, […]
June 22, 2016
Disparities
For-Profit Medical Schools Offer Hope for Rural Areas
BOISE, Idaho —For-profit medical schools are starting to pop up around the country, promising to create new family doctors for underserved rural regions. Rural states like Idaho need more general practitioners, with the baby boom generation aging and expanded insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act making health care more accessible. But critics of the […]
June 22, 2016
Disparities
Orlando shooting sheds light on mental health disparities in Florida’s Latino community
Fernandez. Guerrero. Martinez. As the names of the victims in the Orlando shooting were announced, it quickly became clear that the traumatic event had disproportionately affected the city’s Latino community. Nearly all 49 victims killed at the Pulse gay nightclub, were Latino. Of those, 23 were Puerto Rican. “With Latinos, the fact that my neighbor’s […]
June 21, 2016
Blogs/Opinion
Breastfeeding as a trans dad: ‘A baby doesn’t know what your pronouns are’
Giving birth to two children as a transgender man gave Trevor MacDonald rare insight into the manifold struggles of trans individuals – and in blogging about it he became the public voice of a long hidden conversation. MacDonald, soft-spoken and sporting a wispy goatee, was breastfeeding his first child at the time. He and his […]
June 21, 2016
Disparities
Study: 1 in 5 Trauma Deaths Could Be Avoided
WASHINGTON —Up to 1 in 5 deaths from car crashes, gunshots or other injuries might be prevented with better, quicker trauma care that doesn’t depend so much on where you live, according to government advisers —advice that takes on new urgency amid the increasing threat of mass casualties like the massacre in Orlando. The Orlando […]
June 20, 2016
Disparities
Rescued Horses Will Help Veterans with PTSD
NIANTIC, Conn. After losing sight in his right eye from a 2013 rocket attack in Afghanistan, retired U.S. Army Maj. Dan Thomas recovered with help from an equine therapy program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Hoping to help other veterans, he and his wife traveled from their home in Alabama to Connecticut recently […]
June 20, 2016
Policies
NC Program Helps Farmworkers Get Health insurance
DUNN, N.C. — Seasonal agricultural workers were just finishing a meal after a long day of planting sweet potato seeds when Julie Pittman pulled up to their camp. Pittman, a paralegal with the Farmworker Unit of Legal Aid of North Carolina, worked to get their attention. The health care law that passed in 2010 requires […]
June 20, 2016
Disparities
Senate Hearing Examines Indian Health Service
RAPID CITY, S.D. — Tribal leaders and members of Congress demanded greater transparency and accountability from the federal agency responsible for providing health care to members of Native American tribes during a U.S. Senate committee hearing Friday (June 17) in western South Dakota. The field hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs focused […]
June 20, 2016
Disparities
Building On Obamacare To Battle Health Disparities
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) represents a landmark action toward reducing health disparities in a long and ongoing struggle to ensure that everyone in this country has an equal opportunity to be healthy. But much work needs to be done to ensure that access to quality health care in America is not only for the […]
June 16, 2016
Disparities
The Challenges in Uncovering and Addressing Health Disparities Among Asian-Americans
Though they make up 5.6 percent of the US population, discussions about Asian-American health appear to be few and far between. According to the Asian-American Health Initiative, a variety of medical and public health scourges disproportionately affect the Asian-American community. Read More
June 16, 2016
Blogs/Opinion
The health disparities of being gay
The club Pulse, site of the biggest mass gun shooting in U.S. history, was named to honor one of the co-owner’s brothers, who succumbed to AIDS in 1991. In today’s Health Populi, I soberly ponder the lost lives in the Orlando massacre of people who joyfully convened in a safe haven to celebrate life, liberty, […]
June 16, 2016
Policies
Philadelphia Soda Tax Strategy : Stress Needs, Not Health
PHILADELPHIA —In the city of cheese steaks and soft pretzels, a soda tax that regulates people’s behavior is a hard sell. But Philadelphia is on the verge of becoming only the second city in the country to pass a tax on soft drinks, thanks to the mayor’s creative approach to push the plan as a […]
June 15, 2016
Disparities
Cherokee Nation Gets $1 Million to Aid Children
OKLAHOMA CITY —The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma has been awarded a $1 million grant as part of an effort to get more children enrolled in federal welfare programs for which they are eligible, federal officials announced June 13. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the Tahlequah-based tribe is one of 38 recipients from […]
June 15, 2016
Disparities
Olympic Shooter Beat Odds After Eye Injury
PHOENIX —The shirt, with blue short sleeves and U-S-A written above red Olympic rings, remained stashed in the back of Jay Shi’s closet yet at the forefront of his thoughts. He would wear it one day. It just had to be earned first. The shirt was more than fabric, thread, logo. It was a goal, […]
June 15, 2016
Disparities
“Doc McStuffins”— Role Model for Black Women
LOS ANGELES — A pig-tailed girl whose favorite accessory is a pink stethoscope has become a symbol of pride and hope for black women in medicine and the daughters they want to inspire. Doc McStuffins, the African-American title character of an animated TV series for children, dreams of becoming an M.D. and, for now, runs […]
June 15, 2016
Other News
Blood Donors Line Up in Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. — OneBlood officials were continuing to urge people to donate blood on Monday in the wake of the Orlando nightclub massacre over the weekend. Potential donors are asked to make appointments at their local blood banks. OneBlood officials posted videos on Facebook showing snacks and beverages donated for people waiting in long lines […]
June 14, 2016
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