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Leadership & Policy

Regent: Response to Iowa State Plane Scandal was ‘Slap in the Face’

A member of the Board of Regents says his colleagues’ decision to take no action against Iowa State University President Steven Leath for misusing university airplanes was “a slap in the face” to Iowa taxpayers. In a Dec. 20 email obtained Wednesday through the public records law, Regent Subhash Sahai told board leaders that he […]

January 11, 2017

First of 37 Defendants in Fraternity Death Pleads Guilty

STROUDSBURG, Pa. — The first of 37 suspects charged in the fraternity hazing death of a New York City college student in eastern Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty. Twenty-five-year-old Ka-Wing Yuen pleaded guilty Tuesday in Monroe County to conspiracy to hinder apprehension and conspiracy to haze for helping cover up the death of Chun “Michael” Deng. […]

January 11, 2017

Community Colleges

Pearl River Community College President to Retire in June

POPLARVILLE, Miss. — Pearl River Community College President William Lewis is set to retire this summer. News outlets report that school officials in a news release that Lewis notified the college’s Board of Trustees on Tuesday that he will retire June 30. He has been president of PRCC since 2000. Adam Breerwood, vice president for […]

January 11, 2017

Bones of Mengele, ‘Angel of Death,’ Teaching Tool in Brazil

SAO PAULO — For more than 30 years, the bones of Josef Mengele, a German doctor who conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Jews at Auschwitz, lay unclaimed inside a blue plastic bag in Sao Paulo’s Legal Medical Institute. Dr. Daniel Romero Munoz, who led the team that identified Mengele’s remains in 1985, saw an […]

January 11, 2017

Bernie Sanders: Trump Must Rescue Obamacare or Admit Lies

It didn’t take long. During the first week of 2017, the new Republican Congress has begun efforts to dismantle America’s health-care system. Their long-standing goal, consistent with their right-wing ideology, is to take away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans, privatize Medic300are, make massive cuts to Medicaid and defund Planned Parenthood. At the […]

January 11, 2017

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UMKC Nursing Dean Receives Federal Honor

KANSAS CITY, MO – Ann Cary, dean of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing and Health Studies, has been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The national advisory council — comprised of up to 23 members including students, practicing […]

January 11, 2017

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Trump Nominee Makes False Claims about Birth Control

This week, Donald Trump announced his picks for his Domestic Policy Council, and on that list is Katy Talento, an infectious disease epidemiologist who will work on health care policy. There’s still a few weeks before the President-elect is sworn into office, but Talento has already come under fire for claims she has made about […]

January 11, 2017

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Nominee for HHS Sought Favors for Health Industry Donors

Rep. Tom Price, the physician and Georgia Republican tapped for the nation’s leading health care job, has long criticized federal spending as excessive. Yet during his years in Congress, he’s worked hard to keep federal dollars flowing to his most generous campaign donors. Price has been a go-to congressman, a review of his records show, […]

January 11, 2017

Blacks, Twice as Likely to Have Diabetes, Rare in Trials

(Reuters Health) – Even though diabetes rates are almost twice as high in black people as in whites, black patients may be far less likely to be included in drug safety trials, a recent study suggests. Since 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has required that new glucose-lowering medications for diabetes be tested for […]

January 11, 2017

FDA Encourages Diversity in Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are voluntary human research studies designed to answer specific questions about the safety and effectiveness of drugs, vaccines, devices, and other therapies—or to study new ways of using existing treatments. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not ordinarily conduct clinical trials. But the FDA relies on the data from these trials to […]

January 11, 2017

GOP Uneasy About Obamacare Repeal Without a Plan

WASHINGTON — Republican anxiety is mounting over voting to unravel the healthcare law without having an alternative in hand, fanned by words of encouragement from Donald Trump to a GOP senator who wants to simultaneously repeal and replace the statute. GOP leaders have made dismantling President Barack Obama’s treasured healthcare overhaul their premier 2017 priority. […]

January 11, 2017

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Obama Health Legacy: Coverage, Conflict, Questions

WASHINGTON — Although his signature law is in jeopardy, President Barack Obama’s work reshaping healthcare in America is certain to endure in the broad public support for many of its underlying principles. Notwithstanding growing pains in connection securing some of the promises of the Affordable Care Act, the belief that people with medical problems should […]

January 11, 2017

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Proactive Pragmatist

NCAA’s Dr. Bernard Franklin moves diversity/inclusion needle.

January 11, 2017

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Year in Review

2016 Year in Review

January 11, 2017

Ex-student Loses Legal Challenge in Sexual Misconduct Case

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A judge has ruled in favor of the University of Michigan in a lawsuit by a former student who says his rights were violated during the disciplinary process for alleged sexual misconduct. Attorney Deborah Gordon says the man, identified only as John Doe, was made a “scapegoat” by the university to […]

January 10, 2017

Maryland Governor Hogan Proposes Tuition and Student Loan Relief

Tuition increases next fall at Maryland’s public colleges and universities would be capped at 2 percent, and student loan interest would become fully deductible on many people’s state tax returns under proposals Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday. Hogan said the proposals, if approved by the General Assembly in the session starting Wednesday, will provide relief […]

January 10, 2017

House Democrats, Teachers Unions Rally Against Betsy DeVos Nomination

Casting her as the “antithesis” to public education, House Democrats — joined by the leaders of the nation’s two largest teacher unions — on Tuesday called for the Senate to block the nomination of Betsy DeVos as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. secretary of education.

January 10, 2017

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Rodriguez: The Miscounted of 2016 and False Media Narrative of Police Abuse

If one was relying on the mass media, one would never know that along with Blacks, Red-Brown peoples are getting killed at outrageous and unacceptable rates.

January 10, 2017