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Disparities
Sexually Transmitted Disease Could Be Next Superbug
It may not be the first disease that comes to mind when thinking of sexually-transmitted disease, but there’s an important reason to start paying attention to mycoplasma genitalium, or MG. Experts say MG could lead to a public health emergency if precautions aren’t taken. MG is back in the headlines this week after a U.K. […]
July 16, 2018
Disparities
Legionnaires’ Disease Breaks Out in Manhattan
An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease has sickened 11 people in Upper Manhattan, 10 of whom have been hospitalized, according to city health officials. Eight people remained in the hospital on Thursday. “This disease is very treatable with antibiotics,” Dr. Mary Bassett, the city’s health commissioner, said in a statement. “I encourage anyone with symptoms of […]
July 16, 2018
Disparities
Doctors: Sexual Harassment by Patients Happens on the Job
Sexual harassment can come from many sources, including patients. For this report, we asked physicians about how patients have harassed them or been guilty of misconduct, and how they dealt with it. Medscape’s Sexual Harassment of Physicians: Report 2018, published previously, reveals the current state of physician harassment by other clinicians, medical personnel, and workplace/hospital […]
July 16, 2018
Policies
HHS Announces Cuts to Navigator Funds
The Trump administration’s decision Tuesday to slash funding to nonprofit groups that help Americans buy individual health insurance coverage sparked outrage from advocates of the Affordable Care Act. Using words like “immoral” and “cold-hearted,” they saw it as the Republicans’ latest act of sabotage against the sweeping health law. But as the ACA’s sixth open-enrollment […]
July 16, 2018
Disparities
Talc Cancer Verdict of $4.6 Billion Sends ‘Very Powerful Message’
A St. Louis jury Thursday awarded $550 million in actual damages and $4.14 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson over claims its talcum powder caused ovarian cancer in women who used the company’s products for years. This trial, which began June 4 in St. Louis Circuit Court, had 22 plaintiffs […]
July 16, 2018
Disparities
Saving Black Babies by Saving the Neighborhood
Black babies are two times more likely to die in their first year of life than white babies. This is a gap that has persisted in our country for decades. Around the country, people are trying in big ways and small to close it. The Castlemont neighborhood in East Oakland is known as a Best Babies […]
July 16, 2018
Opinion
Trump’s Art of the Deal: Merge Education and Labor Departments?
The White House publicly released a report called “Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century” on Thursday, June 21. First among the 32 organizational reform priorities proposed by President Donald Trump is merging the departments of education and labor into a single entity: the Department of Education and the Workforce.
July 14, 2018
News Roundup
Attorney General to Examine Temple Business School Scandal
PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s Attorney General is looking into allegations that Temple University’s business school provided false data to boost the rankings of its online program. Attorney General Josh Shapiro says he’s asked the Bureau of Consumer Protection to examine the case, including Temple’s business and marketing practices. He says he sent a letter Friday to […]
July 13, 2018
News Roundup
Jefferson University Offers Medical Marijuana Grad Programs
PHILADELPHIA — Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia will be offering graduate-level certificate programs in medical marijuana. Courses start this fall for two graduate certificate programs in cannabis medicine and cannabinoid pharmacology at the school’s Lambert Center for the Study of Medicinal Cannabis and Hemp. A third program on cannabinoid chemistry and toxicology will get underway […]
July 13, 2018
African-American
UNCF to Showcase ‘Purposeful Disruptions’ at HBCUs
For the third year in a row, the United Negro College Fund will hold their Career Pathways Initiative Annual Convening & Data Institute, bringing together data industry experts and faculty, staff and executive leadership from more than 40 historically Black institutions this month in Fort Lauderdale.
July 13, 2018
News Roundup
University of Louisville Removing Papa John from Stadium Name
The University of Louisville is removing Papa John’s from its football stadium’s name after a report the pizza chain’s founder used a racial slur. The company’s logo has been on Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium since it was built 20 years ago. John Schnatter, who also resigned from the university’s board of trustees, apologized this week […]
July 13, 2018
Home
Gina Adams: Power Player Who Supports Scholars
Every work day is a busy day for Gina F. Adams, which makes lunch on this particular Friday a welcomed diversion. It’s even more special because Adams is meeting for the first time with a first-year student at Howard University’s School of Law.
July 13, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
NATO Spending
President Trump is already drawing headlines for his gaffes at this week’s NATO conference. But perhaps worse is his bold—but more mainstream—demand that NATO countries meet an arbitrary military spending goal. The president wants NATO countries to spend 4% of their GDP on their militaries. In fairness, Trump didn’t dream up this daffy idea himself: […]
July 13, 2018
Other News
Filmmaker to Open WWII Education Center
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A filmmaker who shares the stories of World War II veterans is opening an education center in Rhode Island so students can learn about the war and meet the men who fought in it. Tim Gray, founder of the nonprofit World War II Foundation, has made 21 documentaries and amassed a […]
July 13, 2018
Other News
N.C. Schools Invite Students Burned by For-Profits
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Wake Technical Community College are two public institutions encouraging students from three for-profit colleges to consider them for transfer this fall. South University in High Point and the Art Institutes in Durham and Charlotte will close at the end of the year. Like other for-profit colleges, those […]
July 13, 2018
Policy
83-Year-Old Charged With Posing as Marine Vet for Benefits
PENSACOLA, Fla. — An 83-year-old Florida man has pleaded guilty to pretending to be a veteran so he could receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in benefits. According to a statement from the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Florida, Richard Kohl claimed to serve with the Marines in the Korean war, forging government […]
July 13, 2018
Academics
Major Colleges Dropping Essay Test as Barrier
The SAT and ACT essay tests began with fanfare in 2005, a bid to assess the writing chops of college-bound students under the pressure of a clock. Now, many colleges say time’s up for those exams. With a few notable exceptions, the consensus in higher education is that the tests are becoming an afterthought even […]
July 13, 2018
Academics
What Can an Academic Tell Soldiers?
It was near the end of the evening commander’s update briefing on 6 June 2010, and her audience included dozens of staff officers in various combat uniforms. Hundreds more joined via videoconference from the regional commands in Afghanistan and NATO bases around the world. ISAF commander General Stanley McChrystal sat solemn-faced at the hub of […]
July 13, 2018
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