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What Trump Can Do to Fix Healthcare

My friend Patrick Spain, a serial internet entrepreneur, now runs a tele-medicine company called First Stop Health to which I subscribe. In other words, all of the flus, backaches, rashes, passing infections, and 24-hour viruses, the stuff of most doctor visits, are, in my house, handled by a telephone call. Call a number, describe your […]

February 1, 2017

Va. Senate OKs Wider Use of Marijuana Oil

RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Senate has approved a bill expanding the number of ailments that can be treated with two derivatives of the marijuana plant. The chamber voted January 26 on the measure that allows people with cancer, HIV, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis and a number of other diseases to access cannabidiol oil or […]

February 1, 2017

Drexel Team Awarded $12M Grant for Study

PHILADELPHIA — A research team at Drexel University in Philadelphia has been awarded a $12 million grant by a British foundation to examine the effects of urban life on the health of Latin Americans. WCAU-TV reports Ana Diez Roux, dean of Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health, will head the team. The study is one […]

February 1, 2017

Worries Over Turf’s Link to Cancer Holds Up Project

NEWNAN, Georgia — The money is budgeted, the athletic committee has given the go-ahead and Superintendent Steve Barker has his recommendation ready. So why has the Coweta County School System not moved ahead with installing artificial turf on its high school football fields in the two and a half years since the project was first […]

February 1, 2017

Trump Policies Threat to Veterans’ Care

Veterans voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by a 2-to-1 margin back in November. But a couple of changes that the new administration has underway are likely to put a particular squeeze on former service members’ health care. One particular flashpoint is at the Department of Veterans Affairs. When President Trump made good on […]

February 1, 2017

California’s Immigrant Kids Could Lose Care First

On a recent rainy morning in Los Angeles, Maria Bernal’s stove clicks to life with a bright blue flame to toast bread on a griddle for her 9-year-old son Edwin to smear with peanut butter. As she scoops papaya chunks into the blender for a smoothie, she recalls her worry during all the years when […]

February 1, 2017

Medical Groups Say Travel Ban Worsens Shortages

Some groups are concerned President Trump’s order blocking people from seven countries from entering the United States could harm healthcare. The order could worsen the shortage of doctors in the United States, warns the Association of American Medical Colleges. We are deeply concerned that the Jan. 27 executive order will disrupt education and research and […]

February 1, 2017

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Trump Already Ruining Healthcare, Obama Chief Warns

WASHINGTON ― Andy Slavitt helped save Obamacare once already. He’s hoping he can do it again. Until Inauguration Day, Slavitt had been acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services since March 2015. That agency oversees the two health programs in its name along with the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Affordable […]

February 1, 2017

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Panel Sets Aside Rule to Forward HHS, Treasury Picks

The Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday approved President Trump’s picks for Health and Treasury secretaries after Republicans decided to suspend the panel’s rules and vote without any Democrats present. The rule they suspended had required at least one Democrat to be present for votes. It was the latest escalation in partisan tensions in the new […]

February 1, 2017

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Wheaton College Answers Immigration Ban with a Scholarship

Wheaton College, a small, private, liberal arts institution located in Norton, Massachusetts, announced Tuesday that it would institute a scholarship for a refugee from one of the seven countries listed under the travel ban in the executive order.

January 31, 2017

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Rodriguez: A Lesson the USA Could Learn from Mexico

Primary process and principio are complex issues, but it is the general idea of revolting and then returning to one’s original roots.

January 31, 2017

Make Room for the ‘Dean’s List Subversives’

As a professor, I encouraged students to join Women’s March events, but I stayed in the classroom. However, I am not silent when I use my classroom to normalize diversity.

January 31, 2017

DeVos Moves Forward but Opposition Closely Follows

Despite protestations from Democrats who said Betsy DeVos will have an adverse impact on higher education, the Senate education committee voted to move forward with the confirmation of the billionaire philanthropist as education secretary.

January 31, 2017

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Travel Ban Throws Research, Academic Exchange into Turmoil

BOSTON — Universities across the nation say President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven Muslim countries is disrupting vital research projects and academic exchanges in such fields as medicine, public health and engineering, with untold numbers of scholars blocked from entering the U.S. For years, schools in the U.S. have worked to widen exchanges […]

January 31, 2017

DeVry University to Pay $2.5M in New York Settlement

NEW YORK — New York’s attorney general says DeVry University will pay $2.25 million following allegations that it exaggerated graduates’ job and salary prospects. Eric Schneiderman said Tuesday that a settlement also requires the school – which operates locally as DeVry College of New York – to pay $500,000 in penalties and fees. Graduates eligible […]

January 31, 2017

Study: College Endowments Have Worst Year Since 2009

BOSTON — Hundreds of U.S. colleges lost money on their investments last year, continuing a downward slide that threatens to put a pinch on budgets, according to a new study. Among 800 schools included in the study, the average endowment shrank by almost 2 percent, the worst performance since the economic recession in 2009. The […]

January 31, 2017

Claim Accuses Wells Fargo of Denying Loans to Young Migrants

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal lawsuit filed Monday accuses banking giant Wells Fargo of illegally denying student loans to young immigrants who are protected from deportation and allowed to work and study in the U.S. under a program created by former President Barack Obama. Wells Fargo said it was disappointed the plaintiffs sued instead of […]

January 31, 2017

DeVos Doesn’t Know About Loans

President Donald Trump’s secretary of education pick Betsy DeVos has never taken out a student loan. Her four children have also never taken out student loans. She has no personal experience with the Pell Grant. This brings DeVos to a total of zero experience navigating federal financial aid, leaving her ill-equipped to lead the department […]

January 31, 2017

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