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Arkansas School Gets $11M for Infectious Disease Research
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency is awarding the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences an $11 million federal grant for research on infectious diseases. The grant is from an arm of the National Institutes of Health, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. It’s the second grant for a program […]
June 12, 2017
News Roundup
AG’s Office Reviewing University of Louisville Foundation Audit
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — More information is needed to determine whether the University of Louisville Foundation’s mismanagement — uncovered by a blistering audit – “crossed the line into criminal” activity, Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear said Monday. Beshear told reporters that his office is reviewing the audit to determine whether its findings exposed potential violations of […]
June 12, 2017
Students
Trump Puts Focus on Wisconsin’s Growing Apprentice Program
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker once told then-candidate Donald Trump “we don’t need an apprentice in the White House.” But on Tuesday the president and his daughter Ivanka Trump will join Walker to tour Waukesha County Technical College and talk about the importance of providing on-the-job training to workers in industries that sometimes struggle […]
June 12, 2017
Students
Video Shows Penn State Frat Pledge in Agony After Fall
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Security camera footage played Monday at a hearing for Penn State fraternity members shows a pledge in apparent agony in the hours after falling down basement steps — and members of the fraternity he had just joined trying to physically restrain him. Selections from the grainy footage began with 19-year-old Tim Piazza […]
June 12, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Healthcare: What Puzzles Me Is……
Before we can adequately debate healthcare – at the state or national level – I think we have to figure out what are we talking about. I’m still puzzled about what we are buying. Is it a cooperative bulk-purchasing club for health services and medical goods, somewhat like Costco operates? Read More
June 12, 2017
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Disparities
Valedictorian, Twin with Cerebral Palsy, Hopes to Fight Disease
Asked if there will be anything special about high school graduation, Lizbeth Gomez glances down and shyly shares, “I’ll be valedictorian.” After chatting with this 17-year-old senior for nearly two hours, it’s an astonishing accomplishment to reveal so late in an interview. But when you get to know Gomez, you come to understand that being […]
June 12, 2017
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Policies
Trump to Appoint UNC Doctor to Cancer Institute
The director of the University of North Carolina’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center could be headed to Washington, D.C., to lead the National Cancer Institute. President Donald Trump announced Friday that he intends to appoint Dr. Norman “Ned” Sharpless, 50, to head the federal agency in charge of cancer research. Sharpless, a Greensboro native, has been […]
June 12, 2017
Nursing
Bluefield State Signs Deal to Fill Medical Jobs
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Bluefield State College has signed an agreement with the state Department of Education to offer health sciences pathways to more quickly launch careers in medicine. The Health Science Education Pathway and the Associate of Nursing Pathway outline exact courses students need to fulfill requirements for in nursing and radiologic technician associate’s degrees […]
June 12, 2017
Disparities
GOP Plan Will Hit Native People Harder
As Senate Republicans attempt to produce their own health care blueprint this week, beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act are left wondering: what will happen to me? But one community is especially vulnerable if Congress repeals the ACA: Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The American Health Care Act, the Republican bill currently making its way […]
June 12, 2017
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Policies
Key Republican Demands Action to Shore Up Insurance Markets
A senior House Republican on Thursday called for immediate action to stabilize shaky health insurance markets around the country, amid concerns that the GOP could get blamed for rising premiums and dwindling choices next year. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, said the government should keep paying billions of dollars in “cost-sharing” […]
June 12, 2017
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Policies
Skirmish Unfolding Over Healthcare
The drama over James B. Comey’s testimony Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee isn’t the only excitement playing out on Capitol Hill today. A lower-profile fight involving the House health-care bill and whether it can go over to the Senate is not exactly Comey vs. Trump on charges of Russian election interference. But it is […]
June 12, 2017
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Policies
N.E. Journal: Trump’s Making Us Mentally Ill
A new review paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that a growing body of empirical evidence shows how presidential elections can have effects on physical and mental health, and can influence behavior. Specifically, they found evidence that suggests that the campaign and subsequent election of Donald Trump has had a negative […]
June 12, 2017
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Leadership & Policy
University of Maine at Augusta Appoints New President
AUGUSTA, Maine — The University of Maine System says the system’s finance and administration vice chancellor Rebecca Wyke will be the next president of the University of Maine at Augusta. A spokesman for the university system says Wyke’s appointment will be effective July 1. The appointment comes after the approval of the Board of Trustees […]
June 11, 2017
Students
Hood College to Offer Mixed-gender Housing in Fall
FREDERICK, Md. — A Maryland college will allow upperclassmen the option to live in mixed-gender dorms. The Frederick News-Post reports Hood College students of different genders can live together in pairs at the same dorm rooms inside the school’s three upper-class residence halls starting in fall. Same-gender floors will exist for upperclassmen as well, so […]
June 11, 2017
Students
Lawsuit Amid College’s Coed Fraternity Rule Goes to Trial
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — Testimony has gotten underway in a lawsuit against a private liberal arts college in Connecticut over its revocation of a fraternity’s housing status after the school required fraternities to admit women. The Hartford Courant reports that Wesleyan University President Michael Roth testified Thursday that he shut down Delta Kappa Epsilon because he […]
June 11, 2017
Students
Fraternity Brothers Due in Court in Pledge’s Fatal Fall
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Members of a Penn State fraternity facing charges related to the death earlier this year of a pledge after a night of heavy drinking are due in court Monday for a hearing about whether there’s enough evidence to head to trial. Prosecutors in the case against the now-shuttered Beta Theta Pi chapter […]
June 11, 2017
Students
Paris Prosecutor Charges Notre Dame Attacker
PARIS — The hammer-wielding man who attacked police officers patrolling in front of Notre Dame Cathedral appears to have radicalized himself through the internet and was unknown to French police and intelligence services, the chief prosecutor in Paris said Saturday. The Paris prosecutor’s office said the 40-year-old Algerian doctoral student was given preliminary charges Saturday […]
June 11, 2017
Students
Israel University Heads Lash Out at Code of Ethics Plan
JERUSALEM — Israel’s university leaders have lashed out at the nationalist education minister’s plan to impose a code of ethics they say is aimed at limiting their academic freedom. The umbrella organization of Israel’s university heads says they “vehemently object” to Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s guidelines calling on professors to refrain from expressing political opinions […]
June 11, 2017
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