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U.S. Moves to Dismiss Complaint Against Webster U.

A long time employee at Webster University filed a federal complaint alleging the university committed fraud by overcharging veterans for tuition. Now, the United States moved to throw out the complaint that could have cost the university upwards of $75 million in damages and civil penalties. Webster’s Director of Public Relations Patrick Giblin said the […]

February 22, 2018

Army Base Survey Cites Jobs as Most Pressing Issue

VICENZA, Italy — Respondents to a survey at the Army garrison here see unemployment and lost career opportunities as the top social problems, according to a recent survey. More than 67 percent of the 685 people who took the survey on quality of life at U.S. Army Garrison Italy identified these issues as a major […]

February 22, 2018

New Program Would Streamline Job Help for Spouses

A new program from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Hiring Our Heroes is hoping to have big impact in major military areas nationwide by funneling momentum for military spouse employment into action. The Military Spouse Economic Empowerment Zones program, announced today by the foundation and USAA, will focus on a currently unnamed collection of […]

February 22, 2018

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Bad TV, Bad Medicine

Along with a dwindling number of my medical colleagues, I’ve been watching Fox’s new TV show “The Resident,” which documents the experiences of an intern fresh out of medical school (the charming Manish Dayal), along with his chief resident (a brash but dedicated Matt Czurchy), and an assortment of other residents, nurses (including the wonderful […]

February 22, 2018

Texas Women Fight to Lower Maternal Mortality

SAN ANTONIO – There is a long list of causes that lead to maternal mortality, women dying within a year of giving birth. Those deaths are reported to be higher in Texas than anywhere else in the U.S and many other developed countries. Some women are at higher risk than others. Read More

February 22, 2018

Google Wants to Use Artificial Intelligence to Predict Heart Disease

I can look into your eyes and see straight to your heart. It may sound like a sappy sentiment from a Hallmark card. Essentially though, that’s what researchers at Google did in applying artificial intelligence to predict something deadly serious: the likelihood that a patient will suffer a heart attack or stroke. The researchers made […]

February 22, 2018

Life Expectancy Decline Linked to Drugs, Drinking, Suicide

For the second year in a row, the U.S. life expectancy rate dropped, decreasing in 2016 to 78.6, a loss of 0.1 from the previous year. It is alarming to think that, in a time when new medical advances or a better understanding of human health make headlines almost every week, children in the U.S. […]

February 22, 2018

Reversal of Alzheimer’s in Mice Offers Hope

(ABC News) — “Remarkable” — that’s how researchers are describing the results of a new study done on mice displaying traits associated with Alzheimer’s disease. The deletion of just a single enzyme saw the near total reversal of the deposition of amyloid plaques found in brains of those with Alzheimer’s, improving cognitive functions in the […]

February 22, 2018

Health Care Foot Soldier Dedicates Life to Equity

When Dr. Robert Smith was growing up in his hometown of Jackson, Miss., it was hard for most of the state’s residents to get high-quality health care. For poor Blacks, it was even harder. Health services were almost non-existent in rural parts of the nearly 50-percent Black state. In cities with hospitals, access for Blacks […]

February 22, 2018

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Trump Wants to Ease Rules on Health Benefits

The Trump administration wants to allow insurance companies to offer more policies that have limited health benefits and that can reject customers if they have pre-existing medical conditions. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says the plans, which don’t meet the legal requirements for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, will allow consumers […]

February 22, 2018

Focus on Shooter’s Mental Health Frustrates Experts

Frustration is mounting in the medical community as President Donald Trump’s administration again points to mental illness in response to a mass shooting. “The concept that mental illness is a precursor to violent behavior is nonsense,” said Dr. Louis Kraus, forensic psychiatry chief at Chicago’s Rush University Medical College. “The vast majority of gun violence […]

February 22, 2018

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“Achieving the Dream’ ID’s Student Issues

NASHVILLE — Advancing equity, strengthening advising and improving pedagogy and curriculum were among the issues explored this week at the annual meeting of Achieving the Dream.

February 21, 2018

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Study: Wide Black-White Wealth Gap Growing

Despite increases in Black business ownership, elected office, and university enrollment, a new study indicates that wealth disparities between U.S. Blacks and whites have been widening.

February 21, 2018

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3 Unsung Afro-Puerto Rican Heroes

In honor of Black History Month, I felt compelled to highlight Black Puerto Ricans. Anti-blackness not only exists within White communities, but is pervasive and prevalent in Puerto Rican and other Latinx cultures.

February 21, 2018

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New NAACP Youth Leader a Skilled Organizer

Tiffany Dena Loftin arrived this month as the NAACP’s new director of the Youth & College Division at a critical – even urgent – time when many young African-Americans are clamoring for ways to get involved in social justice movements to resist violence and oppression.

February 21, 2018

CONSTANCE SMITH HENDRICKS

CONSTANCE SMITH HENDRICKS has been named dean of the School of Nursing and Allied Health at Tuskegee University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a master’s degree in community health from the University of Alabama Birmingham. She earned a Ph.D. from Boston College.

February 21, 2018

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PRABHAS V. MOGHE

PRABHAS V. MOGHE has been appointed inaugural vice chancellor for research and innovation for Rutgers University–New Brunswick, where he has been serving as Distinguished Professor in the School of Engineering. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Bombay.

February 21, 2018

CAMILLA MEROS

CAMILLA MEROS has been named Chief of Staff at Virginia International University. She previously served as a curriculum coordinator at VIU. She holds a master’s degree in TESOL from VIU as well as three bachelor’s degrees from Federal University of Ouro Preto in Brazil, in translation, English and Portuguese.

February 21, 2018