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A Black Doctor’s Perspective
I wake up at 5 a.m. to get ready for another day to see my patients. The moment I step into the hospital, I put on my long white coat. Not because it’s a part of my uniform, but because if I don’t wear it, people won’t think this young female black woman is a […]
August 17, 2016
Other News
Obesity More Deadly for Men
WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Obesity is nearly three times more deadly for men than it is for women, new research suggests. In a study of nearly 4 million men and women around the globe, the risk of dying before the age of 70 was 19 percent for men and 11 percent for […]
August 17, 2016
Other News
Best Residential Nursing Programs Listed
It is hard to beat the experience of an on-campus education. Going to live classes can result in life-long friendships with other students and opportunities for mentoring by passionate faculty. In this ranking of schools that offer residential BSN programs, we find the best schools for you based on 1) those at which you are […]
August 17, 2016
Nursing
PhD Nursing Programs Ranked
Everyone knows what nurses do: everyone has encountered a nurse, whether in the primary physician’s office, the emergency room, or the hospital. Nurses provide the hands-on care, meets a patient’s immediate needs, and do the grunt work of the healthcare system. But, outside of the nursing profession itself, very few people think about the other […]
August 17, 2016
Other News
Black Students Less Likely to Get Mental Health Care
A startling new study claims that black and Hispanic children and young adults are half as likely as white students to receive treatment for mental health problems. This study raises racism concerns because the racial and ethnic disparity exists despite the fact that both minorities have a similar rate of mental problems as that of […]
August 17, 2016
Disparities
Audit: 2,300 VA Patients Assigned to ‘Ghost ‘ Doctors
IOWA CITY, Iowa — More than 2,300 VA patients in Iowa and South Dakota were assigned to primary care “ghost panels,” or doctors who no longer worked at their hospitals, a federal audit found. Critics say the practice is a way that some VA hospitals have made their doctors’ caseloads appear artificially small and within […]
August 17, 2016
Policies
Medical Marijuana Ruling Frustrates Patients
MACON, Ga. — Medical marijuana supporters in Georgia were hoping for something different from the federal government, not its recent ruling that cannabis should remain off-limits. Georgians like Janea Cox of Monroe County want to be able to get medical cannabis just like other prescriptions instead of breaking the law to seek therapies for themselves […]
August 17, 2016
Disparities
Community Garden Fills Need for Healthy Food
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Ruth Torres is so devoted to her garden that a knee-high cast after foot surgery failed to deter her from planting and tending to it for the past three months. Her 8- by 4-foot raised bed in the incubator garden off English Street run by New Haven Farms is full of […]
August 17, 2016
Policies
Deputy Kills Mentally Ill Patient Armed with Sign Post
FAIRFAX, Va. — A sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a hospital patient who was wielding a metal sign post and appeared to be mentally disturbed, police said Tuesday. The 29-year-old Hispanic man had just been discharged from Inova Fairfax Hospital Monday (August 15) night when he began wielding a sign post with a sharp metal end, […]
August 17, 2016
Disparities
Athlete’s Problem: Too Much Testosterone for a Woman
RIO DE JANEIRO — The young athlete, now competing at the Rio Games, always considered herself to be a girl just like the others, a girl who loved to run. Then the governing body of track and field told her she was different, so different that her track career could be over. Marked “confidential” and […]
August 17, 2016
African-American
Eli Jones Inducted into Ph.D. Project Hall of Fame
Texas A&M University Mays Business School Dean Eli Jones was honored twice recently by two national organizations for his work as a role model and mentor.
August 16, 2016
Students
University of Alaska Southeast Students Using Disability Services Quintuples from 2008
JUNEAU, Alaska ―The number of students using disability services at the University of Alaska Southeast is more than five times what it was in 2008. There were 23 students at the Juneau campus using those services eight years ago, when the Americans with Disabilities Act broadened its definition of disability. Since then, that number has […]
August 16, 2016
Students
Missouri Grad Assistants Worry About Social Media Monitoring
COLUMBIA, Mo. ― Graduate assistants at the University of Missouri suspect the university is monitoring their private social media conversations as the students attempt to organize. Among hundreds of pages of university emails related to campus unrest last fall, including the resignations of President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, the university’s News Bureau […]
August 16, 2016
Students
Morgan State Bolsters Journalism School with Jason Johnson
Dr. Jason Johnson — a frequent commentator on cable news — has accepted a tenured professorship in the School of Global Journalism & Communication at Morgan State University, the Black college located in Baltimore.
August 16, 2016
Students
Rallying Millennials to Vote
Despite their large population (83 million), millennials vote at lower rates than their share of the population.
August 16, 2016
Leadership & Policy
HBCUs Struggling to Find Stability at Top
As the new fiscal year began July 1 for most of the nation’s institutions, at least 10 HBCUs were looking for permanent chief executives, according to data collected by the Washington, D.C.-based Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
August 16, 2016
Other News
Bill Clinton Earned Millions from For-Profit College
Bill Clinton was paid $1 million in 2015 by Laureate University, an educational institution with branches around the world. American Thinker has previously reported on this relationship between Clinton and the college, as well as the school’s flawed bookkeeping that got the college in trouble with the SEC. All told, over the last five years, […]
August 16, 2016
Other News
China Building College-Trained Military
“Good iron isn’t used for nails, and good people don’t become soldiers,” the old Chinese phrase goes. That’s changing, and at the speed of warfare. Worldwide, a reliance on raw manpower has given way to a focus on advanced systems and high-tech weaponry, making the education of personnel a prerequisite for any advanced military. That […]
August 16, 2016
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