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Medicare for All

Dreaming of a state-run single-payer healthcare system? Wake up and enter the real world. Want universal healthcare for all Americans? Medicare for all is the solution. Not this year or next, but possibly in the future — when Democrats recapture the presidency and Congress. That’s the clear-eyed, pragmatic fight to engage in, and one advocated […]

August 16, 2017

Med School Expansion Could Close Gaps in Mississippi

JACKSON, Miss. — Physician-starved Mississippi can expect more doctors, more room for medical training simulations and a permanent home some once-scattered resources because of a new building at University of Mississippi School of Medicine, school leaders say. Med students are happy about it too. “This is going to be amazing,” said Andrew Strachan, a second-year […]

August 16, 2017

LGBT & Women Who Had Abortions May Lose Safeguards

WASHINGTON D.C., August 14, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The Trump administration is preparing new guidance purported to roll back Obama-era protections for LGBTs and women who have had abortions. While the exact contents of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommendations have not been revealed, red flags are being raised by progressive activists who […]

August 16, 2017

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Poll: Americans Want Bipartisan Healthcare

Now that the great Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal and replace debate has seemingly ended in Congress, we’ve seen movement by members of Congress towards a bipartisan approach to healthcare reform, starting with discussions on how to improve the current law. The new Kaiser Health Tracking Poll for August from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows […]

August 16, 2017

Oregon Adopts Protections for Abortion, Reproductive Health

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Tuesday signed what activists describe as the most far-reaching law in the land to solidify access to abortion and subsidized birth control, bucking efforts in Washington to limit reproductive health coverage. The Reproductive Health Equity Act requires insurers to cover abortions at no cost to the patient, enshrining the right to […]

August 16, 2017

CBO: If Subsidies End, Premiums and Deficit Will Soar

WASHINGTON — Premiums for the most popular health insurance plans would shoot up 20 percent next year and federal budget deficits would increase by $194 billion in the coming decade if President Donald Trump carries out his threat to end certain subsidies paid to insurance companies for the benefit of low-income people, the Congressional Budget […]

August 16, 2017

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Health Disparities Can Be Skin Deep

About half of patients will have skin of color by 2050, the U.S. Census Bureau projects. Of the many ways this demographic change will affect American society, there is one medical implication that is not widely appreciated. Dermatologists and the primary care physicians who refer to them will be faced with cutaneous diseases that happen […]

August 16, 2017

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States With Legal Pot Crack Down on Smuggling

PORTLAND, Ore. — Well before Oregon legalized marijuana, its verdant, wet forests made it an ideal place for growing the drug, which often ended up being funneled out of the state for big money. Now, officials suspect pot grown legally in Oregon for medicinal and recreational purposes and other states is also being smuggled out, […]

August 16, 2017

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It’s A Small World

For better or for worse, the change of Presidential administrations has produced many global controversies in just a few short months, forcing us to remember how small and fragile our planet is.

August 16, 2017

Leadership & Policy

UNR Student Won’t Be Expelled for Role in Charlottesville Protest

RENO, Nev. — The president of the University of Nevada, Reno says a UNR student who gained notoriety for rallying with White nationalists in Virginia will not be expelled or lose his university job. Peter Cytanovic, who also goes by the name Peter Cvjetanovic, was photographed with a group of demonstrators on Friday carrying a […]

August 16, 2017

Faculty & Staff

University of Montana Lecturers Given 6-month Layoff Notices

MISSOULA, Mont. — The University of Montana has given about 40 non-tenured lecturers notice that their contracts won’t be renewed at the end of the fall semester. Provost Beverly Edmond told the Missoulian the letters were sent to meet university policy that lecturers with more than three consecutive years of service be given one semester’s […]

August 16, 2017

Troubled For-profit Law School in North Carolina Closing

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The alumni association president of a troubled, for-profit law school in North Carolina says it’s closing immediately. Lee Robertson Jr. says Charlotte School of Law employees were notified Monday. By Tuesday afternoon, the 11-year-old school’s website had been taken down. Local media report the University of North Carolina Board of Governors voted […]

August 16, 2017

Charlottesville Evokes Memories of the Sixties

I am a product of the 1960s and grew up in a Southern city. Segregation, separate but equal, we sat upstairs and they sat downstairs at the movies all happened during my early years. However, it didn’t stop us from believing and achieving.

August 16, 2017

Ancestry Research Proves Stumbling Block for White Nationalists

If you want to get underneath the skin of White nationalists, check out how they react when genetic ancestry tests reveal the “bad news” that they are not 100 percent European.

August 16, 2017

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Georgetown to Add GRE Scores to Law School Application Process

Following in the footsteps of Harvard Law School and the University of Arizona, Georgetown Law School has made the decision to no longer allow the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) to be the only factor in determining a potential student’s acceptance.

August 16, 2017

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Faculty Chemistry Pays Off at Georgia Gwinnett College

Can you imagine a new state college having a junior faculty member chairing an open rank chemistry search committee?

August 16, 2017

Dr. C. Douglas Johnson

Those Fighting to Save DACA Still Seeking Answers

Now, just a couple of months past the five-year anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, supporters of DACA wonder if they can convince President Trump to keep the program amid calls for him to end it.

August 16, 2017

Transgender Ban — A Veteran’s Perspective

On Wednesday July 26, 2017 at 8:55 a.m., President Trump sent shock waves across the nation when he tweeted, “The United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the […]

August 15, 2017