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Psychiatrist Shortage Means Long Waits
ALLENTOWN,Pa. — Sue Drabic of Allentown knew right away something was wrong with a family member, a college student at the time. “He was having delusional statements, like talking about saving the world,” she said, recalling the episode. “He was saying it in a way that you could tell he was serious about it.” All […]
April 3, 2017
Disparities
Indiana Enlists Barbers in Health Initiative
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — A southern Indiana health campaign is enlisting black-owned barbershops in a push to bring free health screenings and information on common diseases to black men. The seventh annual Black Barbershop Initiative kicked off March 31 at Community Action of Southern Indiana in Jeffersonville with free health screenings, door prizes and health information. […]
April 3, 2017
African-American
Refocusing the White Lens
Given the world events that have occurred over the last few centuries and especially during the last few months, I am asking you all to devote more time to not only researching rural America but actually doing anti-racist work there.
April 3, 2017
Other News
Abu-Jamal to Get Hep C Drug
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania prison officials say they will soon begin giving expensive new medication to former death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal to treat his hepatitis C infection. The Department of Corrections told a federal judge Friday that Abu-Jamal will be treated with an antiviral medication that can cost $50,000 to $60,000 per patient. Treatment will […]
April 3, 2017
Policies
Price Bought Drug Stock, Aided Firm
On the same day the stockbroker for then-Georgia Congressman Tom Price bought him up to $90,000 of stock in six pharmaceutical companies last year, Price arranged to call a top U.S. health official, seeking to scuttle a controversial rule that could have hurt the firms’ profits and driven down their share prices, records obtained by […]
April 3, 2017
Policies
Healthcare Plan, Patients in Limbo
Under the crisp midday sun in the hills of rural West Virginia, the Myers family pile out of their tired, red pick-up truck in the car park of the Cabin Creek Health Centre. “A couple of them had the flu and this one had an allergic reaction and we can’t figure out what it is […]
April 3, 2017
Disparities
Opioid Epidemic Exposes Racial Disparities
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The circle of patients gathered for group therapy at a doctor’s family practice in McKenzie could well represent the face of the state’s opioid epidemic. They were in a small city in a rural county, fertile ground for prescription drug addiction, though they traveled from as far as Nashville and Missouri. They […]
April 3, 2017
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Learning Diversity
April is “Celebrate Diversity” Month. It has been observed since 2005, when two diversity companies, the Minneapolis-based ProGroup, Inc. and the Washington, D.C.-based Diversity Best Practices, created a proclamation for the observance. It is a time to recognize and understand our differences — by gender, race, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability and other factors — while honoring our common humanity.
April 3, 2017
Other News
N.J. Bills Seek Tax Credit for Organ Donors
TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey lawmaker wants to offer tax credits to organ donors, but his no-strings approach is meeting opposition from groups who believe the practice runs afoul of federal law. While the National Organ Transplant Act makes it illegal for hospitals to pay for organs, 19 states provide either a tax credit […]
April 2, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Guillermo: Halted or Not, Travel Ban Already Impacting Higher Ed
Even while both of Donald Trump’s executive orders banning travel from six Muslim-majority nations have been stalled by federal district courts, the fear of a travel ban is already creating negative impacts for schools, according to a new friend of the court brief filed by 31 universities on Friday.
April 2, 2017
African-American
A Book Against Corporal Punishment of African-American Children
In Spare the Kids, Dr. Stacey Patton takes on the issue of corporal punishment and how it harms African-American children.
April 2, 2017
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Future Pell Grant Funding In Danger?
Is the Trump administration working toward eliminating the Pell Grant program’s rainy day fund?
April 2, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Pell Grants Matter
College is not a right; it is a privilege. College attainment is unequally distributed throughout society because of the extensive financial requirements that going to college requires. Because of this unequal distribution, the government of the United States of America created the Pell Grant program with the Higher Education Act of 1965. Pell Grants provide […]
March 31, 2017
Academics
Michigan Base Honors “Nose Art” Painters
HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Three artists who designed “nose art” for U.S. military aircrafts were recognized at a Michigan Air National Guard 127th Wing ceremony for continuing the long-held tradition in military avionics. The ceremony in Selfridge Tuesday was part of a future event celebrating the base’s 100th anniversary and its role in U.S. military […]
March 31, 2017
Policy
Ex-Senator Declines Naval Award
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Former U.S. Sen. Jim Webb announced that he will not accept a Naval Academy Alumni Association award because of recent protests from other alumni. Media outlets report that several alumni wrote to the association starting last week, asking the organization to rescind the Distinguished Graduate Award planned for Webb, a 1968 graduate, […]
March 31, 2017
Policy
Ex-Pentagon Chief Returns to Harvard
BOSTON — Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter is the latest member of Barack Obama’s cabinet heading to the world of academia. Harvard University said Carter is being hired as a professor and as director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a university think tank. Carter follows other top members of the Democratic […]
March 31, 2017
Veterans
University Gives Wounded Warriors a Spot
A dedicated parking space in the university parking ramp has been reserved with a Wounded Warriors Family Support’s combat wounded sign. The reserved parking space is near the ground floor entrance of the parking ramp. The sign and parking space are the result of an effort by Tom Torgerud, university parking operations coordinator, to show […]
March 31, 2017
Policy
Judge Postpones Trump U. Ruling
A federal judge in San Diego declined on Thursday to issue an immediate ruling in the multi-million-dollar settlement related to President Trump’s defunct “Trump University” real estate program, keeping open the possibility that a Florida woman could still sue the president. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who became a lightning rod for Trump’s criticisms during […]
March 31, 2017
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