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Piedmont Tech to offer dual enrollment healthcare courses

In an attempt to address the region’s growing need for health care professionals, Piedmont Technical College will begin offering dual enrollment courses at the Russell Technology Center that will prepare students for the competitive entry programs within its health care division. Read More

Rural Health Clinics in Tennessee Holds Payments

Several recently opened rural health clinics in Tennessee are struggling to stay open after a state program didn’t give them all promised funds. Servolution Health Services began offering services in March to citizens living in the small town of Speedwell where one-fifth of the population lives below the poverty line and experiences high rates of […]

Highmark Health addresses diversity and inclusion at Women’s Summit

Diversity and inclusion create different meanings and challenges to people, organizations and workplace sites. In the spirit of meeting the needs and being equipped to address the requirements and demands of a changing demography, it requires bringing new ideas, perspectives and viewpoints to the table, leading to creativity and innovation. Read More

Food Allergy Management for College Students

As a growing number of adolescents with food allergy begin attending college, an important question of how the medical community can help create safe environments that encourage students with food allergies to fully participate in campus life has emerged. Previous research shows that fatal food-induced anaphylaxis is most common among adolescents and college-age students. However, […]

College students at higher risk of Meningitis B

College students face a higher risk for Meningitis B than their peers who are not in college. That’s according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control. Meningitis B is a rarer strain of the disease… but it is serious and potentially deadly. Read More

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Diversity efforts in Rutgers physician assistant program pays off

In Ghana, Asana Rashad’s grandmother sold her hand-sewn wedding dress so her granddaughter could afford to attend grade school. The girl who once walked barefoot to school went on to college thanks to a student exchange program in the U.S, then chose to pursue her goal to be a physician assistant. Read More

College students can gain rural health experience with summer programs

The National Center for Rural Health Professions at the UIC Health Sciences Campus in Rockford offers three summer opportunities for health professions students interested in gaining experience in rural health care. The six-week “Rural Interprofessional Preceptorship Program: the Preceptorship” program is a full-time, paid opportunity set in two rural communities in Illinois: Gibson City and […]

A New Way To Get College Students Through A Psychiatric Crisis — And Back To School

Sometimes a psychiatric crisis can be triggered by something small. For Alexia Phillips, 21, it was a heated argument with a close family member in February 2017. She remembers the fight blew up before she left the house to go to classes at Queens College in Flushing, New York. By midday, Phillips, then a sophomore, […]

Report claims Penn, Princeton, and other Ivy League colleges discriminate against students with mental illness

A new report from a disability-inclusion foundation has blasted Ivy League schools, including the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University, for discriminating against students with mental illness. It claims the colleges are forcing students to leave campus against their will and without medical justification to protect the schools from legal liability and bad press. The […]

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UNLV grad overcomes acute adversity, highlights winter commencement

On Tuesday evening, a sea of red graduation gowns flooded the Thomas & Mack Center for UNLV’s the 55th Winter Commencement. Families and friends sat above the graduates, weighed down with flowers, gifts and leis ready to cheer on their loved ones who waited eagerly for their names to be called and the degree they […]

Indiana State Student Group Proposes $75 Mental Health Fee

Most Indiana State University students would pay a $75 per semester fee for increased mental health services in the future under a proposal from the Student Government Association. Association President Stephen Lamb says demand for mental health services is increasing and students now generally must wait weeks to see counselors. Read More

Mental health center member charged with setting fire to College Park facility

Prince George’s County police arrested a man for starting a fire at a mental health center in College Park and they say he was a member of the facility. Police believe Paul Franklin Willis, 37, started the fire around 2 a.m. on Friday at On Our Own, a center that helps those dealing with behavioral […]

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