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Marshall U. Students Learn About Stigmas

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A diagnosis of HIV/AIDS comes with new medications (hopefully) and a change of lifestyle, but it also comes with a new stigma attached to a person. “As a physician, you really see the clinical aspect of treating a patient,” said Abbie Short, third-year Marshall University Honors College student. “You just see them […]

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Hospitals Seek Alternatives to Opioids

BALTIMORE — A car crash shattered Stuart Anders’ thigh, leaving pieces of bone sticking through his skin. Yet Anders begged emergency room doctors not to give him powerful opioid painkillers — he’d been addicted once before and panicked at the thought of relapsing. “I can’t lose what I worked for,” he said. The nation’s opioid […]

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Death Rate for Blacks Drops 25 Percent

The death rate for African-Americans (blacks) declined 25 percent from 1999 to 2015, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report released, but disparities persist between blacks and whites. Although blacks as a group are living longer, their life expectancy is still four years less than that of whites. Disparities in all age groups are […]

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Native American Health Exhibit on Tour

WICHITA FALLS, TX – For the next six weeks, Midwestern State University’s Moffett Library will feel more like a museum as the traveling exhibit “Native Voices Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness” makes residence in the leisure reading area. MSU was one of six sites selected to host the exhibit that allows visitors to […]

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NIH Research Helps Asthma Sufferers

May is Asthma Awareness Month, and the National Institutes of Health is finding solutions to improve the health of the nearly 25 million people in the United States who currently have asthma. In recent decades, the prevalence of asthma has been increasing, resulting in millions of urgent medical visits and missed days of work and […]

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Md. Governor Orders Study of Pot Disparities

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has ordered a study of the state’s developing medical marijuana industry to ensure opportunities for minority participation. Hogan directed the Governor’s Office of Minority Affairs to initiate a disparity study. He instructed the office to work together with the state’s medical marijuana commission and the transportation department. “As […]

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Native American Health Director Resigns

Montana’s first-ever director of American Indian Health says she thinks state government lacks the commitment for her to do meaningful work, and is resigning. Mary Lynn Billy-Old Coyote was appointed by Governor Steve Bullock in March of 2016. She submitted her resignation Saturday. Billy-Old Coyote’s letter says that she was recently informed that her Office […]

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Nurse Trainees Talk Patients’ Language

BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota nursing program is running simulations in Spanish to increase cultural competency of nursing students. The Dakota Nursing Program at Bismarck State College began its collaboration with a Spanish professor’s class to run scenarios in Spanish, with the help of a student-translator, The Bismarck Tribune reported. “They’re seeing more and […]

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Rare, Deadly Mouse-Borne Virus Increases

As the weather warms and people turn to spring cleaning and outdoor activities such as camping and hiking, they need to beware of a rare but deadly virus that is spread through mouse droppings and kills up to 40 percent of people who become infected, public health officials said. The severe respiratory illness is known […]

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Police Handling in Seizure Case Probed

LARAMIE, Wyo. — A University of Wyoming student claims campus police mistreated him, breaking his wrist and bruising him, by forcibly removing him from class while he was recovering from a seizure. Police removed senior petroleum engineering student Garret VonKrosigk from class and hospitalized him for the protection of himself and others, university spokesman Chad […]

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Connecticut Doctor Makes House Calls

STONINGTON, Conn. — For 87-year-old Bob Livermore and 88-year-old Malcolm Wheeler, having “Dr. Mike” come to their apartments in the StoneRidge Retirement Community has made the infirmities of old age easier to bear. “The last thing you want to do when you’re sick is get out of bed and get in a car and go […]

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“Standards of Care” Can Help Diabetes Patients

POLSON — People diagnosed with diabetes can achieve a normal life if they adopt “Standards of care,” as promoted at Tribal Health Department’s annual Diabetes Care Day. Interactive booth displays featuring topics in healthy eating, exercise, foot care, and prescription management educated guests on health care standards required to prevent or manage diabetes. “Taking care […]

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