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U.K. Gets $11M for Research on Obesity and Cancer

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The University of Kentucky says it has received an $11.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund a center to study links between obesity and cancer. Leaders at the school in Lexington announced details of the grant on Monday, saying it will fund the UK Center for Cancer […]

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Data Show Disparities in Medicare Advantage

Significant gender, racial and ethnic differences exist in care received by beneficiaries of Medicare Advantage, according to two reports released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. One report compared quality of care for women and men while the other report looked at racial and ethnic differences in healthcare experiences and clinical care in […]

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Study: Mental Health Care System Is Broken

The state of health care in the US may arguably be improving – partly thanks to the imperfect addition of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and partly due to the deserved collapse of the catastrophic American Health Care Act (AHCA) of 2017 – but it is still rife with problems. Mental health care, in particular, […]

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Trump Budget Cuts Hit Home in N.C.

Renewed concerns about the local impact of President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act could affect some of Haywood County’s neediest — and smallest — residents. “Obviously we don’t participate in what goes on with the Trump administration,” said Haywood County Board of County Commissioners Chairman Kirk […]

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Panel Drops Opposition to Prostate Screening

CHICAGO — An influential U.S. government health panel is dropping its opposition to routine prostate cancer screening in favor of letting men decide for themselves after talking with their doctor. The new draft guidelines echo those of several leading medical groups, but they don’t make the decision any easier for men: With their doctor’s help, […]

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W.Va. Mayor Takes on Drug Distributors

WELCH, W.Va. — In this once prosperous West Virginia coal town of 1,900 people, residents say it’s not just the decades-long demise of mining that hurt the community — it’s the scourge of drug use that came with it. Here, almost everyone knows someone who became addicted. And the Appalachian town is fighting back by […]

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Rural Hospitals at Risk If ACA Ends

More rural hospitals could fail if lawmakers replace the ACA with a plan that reduces Medicare and Medicaid funding, on which they heavily rely. According to a new study by Health Management Partners, Medicare and Medicaid patients account for 63% of rural hospitals’ volume, compared with 49% at urban hospitals. Read More

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Cancer Deaths Decline for Most Types

Overall cancer death rates continue to decrease in men, women, and children for all major racial and ethnic groups, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2014. The report finds that death rates during the period 2010-2014 decreased for 11 of the 16 most common types of cancer […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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Gene Sequencing Project Will Focus on Latinos

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Sanford Health, one of the largest health systems in the country, is partnering with the flagship hospital of the Miami Children’s Health System to sequence the genes of nearly 1,000 Latinos and Hispanics to better understand the health needs of the populations. Philanthropist Denny Sanford and Sanford Health have given $7 […]

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California Woman Lobbies for Safer Nail Salons

OAKLAND, Calif. — It was the swag-bags that convinced community health organizer Julia Liou to redraw the battle plan in a fight to reduce the hazardous chemical exposures of nail-salon workers, most of them low-paid Asian immigrant women. In 2005, Liou watched at California’s state Capitol as dozens of lobbyists gave away bags of lipsticks […]

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