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California Short in Latino Doctors, Report Finds

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new report says California is dramatically lacking in Latino doctors despite the state’s growing population. The report released Friday by the Latino Physicians of California says although nearly 40 percent of the state’s population is Latino, just five percent of the state’s physicians are. The nonprofit advocacy group says that means […]

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School Hopes to Bring Telemedicine to Kentucky Mountains

HAZARD, Ky. — An eastern Kentucky community college is embracing the advances of telemedicine, a technology that allows health care professionals to see their patients from miles away. WYMT-TV reports that the Hazard Community and Technical College will in January begin offering a telemedicine technician assistant program. Program Director Shaun Neace says the concept of […]

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Getting Sugary Drinks Off the Table in Indian Country

Sugary-sweetened beverages are the single largest category of caloric intake in children. Their consumption has increased by 500 percent in the last 50 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Whether they be in the form of soft drinks, fruit drinks, sports drinks, energy drinks, sweetened milk or other alternatives, they are […]

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Helping Doctors Tackle Implicit Black Gay Male Bias

While the threat of HIV/AIDS has decreased significantly thanks to advances in antiretroviral therapy, treatment as prevention, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), black men who have sex with men (MSM) are still affected at a disproportionate rate. In February, the CDC released an eye-opening study which claimed at the current rate of infection, one in two […]

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NIH Awards 23andme a Grant to Address Disparities

The NIH awarded 23andMe a $1.7 million grant to develop a sequencing panel to address the underrepresentation of minorities, specifically African Americans, in health research. The company, which markets home genetic spit tests, will sequence the genomes of more than one million customers who have agreed to participate in research. It will create a sequencing […]

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Black Doctors Say They Singled Out for Sanctions

A group of Black doctors in Los Angeles and throughout California have been waging a long, valiant, and lonely fight against a practice which has had disastrous effects on the quality of medical care in poor, and underserved communities and harmful consequences for the doctors. The practice is medical racial profiling. This is a systematic […]

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Study Aims to Discover How Much Kids Move

AMHERST, Mass. —Two University of Massachusetts-Amherst researchers have received a $2.2 million federal grant to figure out just how much physical activity kids get. John Sirard, a kinesiologist, and John Staudenmayer, a statistician, plan to use the grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop methods for establishing more accurate assessments of physical activity […]

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Connecticut Hopes to Retain Medical Grads

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut officials, concerned that graduates of its medical schools are fleeing the state, are looking for ways to encourage those freshly minted doctors to remain. State Rep. Prasad Srinivasin, a board-certified allergist and the only physician in the General Assembly, said he’s worried Connecticut is losing both home-grown and out-of-state medical students […]

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Reports Find Care at Native American Hospitals Substandard

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The internal watchdog of the Health and Human Services Department says the often substandard quality of care at hospitals serving Native Americans is the result of outdated equipment and technology, lack of resources, and difficulty attracting and keeping skilled staff. The Office of Inspector General on Friday released two reports that […]

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Youth With Disabilities Get Internships

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A new on-campus internship program at Michigan State University aims to help young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities prepare for the workplace. Under the program, Spartan Project SEARCH, 10 students get on-the-job support as interns in offices, residence halls, cafes, doctor’s offices and animal clinics. Each of the interns, who […]

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Family Demands Charges in Shooting of Unstable Man

SACRAMENTO, Calif. —The family of a man killed in July by Sacramento police after 911 callers reported he was waving a knife and acting erratically demanded that two officers face murder charges after dash-cam video revealed they talked inside their police cruiser about running him down. Joseph Mann, who was mentally unstable and homeless, dodged […]

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Geisinger Health System to Acquire Medical College

SCRANTON, Pa. —Geisinger Health System has announced plans to acquire a Scranton-based medical college. The acquisition of The Commonwealth Medical College and formation of a new Geisinger Commonwealth College of Medicine will be pending regulatory approval from local and state officials as well as accrediting agencies. The medical college welcomed its first students in 2009 […]

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