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$25 Million Donation Could Clear Path for New Dental School

EL PASO, Texas—El Paso could be getting a dental school. The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso has announced a $25 million donation for the Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine. Officials say the contribution from the Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Foundation will support the first new dental school in Texas […]

Home Repairs and Checkups Help Seniors Age in Place

WASHINGTON — Where you live plays a big role in staying independent as you age. Now researchers say an innovative program that combined home fix-ups and visits from occupational therapists and nurses improved low-income seniors’ ability to care for themselves in their own homes. Still to be answered is whether that better daily functioning also […]

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Clients Find Purpose at Recovery Center

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — In 2013, Elizabeth Torres, then 47, stared at a bag of crack and a small bundle of bills. For the longtime drug addict, it might have been a relaxed day. She had drugs, money, and she wasn’t even homeless- depending on your definition of a home. But she didn’t want the drugs. […]

VA: Ex-Marine Who Killed 3 Did Not Have PTSD

WICHITA, Kan. — A former Marine who ambushed and killed three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers last month never saw combat in Iraq, but told doctors he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder because a buddy showed him videos of maimed and decapitated bodies, according to newly released Veterans Health Administration medical records. Gavin Long’s doctors […]

Program Seeks to Diversify Physicians in Omaha

OMAHA, Neb. — Two local University of Nebraska institutions have teamed up to create a program to diversify Omaha’s physician population. The Urban Health Opportunities Program will provide tuition and other benefits to undergraduate students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha who want to be doctors in Omaha, particularly in the northeast and southeast […]

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Panel: Screening for Kids in Montana Could Prevent Suicides

HELENA, Mont. —A panel seeking ways to fix Montana’s highest-in-the-nation suicide rate is recommending mandatory depression screening of all schoolchildren beginning at age 11 and programs teaching coping skills to kids as young as 6. Preventing suicide and lifting the stigma of depression is a slow process that will require a cultural shift that begins […]

Med Student Learns With Team That Treated Him

ST. LOUIS —Luke Weaver knew from a very young age he wanted to be a doctor. He just didn’t realize how much experience he would have with hospitals before ever reaching medical school. When the Belleville native was 15 years old, he started feeling very sick. Initially, doctors thought he had a sinus infection or […]

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Canada’s Switched-At-Birth Case Raises Questions

WINNIPEG, Manitoba— The Canadian government is setting up an independent investigation after DNA evidence indicated two men from a northern Manitoba indigenous community were switched at birth. David Tait Jr. was born three days after Leon Swanson in the winter of 1975 at the Norway House Indian Hospital in the western Canadian province. For years, […]

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Brain Injuries Overlooked in Domestic Assaults

CHICAGO— There are no bomb blasts or collisions with burly linemen in Susan Contreras’ past. Her headaches, memory loss and bouts of confused thinking were a mystery until doctors suggested a probable cause: domestic violence. A former partner repeatedly beat her, she says. “He would hit me mainly in the head so that nobody would […]

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Blacks in Texas Face Highest Risk of Maternal Death

HOUSTON — Black women face the greatest risk for pregnancy-related death in Texas, according to a new report. The report released last week found that cardiac events, overdose by legal or illegal prescription drugs, and high blood pressure disorders are the leading causes of maternal death. “This confirms what we feared — that many of […]

“Buddy Check 22” Helping Veterans

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — Some Scottsbluff-area residents have joined a social media movement and are meeting monthly to decrease the suicide rate of veterans. Nationally, Buddy Check 22 maintains a Facebook site that, through its exchanges of information, tries to change the outlook on life some veterans have and provide an outlet where they can talk […]

Native Communities Get Help

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Montana State University and its partners have received $20 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to address health disparities facing Native communities in Montana and Alaska. University officials say the new American Indian-Alaska Native Clinical and Translational Research Program includes collaborators from Blackfeet Community College, the University of Montana, the […]

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