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Man Awarded $2.5M from VA Hospital

PHOENIX — A judge awarded $2.5 million to a military veteran who said that his now-terminal cancer would have been curable had the Veterans Administration hospital in Phoenix diagnosed it sooner. U.S. Magistrate Judge Michelle Burns ruled on March 6 that a nurse practitioner who found abnormalities in Steven Harold Cooper’s prostate during an examination […]

Trump Voters Stand the Most to Lose in Repeal

Americans who swept President Trump to victory — lower-income, older voters in conservative, rural parts of the country — stand to lose the most in federal healthcare aid under a Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, according to a Times analysis of county voting and tax credit data. Among those hit […]

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Sam’s Club Offers Health Screenings to Members

Sam’s Club is partnering with digital health kiosk company higi to bring self-service screenings to 622 Sam’s Club locations nationwide that have pharmacies, MobiHealthNews reports. The screening stations — free to Sam’s Club members — allow users to check their pulse, blood pressure, weight and body mass index, and track and share information over time […]

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Refugee Ban Hurts Underserved Areas

In early 2001, an Iranian family fled their home and landed in Texas as political refugees. The mother, who went to medical school in Iran, passed her boards in the US and now works as a psychiatrist; she largely serves children in poverty. Her son, just 15 when they moved here, is now in his […]

HHS Head Vows Protection for Medicare

HHS Secretary Tom Price said during an interview with CBS Face the Nation that the Trump administration “believes in the guarantee of Medicare for our seniors.” President Donald Trump indicated during a recent address to Congress that his administration did not have interest in making changes to Medicare. Read More

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UK Plans Med School in Northern Part of State

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The University of Kentucky has announced plans for a third regional medical school, with the latest campus to be in the northern part of the state. UK said in a statement that it has partnered with Northern Kentucky University and St. Elizabeth Healthcare to develop a campus where students will receive a […]

Temperature Extremes in Pregnancy Increase Risk

Extreme hot or cold temperatures during pregnancy may increase the risk that infants born at term will be of low birth weight, according to a study of U.S. women by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. The study was published in Environmental Research. The authors found that exposure to atypically cold temperature during the […]

First Native American Doctor Lived Inspiring Life

When 21-year-old Susan La Flesche first stepped off the train in Philadelphia in early October 1886, nearly 1,300 miles from her Missouri River homeland, she’d already far surpassed the country’s wildest expectations for a member of the so-called “vanishing race.” Born during the Omaha’s summer buffalo hunt in June 1865 in the northeast corner of […]

Facebook Post on VA Conditions Goes Viral

DURHAM, N.C.—A former Marine and his wife say the scene inside a Veterans Administration hospital in Durham, North Carolina, was so shocking that they felt compelled to take pictures and post them to Facebook. Now thousands of people are expressing outrage and the head of the medical center says an employee involved has been removed […]

Trial Begins Over VA Delay in Cancer Case

PHOENIX — A lawyer for a military veteran opened a medical-negligence trial by saying his client’s now-terminal prostate cancer would have been curable had the Veterans Administration hospital in Phoenix diagnosed it sooner. Attorneys defending the Veterans Administration countered that a nurse practitioner involved in the case of Steven Harold Cooper complied with the applicable […]

Epidemic Tracking Tool Wins Science Prize

A prototype online platform that uses real-time visualization and viral genome data to track the spread of global pathogens such as Zika and Ebola is the grand prize winner of the Open Science Prize(link. The international team competition is an initiative by the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust and the […]

Youth With Type 2 Diabetes Face Most Complications

Teens and young adults with type 2 diabetes develop kidney, nerve, and eye diseases – as well as some risk factors for heart disease – more often than their peers with type 1 diabetes in the years shortly after diagnosis. The results are the latest findings of the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth(link is external) […]

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