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Med Center’s Approach Improves Blood Pressure Results for Blacks, Hispanics

Serving a population made up largely of African-American and Hispanic patients, a Miami primary care and multispecialty group saw the same racial and ethnic health disparities in hypertension that are rampant in the American population at large. But the team at Doctor’s Medical Center (DMC) was able to secure a 16 percent improvement in its […]

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Judge Rules Against HHS on Ending Teen Pregnancy Program

A federal judge in D.C. ruled Thursday that the Trump administration’s cut to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program were unlawful. Last summer, the administration notified 81 organizations that their five-year grants through the program would end in 2018, rather than in 2020, prompting multiple lawsuits. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled in one of those cases […]

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Trade Group: Short-Term Plan’s Impact Underestimated

The Trump Administration has underestimated the impact short-term limited duration insurance plans would have on the Affordable Care Act market, according to a study commissioned by the Associated for Community Affiliated Plans. While the White House projected that its short-term plans would decrease enrollment in Healthcare.gov by 100,000 to 200,000 ACA consumers in 2019, the […]

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Blue States Fight Dismantling of ACA

Despite attempts by the Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, blue states are fighting back to prop up the 2010 law. New Jersey is nearly set to implement its own individual mandate for health care coverage after congress rolled back the requirement at the federal level. The New Jersey Health […]

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Heart Health Disparities Persist for African Americans

April is the National Minority Health Month in the United States. Although the health care field has come a long way to address health inequities, a new report published this month by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services show that ethnic disparities persist today. The report highlights significant differences in several reported experiences and […]

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Gender Pay Gap Growing Problem for Doctors

The Medscape report said male primary care physicians earn an average of $239,000 annually, while women on average earn $203,000. That’s a 2% increase in the wage gap since last year. The gap is even worse for specialists. Male specialists earn $358,000 while female specialists receive $263,000, which is a 36% gap. The report echoed […]

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New Rules Chip Away at Obamacare

The Trump administration issued a ton of regulatory changes Monday that chip away at the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Moving forward, states will have more flexibility to set their own standards and people will be given new exemptions to avoid the health care law’s individual mandate penalty. The 523-page regulation is one that comes out […]

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Democratic Attorneys General Fight Texas ACA Suit

SACRAMENTO, Calif.  — Sixteen Democratic attorneys general are pushing back against a Texas lawsuit aimed at striking down former President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra led his state, 14 others and the District of Columbia in filing a motion to intervene in the Texas case and defend the law, suggesting […]

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Millennials at Risk for Heart Disease

Many heart disease risk factors are the same for everyone. Lifestyle choices such as insufficient exercise, obesity, nicotine addition and excessive alcohol consumption are factors that put many adults at risk. But Dr. Regis Fernandes, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic (a nonprofit medical practice and research group in Rochester, Minnesota), says such behaviors seem […]

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Proposed Regulations Could Penalize Immigrants

The latest leaks in Washington indicate that the Trump administration remains serious about discouraging documented immigrants and their children from using federally funded health and nutrition programs – a policy change that could have wide-ranging implications for the Philadelphia School District and its students. “What they’re saying is that they’re going to greatly broaden the […]

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VA Choice Could Open Way to Privatization

For the last year, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin insisted the VA would not be privatized on his watch. Now, thanks to a Koch-supported coup at the top of the second-largest department in government, his watch has ended — and the battle over privatization persists. For years the Koch brothers have been hovering around the […]

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First Responders Improving Interactions for People with Autism

First responders areare increasingly likely to respond to an incident involving a person with autism. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the fastest-growing developmental disability affecting about 1 in 68 children in the United States. On a global scale approximately 1 percent of the world population has ASD. How can first responders adapt their response when […]

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