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UA and GAPSA to Provide Free Menstrual Products With New Pilot Program
Penn has approved a pilot program to provide free menstrual products in several buildings across campus — a move that comes after students called on administrators to make the products more accessible last semester. The Undergraduate Assembly and Graduate and Professional Student Assembly have held several meetings with administrators from the Vice Provost for University […]
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University of Minnesota Study Finds Rural, Minority Health Gap
If you want a longer, healthier life, would you opt for green acres or a penthouse view? Apologies for the dated TV sitcom reference (“Green Acres” can be found on YouTube, kiddos), but if you choose green acres you’re in for a surprise. “There is an abundance of research, especially in recent years, showing really […]
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Sen. Kamala Harris Leads Effort to Create Black Maternal Health Week
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, is leading a team of 16 senators to introduce a resolution that would designate April 11 to 17 as Black Maternal Health Week in an effort to raise awareness regarding the Black maternal health crisis. The resolution, which was created to bring attention to racial disparities and address discrimination in maternal […]
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Ohio State Doctors Working to Bring More Black Males Into Medicine
Doctors from Ohio State University are working to bring more black men into the medical field, which they say will also lead to better outcomes for patients in underserved communities. At the University of Akron’s annual Black Male Summit, Drs. Joshua Joseph and Darrell Gray presented data showing that medical school admissions for Black men have essentially remained flat since […]
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Smoking Pot Versus Tobacco: What Science Says About Lighting Up
As more states make it legal to smoke marijuana, some government officials, researchers and others worry what that might mean for one of the country’s biggest public health successes: curbing cigarette smoking. Though there are notable differences in health research findings on tobacco and marijuana, the juxtaposition strikes some as jarring after generations of Americans […]
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Med School Cadaver’s Heart Was in The Right Place (But Her Other Organs Weren’t)
A woman’s body that was recently donated to a medical school in Oregon provided an anatomy lesson that was much stranger than instructors expected. When students at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland dissected the cadaver of the 99-year-old woman, they found that her liver and abdominal organs were transposed — as […]
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Whitney Witt Presents a ‘Roadmap For The College of Health’
Inaugural College of Health Dean Whitney Witt shared her working vision for Lehigh’s new College of Health in a forum on April 2 during National Public Health Week. The college, which will be the second in the nation to offer students an undergraduate degree in population health, is set to open in the 2020-2021 academic year. A […]
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Suicide Prevention And Mental Health Awareness Event Draws Crowd to URI
“Suicide prevention and mental-health awareness is something that’s just so important. It needs to be vocalized more on campus.” Thus did University of Rhode Island junior Kylee Harris capture the essence not only of the school’s annual “Be 5K” fund-raising walk and run Sunday but also URI’s overall approach to caring for the minds of […]
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Harvard Economics Department Begins Efforts to Improve Ph.D. Student Mental Health
The Harvard University Department of Economics has begun its efforts of advancing its graduate students’ mental health after a survey distributed to Ph.D. students in the department found that they are experiencing high percentages of anxiety and depression. Conducted by Harvard University Health Services in 2018, the mental health survey found that the rates of […]
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Mumps Vaccine Clinic at Temple Delivers 2,285 Doses in First Day to Students Who Lined up For MMR Shots
On its first day, Temple University’s free vaccine clinic delivered 2,285 doses of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine to students and faculty in the wake of a campus mumps outbreak that has sickened 106 people. The clinic comes two months after the initial case — thought to have been contracted outside the area […]
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University Hospitals Joins National Health System Network to Transform Care for Medicaid Patients
University Hospitals (UH) has joined with leading health systems across the United States to participate in the Medicaid Transformation Project (MTP), a national effort to transform health care and related social needs for the nearly 75 million Americans who rely on Medicaid for health care. Led by AVIA and Andy Slavitt, former acting administrator of the Centers […]
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WPU to Offer First Bachelor’s in Disability Studies Degree in NJ
William Paterson University (WPU) has announced it will soon offer the first bachelor’s program for disability studies in the state of New Jersey, to address the high student demand for the program. The disability studies program will be designed for students who are interested in working with people with disabilities in the education and human […]
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