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New Concern on College Campuses: ‘Drunkorexia,’ a Combination Drinking and Eating Disorder

My college experience included this life-skills lesson: Drink alcohol on a full stomach, so you don’t get inebriated too quickly. Of course, most college students shouldn’t be drinking at all, but we know from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism that close to 60 percent of college students ages 18 to 22 do consume alcohol, […]

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School Programs Help Students With Life Issues

Columbia County high schools have set up student life centers to provide services on issues including mental health and suicide prevention. The former textbook room in the Grovetown High School library no longer contains books to educate students, but it is still helping to transform them. Read More

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First Measles Case Reported in San Antonio by University Health System

A case of the measles virus has been diagnosed in San Antonio, officials from University Health System have confirmed amid an outbreak of the disease that’s swept through Texas and 10 other states.  UHS diagnosed the patient last week via a lab test, spokeswoman Elizabeth Allen confirmed. Read More

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Howard University President Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick Runs for Sickle Cell Cure

Running an institution of higher learning is one challenge after another. But that hasn’t stopped Howard University president Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick from taking on another challenge. Frederick, 48, who was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth, has launched the Run to Cure Sickle Cell campaign to increase awareness about the disease that disproportionately afflicts Blacks […]

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Health Care Educator Focuses On Closing Health Disparities

The University of New Mexico (UNM) has named clinician and public health researcher Dr. Tracie Collins as the dean of its newly established College of Population Health, effective July 2019. Collins joins the UNM faculty after serving as the Kansas Health Foundation Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public health […]

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Researchers Plan to Use Artificial Intelligence to Improve Health Care

Researchers at the University of Iowa are working on developing algorithms in artificial intelligence to learn from sample data and ultimately attempt to predict disease outcomes. Graduate research assistant Zhihui Guo, who has worked with the team for two years, is very interested in the potential it has for health care. Read More

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Racial Equality, Social Justice Advocate Dr. Bill Jenkins Dies at 73

Dr. Bill Jenkins, an advocate for racial equality and social justice who tried to stop the Tuskegee syphilis experiment that utilized Black patients as guinea pigs died recently at the age of 73. Jenkins worked as an epidemiologist battling racism in health care. The cause was due to complications of an inflammatory disease called sarcoidosis, according […]

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Ohio Governor Appoints First Woman as Director of State Department of Health

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has announced the appointment of Dr. Amy Acton as the first woman to serve as director of the Ohio Department of Health. Acton has decades of experience working as a doctor and administrator, and most recently served as a community research and grants management officer at the Columbus Foundation. She also […]

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Dr. Melissa Weddell Appointed Department Chair in ASU’s Beaver College of Health Sciences

Appalachian State University’s Beaver College of Health Sciences (BCHS) has appointed Dr. Melissa Weddell as chair of the Department of Recreation Management and Physical Education (RMPE). Weddell has worked at Appalachian State for nine years, most recently as an interim chair for the RMPE department. She also served as program director of the department’s recreation […]

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Adolescent Researcher Named a Duke Health Scholar

Adolescent development researcher Dr. Sherika Hill has been named a Translating Duke Health Scholar in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Duke University School of Medicine. In addition to her new role, Hill currently serves as a senior research associate at the School of Medicine where she works on studies that look at […]

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Academic Programs Aim to Close Diversity Gap in Medicine

Blacks and Latinos make up more than 30 percent of the U.S. population, but only 10.3 percent of medical school graduates, a number that hasn’t changed much in 50 years. It’s a stark reminder that even though the U.S. population is becoming more diverse, medicine isn’t. Now, universities and community organizations around the country are […]

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Joint Partnership Trains Nurses to Improve Health Care Outcomes in Alabama

Tuskegee University seniors Natasia Fanning and Roneshia Rudolph are part of an inaugural cohort of Registered Nurse Primary Care (RNPC) Scholars who are working collaboratively to provide quality health care and improve the health outcomes of underserved communities in the state of Alabama. By participating in the “Building a Resilient Primary Care Registered Nursing Workforce […]

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