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MORGAN WATKINS – Side effects public media Delanor Manson is the first Black person to lead the Kentucky Nurses Association since it was founded 117 years ago. She has had a long and varied career in nursing that took her across the world as a now-retired Navy officer […]
MiKayla Dotson ’23 at the Multicultural Graduation celebration. MiKayla Dotson ’23 was working as a student ambassador when a chance encounter led to an internship. Leading a father-and-son pair on a tour of the Clark campus, Dotson quickly discovered that she and the parent had similar research interests. The father was Aaron Haddock, director […]
Since the founding of Catholic care in the United States, providing high-quality compassionate care for mothers and babies has been an integral part of the church’s healing ministry. The women religious who pioneered Catholic health care in rural and urban communities across the country in the 19th century saw there was a critical need for […]
© Alena Kryazheva – stock.adobe.com Napping can increase creativity Adequate sleep is already essential to overall health, but a short nap can take your wellness to the next level by bumping your creativity. A recent study by MIT and Harvard Medical School researchers asked participants to dream about a topic right as . . .
A doctor holds the hand of a boy in a hospital bed. (Getty images) Black medical professionals are being courted by the Senate to help fill gaps caused by a health care worker shortage that is projected to leave the U.S. with more than 100,000 fewer physicians over the next decade.
Atlanta KFF Health News — When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician. As a charge nurse at Northeast Georgia Health System, she was trained to de-escalate violent situations. But that day in spring 2021, as Destiny intervened, for several minutes the . . […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans temporarily put on hold Monday a federal judge’s ruling striking down a part of the Affordable Care Act that requires most insurers to cover preventative care including vaccines and screenings for cancer, diabetes and HIV. Without comment, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]
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On April 10, the federal national emergency ended early. This emergency order, which was separate from the federal public health emergency that’s ending this week, was originally set to also expire on May 11 — but a bipartisan congressional resolution moved to bring this order to a close ahead of schedule. Late last week, on […]
The current reimbursement system in the United States discourages some forms of innovations in health care. The development of new antibiotics that aren’t needed now but could be down the road are a case in point. A subscription-based pricing model could address this problem. Standard ways of reimbursing for innovations can create disincentives for the […]