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McGill interns at Chickasaw Medical Center
The Ada News - Oklahoma
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Addison McGill, Byng, is a second-year medical student at OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine. As a requirement for her Summer Tribal Externship through OSU, McGill wanted to talk about her experience at the Chickasaw Nation Medical Center Family...
Teacher Suggests Porn | Pharmacist Kills Dog | House Explodes: MD News
Patch
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July 3, 2025
On the weekend, we present a week in review of the top stories and headlines from across Maryland. Here's a roundup of some of the biggest stories across the state. You can also find your local Patch and catch up on those stories by clicking here....
TONI SAYS: Help, Medicare is not paying my medical claim!
The Register-Herald - West Virginia
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Dear Toni: My husband recently retired from his job, and because I am over 65, I need to sign up for Medicare. I went to the local Social Security office with the Medicare documents that Toni discusses in her Medicare articles: the Request for...
OSU-COM student explores rural healthcare during McAlester externship
McAlester News-Capital - Oklahoma
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Amanda Villamil, a second-year medical student at Oklahoma State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (OSU-COM), spent two weeks this summer gaining clinical experience at a Family Medicine Clinic in McAlester as part of the school’s rural...
'I was pregnant when I thought I'd pulled a muscle at yoga – now I have months to live'
Daily Star
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July 5, 2025
A mum-to-be who thought she'd simply pulled a muscle in her leg at yoga was horrified when it turned out to be a rare cancer - and given just six months to live. Zoë Handscomb-Edwards was in a yoga class with a friend when she spotted the lump on...
Aloha spirit on full display in Washington, D.C., during 9th annual Hawai‘i on the Hill
Big Island Now - Hawaii
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June 21, 2025
More than 200 people from Hawai‘i, representing 90-plus businesses and nonprofits from throughout the state, descended upon Washington, D.C., last week for the ninth annual Hawai‘i on the Hill at the U.S. Capitol. U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono of...
West Virginians already struggle to find the health care they need; It could get much, much worse
The Register-Herald - West Virginia
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CHARLESTON – Emergency rooms in West Virginia are overwhelmed with patients. Cots sit in hallways. Patients in waiting rooms scream in pain. Many people who use drugs don’t have local treatment centers. Local doctors’ offices are in short supply....
Implementation of Patient Complaint Management Mechanisms for Quality Improvement in Maternal Health Services: Exploration of Provider Perspectives at Mkuranga District Hospital
Dove Medical Press
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July 5, 2025
Background Globally, there have been concerns regarding quality improvement in delivering maternal, newborn, and child health services. This contention triggers accountability from both the supply side (healthcare workers) and the demand side,...
Two Local Teens Headed to D.C. to Represent California in Breakthrough T1D 2025 Children’s Congress
Los Cerritos Community Newspaper - California
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June 28, 2025
LCCN Staff Report CERRITOS, CA — Two talented youth from the Gateway Cities will soon be swapping textbooks for talking points as they head to Washington, D.C. this July to represent California at the Breakthrough T1D 2025 Children’s Congress, a...
Utah Republicans celebrate ‘big, beautiful bill’ passage; health advocates dismayed
Daily Herald - Utah
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Jennifer Shutt, States NewsroomHouse Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to reporters inside the Capitol building in Washington., D.C., on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. Utah Republican leaders celebrated the final passage of the “big, beautiful bill”...
Ky. Republicans in Congress hail passage of bill the state’s hospitals call ‘devastating’
The Daily Independent - Kentucky
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July 4, 2025
Despite Kentucky hospitals’ warnings of “devastating” consequences, four of the six Kentuckians in the U.S. House voted “yes” Thursday to President Donald Trump’s tax and spending plan. Republican Thomas Massie and Democrat Morgan McGarvey opposed...
Relief from drug industry middlemen stalled in Kentucky as independent pharmacies struggle
The Paducah Sun - Kentucky
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July 5, 2025
Kentucky’s independent pharmacies, facing ongoing financial pressure, had hoped for relief from a new law meant to give them more clout against prescription drug industry middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs. “Most pharmacies were...
The Vietnam War – Ann Benson Rudolph – Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Vietnam deployment orders
Marshall Independent - Minnesota
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We have been learning about Ann (Benson) Rudolph, who graduated from high school in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, in 1960 and from the nursing program at Northfield’s St. Olaf College in 1964. She owed the Army two years’ service as a nurse for their...
Transcendent Spaces: The Role of Museums in Medical Education on Religion and Spirituality
Dove Medical Press
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July 5, 2025
Correspondence: Eojin Choi, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 733 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA, Email [email protected]Abstract: Religion and spirituality are increasingly recognized as important aspects of patient care and...
Rep. Jimmy Panetta criticizes Speaker Johnson's tax bill amid concerns over healthcare cuts
Monterey Times - California
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July 3, 2025
Jimmy Panetta U.S. House of Representatives from California | Official U.S. House HeadshotJimmy Panetta U.S. House of Representatives from California | Official U.S. House Headshot Rep. Jimmy Panetta, who has been serving in the U.S. Congress...
Science Popular Science 100 years ago, scientists predicted we’d live to 1,000 years old
Yahoo News
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When Frederick Grant Banting discovered how to isolate insulin from animals in 1921, the young Canadian doctor—a WWI veteran and former farm boy—changed the calculus of diabetes forever. Prior to the 1920s, the disease killed more than 80 percent...
ANOTHER OPINION: Current Trump Administration is hazardous to the health of Americans
The Goshen News - Indiana
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America has been, for generations, the envy of the world in terms of its medical research breakthroughs. From the development of penicillin in the early 1940s, to Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine in the 1950s, to the measles and mumps vaccines of the...
9th annual Hawaiʻi on the Hill brings spirit of aloha to Washington, D.C.
Maui Now - Hawaii
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More than 200 people from Hawai‘i, representing 90-plus businesses and nonprofits from throughout the state, descended upon Washington, D.C., last week for the ninth annual Hawai‘i on the Hill at the US Capitol. US Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawai‘i,...
100 years ago, scientists predicted we’d live to 1,000 years old
Popular Science
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July 5, 2025
When Frederick Grant Banting discovered how to isolate insulin from animals in 1921, the young Canadian doctor—a WWI veteran and former farm boy—changed the calculus of diabetes forever. Prior to the 1920s, the disease killed more than 80 percent...
Uncovering Diagnostic Correlations Between Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Using Instrumental Variable Models in Cardiometabolic Patients: Evidence from 1.2 Million Records
Dove Medical Press
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July 4, 2025
Background Current research on chronic diseases is mostly based on disease classifications of Western medicine (WM).1–3 By cross-coding leading patterns of WM with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) syndromes, one can examine patterns of alignment...