Health Care August 2019

Doctors Weigh In On New Green Card Rule

Health experts are warning that the new rule that would deny green cards to many immigrants using public assistance programs like Medicaid will lead to poorer health and rising costs.

Health Care August 2019

Billionaire Donates $35M To Universities

A billionaire has donated $10 million to the Stanford Microbiome Therapies Initiative and $25 million to launch the UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine.

Health Care August 2019

Alabama Getting $6.3M To Fight Opioids

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is giving Alabama $6.3 million to help fight opioid addiction as part of a nationwide program to fight the opioid crisis.

Health Care August 2019

Quinnipiac U Getting $750K

Quinnipiac University’s Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine is receiving a $750,000 award, which will help fund the school’s first family medicine residency program.

Health Care August 2019

IU’s Cancer Center Gets NCI Designation

The National Cancer Institute has bestowed their highest recognition to The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center proclaiming it a Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Health Care August 2019

Trauma Care Honoree Named Interim Dean

Dr. John Fildes has been named interim dean of the School of Medicine at the UNLV. Dr. Fildes directed trauma care for some of the victims of the Las Vegas Strip massacre in 2017.

Health Care August 2019

Boom In Naloxone Tied To Fewer Drug Deaths

Naloxone, an overdose-reversing drug, is being tied to fewer drug-related deaths in the U.S. Overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in the United States in decades.

Health Care August 2019

Louisiana Launching Medical Marijuana

Louisiana is launching medical marijuana, making it the first Deep South state to dispense medical marijuana. More than 30 states (now including Louisiana) allow medical marijuana.

Health Care August 2019

SUNY Medical School Receives $2.7M Grant

SUNY’s Upstate Medical University College of Nursing has received a four-year, $2.7 million grant to support students who are interested in working in rural or underserved areas.

Health Care August 2019

Physician Pipeline Preparatory Program

The Physician Pipeline Preparatory Program (P4), which was designed in part to encourage diversity in the medical profession, is producing results with its first medical students.

Health Care August 2019

Purdue Pharma Hearing Protests

Protestors made up of activists and parents who lost children to overdoses rallied outside Suffolk County Superior Court as the judge heard arguments regarding Purdue Pharma.

Health Care August 2019

Opioid Case Could Go To Supreme Court

The Sackler family, which are the owners of Purdue Pharma, could be forced to return billions of dollars if Arizona’s AG succeeds in getting their case heard by the Supreme Court.