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Gospel Singer Marcus Stanley Knows Painkiller-to-Addiction Path

On June 19, just two days after Dylann Roof, a self-styled White supremacist, shot and killed nine African Americans praying at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, an unusual Facebook posting drew international attention. “I love you Dylann, even in the midst of the dark and pain you have caused, but more importantly, HE […]

August 19, 2015

Disparities

Obama Signs Order on Federal HIV Priorities

President Obama on July 30 signed an Executive Order detailing principles and priorities to guide collective national work to address HIV through 2020. The original goals of the strategy first released in 2010 were to reduce new HIV infections, increase access to care and improve health outcomes for those living with HIV, reduce HIV disparities […]

August 3, 2015

Policies

SC Democrats Back Medicaid Expansion

COLUMBIA, S.C.  — Democrats plan to renew efforts next year to expand Medicaid eligibility in South Carolina, saying that’s the most important way to continue the work of their slain colleague, Sen. Clementa Pinckney. It will be a tough sell in a state where Republican opposition hasn’t budged since a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling […]

July 28, 2015

Disparities

Harlem Welcomes CCNY’s New Medical School

The City University of New York announced that community leaders have hailed the establishment of the first public medical school in Harlem by the college in partnership with St. Barnabas Hospital. The CUNY School of Medicine at City College will accept its first intake in fall 2016. Operating on the City College campus in Harlem […]

July 23, 2015

Disparities

Cherokee Leader Keeps Health Care as Top Priority

TULSA, Okla. — After coasting to an easy victory in the race for principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, Bill John Baker said he hopes to strengthen the changes he made during his first four years in office, including increasing access to health care and creating more jobs. The Cherokees operate the largest tribally owned […]

July 2, 2015

Policies

Americans Like Their Health Care, But Think The System Stinks

If America has the best health care system in the world, as some people like to say, then the setups in other countries must really be crummy. How come? Well, check out the disheartening results of a poll just out from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health. Fifty-five percent […]

June 8, 2015