PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously upheld a lower court judgment that found the Republican-controlled Legislature violated the state constitution by including new laws banning school mask mandates and a series of other measures in unrelated…
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Nursing Student Expelled After ‘Insensitive’ Writing Assignment
Kaylyn Willis has spent 13 years trying to become a nurse while raising three children and working in the medical profession. So the 39-year-old is not giving up after recently being expelled from a nursing program at Umpqua Community College…
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State Mask Bans Face Federal Civil Rights Inquiries
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The Education Department on Monday opened civil rights investigations into five Republican-led states that have banned or limited mask requirements in schools, saying the policies could…
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Medical School Student Influx May Overwhelm Montana Resources
Opening two new medical schools in Montana would stretch and possibly overwhelm the state’s physicians who provide the clinical training that students need to become doctors, according to leaders of a University of Washington medical school program that relies on…
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Student designs life-saving device that rapidly stops bleeding from knife wounds
In the year ending March 2019, 259 people were killed in the UK using sharp instruments, including knives and broken bottles. A victim of a stabbing can bleed to death in just five minutes, so the priority for first responders…
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Med Students Help Woman Amid Midflight Emergency
Two medical students from Louisiana State University helped a passenger who became lightheaded and fell during a flight to Greece over the weekend. The flight crew put out a call for any medical professionals on board. When no one responded,…
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Arizona Med Student Allegedly Threatens to Bomb Campus
A 29-year-old medical student at Midwestern University, in Glendale, Arizona, was arrested for allegedly threatening to bomb the campus and for making death threats to other students, according to the Glendale Police Department. Mona Asadi, 29, was arrested June 16…
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Disgraced Doctor Surrenders License After OSU Sex Abuse Scandal
Ted W. Grace, MD, a doctor implicated in the Ohio State University sex abuse scandal dating back decades, has surrendered his license to practice medicine and surgery in the state of Ohio, according to the State Medical Board. The surrender…
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FEMA Opens Mass Vaccine Sites as Bad Weather Hampers Efforts
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Motorists wait to get their COVID-19 vaccine at a federally run vaccination site set up on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles. FEMA opened…
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Overnight retreat spurred 116 coronavirus cases after student developed symptoms: CDC report
How is the race for a coronavirus vaccine shaping up? Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma joins ‘Fox News @ Night’ with insight. An overnight retreat in Wisconsin this summer involving 152 high school-aged boys, counselors and…
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