Columbus, OH

Real Health

Michael Bloomberg’s Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a $600 million gift to the four historically Black medical schools, according to The Associated Press (AP). The former mayor of New York City and founder of Bloomberg LP shared the news at the annual convention of the National Medical Association, which advocates for African-American physicians.

Bloomberg Gifts $600M to HBCU Endowments

Pharmacist Mark Mikhael has lost 50 pounds over the past 12 months. He no longer has diabetes and finds himself “at my ideal body weight,” with his cholesterol below 200 for the first time in 20 years. “I feel fantastic,” he said. Like millions of others,...

Why Millions Are Trying FDA-Authorized Alternatives to Big Pharma’s Weight Loss Drugs

Globally, 70% of people are projected to live in cities by 2050. Consequently, urban settings will play a vital role in addressing the HIV epidemic as well as broader health issues. A new report assesses the urban HIV epidemic and offers actionable recommendations to improve HIV responses. Released to coincide...

Here’s How Cities and Urban Settings Can Better Respond to HIV

North Carolina State

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Eden, NC

Town Talks

North Carolina is the 28th largest state by area but boasts the seventh-highest number of counties in the country. If you’re searching for an affordable place to call home in North Carolina, you’re in luck. This diverse and picturesque state offers a range of options that won’t break the bank.

North Carolina City Has Been Named the Cheapest Place to Live in The State

Mississippi State

Jerrian Reedy was 9 when his father was admitted to the hospital in Hattiesburg, about two hours northeast of New Orleans, after sustaining three gunshot wounds. Reedy recalled visiting his dad in the intensive care unit that summer in 2009, even though children weren’t typically permitted in that part of the hospital.

Mississippi Lacks Black Doctors, Even as Lawmakers Increasingly Target Diversity Programs

Ohio State

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The Lantern

On Tuesday, licensed Ohio dispensaries began legally selling non-medical marijuana to consumers; however, the drug’s possession, growth and/or usage are still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus. Credit: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS [Original caption: Four citizen-led petitions with proposals to update Dallas’ charter hit the 20,000 valid signature threshold to make it on the Nov. 5 election ballot, including one that would ban police officers from arresting or citing people carrying less than four ounces of marijuana.] As of Tuesday, students 21 and older can now legally purchase marijuana in Ohio.

Dispensary sales of recreational marijuana began Tuesday; possession and usage still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus

Long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) was safe and well tolerated as HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) before and during pregnancy in the follow-up phase of a global study among cisgender women. The analysis of outcomes from more than 300 pregnancies and infants will be presented at the 2024 International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) in Munich, Germany.

Long-Acting Injectable Cabotegravir for HIV Prevention is Safe in Pregnancy

The immune system senses and responds to changes in physiologic health, and a new tool called the immune health metric (IHM) can measure and even predict some of these changes, an NIAID study has found. If doctors could use the IHM to detect health problems long before symptoms appear, they could potentially act early to prevent disease, the investigators suggest. Their findings are published in the journal Nature Medicine.

A New Way to Measure and Predict Human Immune Health

Colorado State

Colorado stands out among the 10 states that have disenrolled the highest share of Medicaid beneficiaries since the U.S. government lifted a pandemic-era restriction on removing people from the health insurance program. It’s the only blue state in a cluster of red states with high disenrollment rates — a group...

Colorado Dropped Medicaid Enrollees as Red States Have, Alarming Advocates for the Poor

Three HIV scientists exploring potential HIV cures received grants totaling $1.2 million from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. All three will focus on ways to eliminate the so-called HIV reservoir, where latent virus hides out, even when people are on successful treatment and their viral load is undetectable. (If treatment is stopped, the virus rebounds and begins its damage.)

Can Cancer Meds Play a Role in an HIV Cure? These Researchers Aim to Find Out

David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Kentucky State

Northern Kentucky Tribune

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder , which covers rural America, and Climate Central , a nonadvocacy science and news group. On the day he would become homeless, Wesley Bryant was awoken by his wife, Alexis.

Some Kentuckians, like many rural Americans, are too poor to qualify for federal flood protections

A policy brief written by health advocate experts urges Medicaid leadership to capitalize on the promise of long-acting medications to treat and prevent HIV. The brief spells out a series of recommendations to ensure that people eligible for Medicaid have access to these “game-changing” injectable HIV meds. The...

Medicaid Urged to Ensure Access to Long-Acting Meds That Treat and Prevent HIV

A large analysis of data from nearly 400,000 healthy U.S. adults followed for more than 20 years has found no association between regular multivitamin use and lower risk of death. The study, led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute, was published June 26, 2024, in...

For Healthy Adults, Taking Multivitamins Daily Is Not Associated With a Lower Risk Of Death

Denver, CO

In addition to collecting more than 8,000 used needles in the past year from Denver drug users, the Harm Reduction Action Center passed out 10,000 meth pipes and “snort kits,” according to a newsletter sent to its supporters Thursday. They also connected about 1,700 people to medical, mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Denver group hands out 10K meth pipes, ‘snort kits,’ connects 1,700 to treatment annually

A Year of Hepatitis Advances to Mark World Hepatitis Day. Viral hepatitis affects the lives of about one in twenty people in the world, resulting in over a million deaths each year. NIAID is working on many ways to prevent and treat the different types of hepatitis, including the development of vaccines and improved therapeutics and diagnostics.

NIAID Research to Eliminate the Threat of Viral Hepatitis Across the Globe

Migrants enrolled in the Denver Asylum Seekers Program won’t get cash benefits after all. The council amended a contract with Haven for Hope during the Safety, Housing, Education and Homelessness Committee meeting Wednesday. Instead of Haven of Hope providing migrants with cash assistance on debit cards, it will instead provide “culturally appropriate” food.

Denver revokes cash assistance for migrants

Austin, TX

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) opened a new HIV clinic in Austin, Texas, that provides comprehensive care, including HIV testing, treatment, medical services, a pharmacy and services related to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), reports Fox 7. Austin Mayor Kirk Watson joined other local and state officials at the Friday ribbon cutting....

HIV Health Care Center Opens in Austin, Texas [VIDEO]

Iowa State

Oskaloosa, IA

Rural regions like the one surrounding this southern Iowa town used to have a lot more babies, and many more places to give birth to them. At least 41 Iowa hospitals have shuttered their labor and delivery units since 2000. Those facilities, representing about a third of all Iowa hospitals, are located mostly in rural areas where birth numbers have plummeted. In some Iowa counties, annual numbers of births have fallen by three-quarters since the height of the baby boom in the 1950s and ’60s, when many rural hospitals were built or expanded, state and federal records show.

Rural Hospitals Built During Baby Boom Now Face Baby Bust

The American Liver Foundation (ALF) has announced a new program that will educate non-liver experts on treatment and prevention practices for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD, formerly known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD), according to an ALF news release. Beginning in August, Project Echo will offer monthly...

American Liver Foundation Announces Fatty Liver Disease Education Program

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Cancer Patients and Survivors Say Their Top Policy Priority Is Affordability

Protecting free preventive cancer screenings and reducing the burden of medical debt are the top issues of concern for cancer patients and survivors today, according to...

Cancer Patients and Survivors Say Their Top Policy Priority Is Affordability

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