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Feb 16, 2024 - Summarizes recent research finding that rural residents have less access to quality dialysis care when compared to urban areas. Notes that fewer facilities, distance to care, and fewer healthcare professional contribute to the disparity.
Source: Physician's Weekly
Feb 16, 2024 - Highlights Project ECHO Nevada, a telementoring program for rural healthcare providers. Discusses the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on participation. Highlights the improved quality of care offered as a result of participation in the program. Discusses future plans for the program.
Source: Nevada Today
Feb 13, 2024 - Discusses disparities in heart disease rates in rural and urban areas in Virginia and Appalachia. Notes reasons for this disparity, risk factors for heart disease, and prevention measures.
Source: WSLS
Feb 13, 2024 - An Indiana rural emergency medical service crew is now carrying whole blood to administer in the field as a pilot project. Notes long transport times to a trauma hospital means worse patient survival rates. Blood transfusions in the field are expected to improve these rates.
Source: WISH
Feb 10, 2024 - New kiosks offering free COVID-19 and flu tests as well as other healthcare supplies are being placed in public places around the state of Washington. The kiosks are an effort to improve public health, particularly for underserved populations including for local Native American tribes.
Source: KOMO News
Feb 9, 2024 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is allowing an additional 30 days for comments on a proposed information collection project titled "Formative Research and Tool Development." This information collection request is designed to allow CDC's National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) to conduct formative research information collection activities used to inform many aspects of surveillance, communications, health promotion, and research project development for NCHHSTP's four priority diseases: HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases/infections (STD/STI), viral hepatitis, tuberculosis elimination (TB), and school and adolescent health (DASH). Comments are due within 30 days of this notice.
Source: Federal Register
Feb 7, 2024 - Highlights proposed legislation in Colorado to address availability of mental health resources for the agricultural community. Discusses mental healthcare workforce shortages, distances to care, and the unique barriers experienced by migrant workers.
Source: KFF Health News
Feb 6, 2024 - The Food and Drug Administration has revoked Emergency Use Authorizations issued to Southern California Permanente Medical Group and Drexel University College of Medicine related to COVID-19 detection and diagnosis tests.
Source: Federal Register
Feb 2, 2024 - Highlights the installation of new 3D mammography machines in rural South Dakota, bringing access to breast cancer screenings that previously required rural residents to drive long distances to access.
Source: Sanford Health News
Feb 2, 2024 - Discusses the impact of farming-related stress on suicide rates among agricultural workers. Notes training and crisis resources in North Carolina available to farmers and their communities. Highlights proposed legislation to create a national crisis hotline for agricultural workers.
Source: The Carolina Journal