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Health Care Deserts: Where A Lack Of Doctors Could Be Hurting Health Outcomes
24/7 Wall St.
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June 10, 2025
Key Points Aging populations and rising illness rates are leading to a physician shortage in the United States. The availability of physicians varies widely from state to state. The states with the fewest physicians per capita also have high rates...
Four ways NIOSH’s Spokane Research Lab, now facing closure, has improved workers’ safety
The Columbian - Washington State
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SPOKANE — Spokane is home to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health’s biggest facility in the western United States, where researchers have worked to prevent harm to workers in mining, commercial fishing, wildland firefighting...
How Digital Display Technologies Enhance the Patient Experience at Government Hospitals
FedTech
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The Department of Veterans Affairs provides healthcare at 1,380 health facilities across the country, including 170 VA Medical Centers and 1,193 outpatient sites. And while these hospitals and clinics vary in size and technological sophistication,...
Planned Parenthood warns last 2 Alaska clinics could close under Republican-backed bill
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Planned Parenthood off Lake Otis Parkway in Anchorage on Wednesday. (Bill Roth / ADN) Health care advocates are warning that a bill under consideration by Congress could cause two clinics providing abortions and other reproductive health care...
Diné Professor Named to First Endowed Professorship in Population Health at University of New Mexico
Native News Online
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Details By Native News Online Staff June 11, 2025 The University of New Mexico’s College of Population Health (COPH) has named Dr. Carmella Kahn (Diné) as the first Davis-Kozoll Endowed Professor for Prevention Research and Practice. The new...
Shiloh Schulte, of Manomet Conservation Sciences, dies in Alaska
The Patriot Ledger - Massachusetts
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Shiloh Schulte, 46, died in a helicopter crash in Alaska while working on conservation efforts. Schulte was a respected member of the Kennebunk community, serving on the Select Board and contributing to local conservation. He was known for his...
Rescues in Alaska see increase, could be attributed to enhanced emergency communications
Alaska's News Source
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June 11, 2025
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTUU/KTVF) - According to the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center (AKRCC), rescue season is well underway, and it’s been a busy start to the season. The high volume of rescue missions can in part be attributed to better...
Washington Skier Caught In Avalanche Is The Second Person To Die This Season On Alaska’s Mount McKinley
KXL 101 - Oregon
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June 11, 2025
A view of one of the faces of North America’s tallest peak, then-named Mount McKinley, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, Aug. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File) JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A skier died after being caught in an avalanche...
Alaska Personal Injury Victims Can Contact Crowson Law Group For Expert Representation
MENAFN
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June 9, 2025
(MENAFN- GetNews) Motor vehicle collisions throughout Alaska have resulted in devastating consequences for countless families. Victims face overwhelming medical expenses while dealing with insurance representatives who frequently dispute valid...
Skier caught in an avalanche is the second person to die this season on Alaska’s Mount McKinley
Associated Press
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June 11, 2025
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A skier died after being caught in an avalanche on North America’s tallest peak, officials said Wednesday — the second death of this year’s climbing season on Alaska’s Mount McKinley. Nicholas Vizzini, 29, of Washington state...
Childhood vaccination rates in Alaska lowest since 2017
Wrangell Sentinel - Alaska
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Alaska’s rates for childhood vaccinations are well below the national average, and the percentage of kindergarteners who had received all recommended vaccines was the lowest last year since at least 2017, according to a new report from the state...
Korean F-16 crashes at Eielson Air Force Base during takeoff ahead of Thursday’s Red Flag-Alaska exercise
Must Read Alaska
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June 11, 2025
A Republic of Korea Air Force F-16D Fighting Falcon crashed Monday afternoon during takeoff at Eielson Air Force Base, prompting a swift emergency response and the safe ejection of the aircrew. The crash occurred around 4 pm as the aircraft was...
As an Anchorage encampment is cleared, 2 friends say they’ll choose community over housing
KBRW - Alaska
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June 11, 2025
Lucille Williams has a full length mirror in her tent, propped up against a clothing rack. “I always try and keep myself up, like trying to do my hair, do my nails,” she said. That didn’t change when she became homeless. Other things have changed...
Four bodies believed to be Maynard family recovered in Alaska
KCEN 6 - Texas
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June 11, 2025
The Maynard family went missing on Aug. 3, 2024 off the coast of Alaska. Dive teams and Alaska DPS now believe they have been recovered. TROY, Texas — Editor's note: The video above originally aired as part of a previous story Four sets of remains...
Opinion: UAA’s College of Health is empowering Alaska’s future one nurse at a time
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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The University of Alaska Anchorage commencement ceremony in May 2022. Between 2013 and 2023, the nursing school educated more than 2,750 graduates, with greater than 85% of them employed in Alaska within their first year of graduation. (Bill Roth...
Opinion: The Big Beautiful Bill would be a disaster for Alaska health care
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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iStock / Getty Images Members of the U.S. Senate are rushing to pass a sweeping budget bill before the July 4th recess — a bill that would devastate Alaska’s economy, dismantle our already fragile healthcare system and harm tens of thousands of...
Defending VA Veterans Health Care on D-Day
The American Prospect - Washington D.C.
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June 11, 2025
The D-Day anniversary on June 6 is a pretty irresistible date for scheduling a protest related to veteran benefits. Eighty-one years ago, American soldiers and their allies stormed ashore in Normandy, establishing a critical beachhead in the...
Cherokee Nation to Build New $255.5 Million Healthcare Facility in Claremore
Native News Online
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Details By Native News Online Staff June 11, 2025 The Cherokee Nation is moving forward with a plan to replace the aging Claremore Indian Hospital with a brand-new $255.5 million healthcare facility as tribal leaders prepare to take over...
Some Southeast Alaska wolves are eating sea otters. It could be toxic.
Alaska Public Media
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June 11, 2025
On a small island near Gustavus, a wolf pack has decimated the local deer population – and started feeding on sea otters instead. The shift underscored coastal wolves’ adaptability. But then one died. “We found her in a hole, under a tree,”...
Aviation meets medicine: A flight surgeon’s lifelong journey
DVIDS - Georgia
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June 11, 2025
The sky was never the limit for Col. Christopher Borchardt, it was a lifetime calling. Before donning the uniform as a U.S. Air Force flight surgeon, Borchardt was a kid who marveled for hours at airplanes passing overhead, read every book on...