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Released: 2-Nov-2017 10:05 AM EDT
WashU Expert: Is a Bipartisan Approach to Fixing Obamacare Feasible?
Washington University in St. Louis

The bipartisan bill proposed by U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), aimed at shoring up the troubled health insurance markets, has some approaches that would help fix the marketplaces, but more changes are needed, says a health economist at Washington University in St. Louis.“The Alexander-Murray approach would apply a small number of tweaks to the marketplaces meant to reduce volatility,” said Tim McBride, professor at the Brown School and expert on health reform and access to health care.

Released: 26-Oct-2017 2:40 PM EDT
College Career Expert: Four Myths About Job-Hunting in College, and What to Do Right Now
Vanderbilt University

It's never too early in your college career to start preparing for your first real job.

Released: 26-Oct-2017 2:05 PM EDT
Washu Expert: Opioid Crisis More Than What Trump Calls ‘Public Health Emergency’
Washington University in St. Louis

President  Donald Trump’s Oct. 26 announcement that the opioid epidemic is a “public health emergency” rather than a “national emergency” goes against the understanding of most authorities, said an expert on substance use disorder treatment at Washington University in St. Louis.“Recall that the commission President Trump formed, led by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, indicated that the opioid epidemic was the equivalent of the September 11 attacks happening every three weeks,” said David Patterson Silver Wolf, associate professor at the Brown School and director of the Community-Academic Partnership on Addiction.

Released: 25-Oct-2017 2:05 PM EDT
Prostate Cancer: What You Need to Know
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Soroush Rais-Bahrami, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Urology and co-director for the UAB Program for Personalized Prostate Cancer Care.In 2016, more than 180,890 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in men. Next to skin cancers, prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in American men.



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