Minneapolis College hosted a 'pinning ceremony' for its nursing program graduates recently — a ritual that confirmed their commitment to the profession.
It included a circle of Native American drummers performing an honor song to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of four graduating class members, Native American women who plan to become nurses. Minneapolis College officials and the women themselves believe their success will draw other Native Americans into the nursing profession over time as the four nurses become role models for future generations.
An artificial intelligence based deep learning model can predict lung cancer risk using only a single low dose computed tomography scan, according to research carried out in Korea. The deep learning model, which is known as Sybil, was originally developed using National Lung Screening Trial data by investigators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has changed its process for veterans to get medical care from non-VA providers, removing a requirement that a referral to community care be reviewed by another VA doctor. The VA announced Monday that it is enacting a provision of the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act that will help ease veterans' access to medical services from private providers.
A new Annenberg Poll shows that 87% of Americans say the benefit of childhood measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination outweighs the risk, and 67% say they know that MMR vaccines don't cause autism. 2025 may see the highest measles case count in the United States since the disease was officially eliminated in 2000.
U.S. advocacy groups are waging an intensive campaign to protect Medicaid and Obamacare from Donald Trump's 'big, beautiful bill', after House Republicans proposed an $880 billion cut that could leave an estimated 13 million Americans without health insurance.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has agreed to acquire the assets of bankrupt genetic testing company 23andMe for $256 million. Regeneron pledged to 'ensure compliance with 23andMe's consumer privacy policies and applicable laws with respect to the treatment of customer data.' This is a big loss for 23andMe co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki, who'd been trying to buy the company since last summer.