Native Americans face higher-than-average medical debt, report finds — often for bills that aren’t their responsibility
Native Americans are twice as likely as others to have overdue medical bills in collection, and major problems within the ...
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Soldiers 10 times more likely to use nicotine pouches, study finds
Meanwhile, only 3% of all American adults have reported ever using the pouches, according to the study. “Military personnel ...
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South Dakota’s Native population sees 'double whammy' of health barriers
"In our state, the tribal lands have a 'double whammy' of facing both the historical piece and being rural," Kenyon observed.
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What is the Native American Church and why is peyote sacred to members?
Peyote has been used spiritually in ceremonies, and as a medicine by Native American people for millennia. It contains ...
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Native-born US workforce totals dipped — as immigrant labor figures rose: report
The American labor force is becoming less American. Newly-released data from the Center for Immigration Studies is sounding the alarm on the declining US labor force, by showing fewer native-born ...
Hitting 154 mph on skis brought fame, but helping Native American youth is his legacy
Eighteen years ago, on a steep snow slope high in the French Alps, on skis nearly eight feet long, Ross Anderson of Durango set the American speed skiing record that still stands: 154 mph. Across a ...
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Why medical students should join the street-medicine movement
Growing in popularity and necessity in recent years, street medicine gives medical students the opportunity to serve a patient population that is in the direst need of help—those without a place to ...
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American chestnuts are part of Yuletide lore. But in the US, they’ve nearly been wiped out
(AP Photo/Alyssa Goodman) An unmodified, open-pollinated American chestnut bur grows on a tree at the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science & Forestry Lafayette Road ...