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Longer renewal times, other changes eyed to speed up Wisconsin licensing delays
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Assembly is slated to approve a package of bills Wednesday designed to help improve the system of issuing professional licenses to everyone from tattoo artists to doctors and nurses that has been plagued with delays since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. ...
Transgender adults in Florida `blindsided' that new law also limits their access to health care
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Debate surrounding Florida’s new restrictions on gender-affirming care focused largely on transgender children. But a new law that Republican presidential candidate and Gov. Ron DeSantis signed last month also made it difficult – even impossible – for many...
Border Patrol wouldn't review the medical file of a girl with a heart condition before she died
HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — Border Patrol medical staff declined to review the file of an 8-year-old girl with a chronic heart condition and rare blood disorder before she appeared to have a seizure and died on her ninth day in custody, an internal investigation found. U.S. Customs and...
Defying taboos, Shiite cleric in Iran takes in street dogs and nurses them back to health
QOM, Iran (AP) — It's rare these days for a turbaned cleric in Iran to attract a large following of adoring young fans on Instagram, but Sayed Mahdi Tabatabaei has done it by rescuing street dogs in defiance of a local taboo. Tabatabaei posts regularly — to his more than 80,000...
Editorial Roundup: Minnesota
Minneapolis Star Tribune. May 22, 2023. Editorial: State gambles on government solutions DFL didn’t stop at spending the surplus, betting on a second Minnesota Miracle. Minnesota’s elected leaders are wrapping up a legislative session for the ages...
Prominent foe of female circumcision wins prestigious $1.4 million Templeton Prize
Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife, hospital founder, and health care advocate who for decades has combated female circumcision and strived to improve women’s health care in East Africa, was named Tuesday as winner of the 2023 Templeton Prize, one of the world's largest annual individual awards. ...
Montana Supreme Court decides registered nurses and midwives can continue providing abortion care
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana's Supreme Court ruled unanimously Friday that advanced-practice registered nurses can continue to provide abortion care in the state, likely setting up legal clashes with the 2023 Legislature, which passed restrictive laws saying only physicians can perform abortions....
Federal government's $1 billion effort to recruit next generation of doctors at risk
SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — Thousands of women living in rural, eastern Maryland have few options when they're looking for someone to deliver their babies. The local hospital doesn't have an obstetrics doctor on staff so most women in this region, flanked by sprawling farm fields and...
The US has approved $42 billion in loan forgiveness for public service workers. Here's what to know
The U.S. has approved more than $42 billion in federal student loan debt forgiveness for more than 615,000 borrowers in the past 18 months as part of a program aimed at getting more people to work in public service jobs, the U.S. Department of Education said this week. The Public...
Tips surge after nurse practitioner charged with sex crimes
AMES, Iowa (AP) — More than 70 tips have poured in after an Iowa nurse practitioner who is accused of photographing a teen's genitals during an exam was arrested on sex crime charges, police say. Several districts and one university also have issued alerts that Carl Markley, 44,...
