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Alaska becomes a focus of last-minute changes to big federal bill, as U.S. Senate starts debate
Alaska Beacon
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June 29, 2025
The U.S. Senate voted to start debate on a wide-ranging bill that includes a series of last-minute changes that would uniquely offset or exempt some of its costs for Alaska. The changes highlight the importance of the votes of each Republican...
Medicaid cuts could mean Arizona rural hospital lose $1.2 billion over 10 years
KJZZ - Arizona
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July 2, 2025
Large cuts to Medicaid in the massive tax and spending plan that Republicans are finalizing could deal a major blow to Arizona’s rural hospitals, threatening services for tens of thousands of residents. The version that narrowly passed the Senate...
Map Shows Worst US States for Lung Health
Newsweek
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July 2, 2025
Due to a combination of smoking rates, regional climates and air pollution, the health of Americans' lungs varies immensely from state to state, according to a new report. A new study by Opera Beds, a specialist in clinically oriented mattresses...
Rare complication from gonorrhea infection results in Alaska death
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria, which cause gonorrhea, are seen in a scanning electronic micrograph. Alaska officials have recorded a death from disseminated gonococcal infection, a rare complication of the sexually transmitted disease. (Image...
How is climate change impacting life in rural Alaska? Researchers are looking for answers.
KDLG - Alaska
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July 2, 2025
The Polaris Project is a research initiative led by scientists from universities across the country, funded by the National Science Foundation. It's in its fifth and final year of studying how climate change is impacting social well-being,...
Murkowski visits Ketchikan, talks Big Beautiful Bill decisions
Ketchikan Daily News - Alaska
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Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski traveled to southern Southeast Alaska during Congress’ Indepedence Day recess, and spoke with the Daily News on Monday regarding the extrordinary circumstance that she was involved with the week before. On the morning of...
Rare complication from gonorrhea infection results in Alaska death, officials report
Alaska Beacon
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July 2, 2025
An Alaska woman has died from a severe complication of gonorrhea that is rare but has increased in frequency in the state, health officials reported. The woman, in her 50s, had disseminated gonococcal infection, or DGI, in which the bacteria that...
Senate boosts rural hospital fund to offset Medicaid cuts
Healthcare Finance News
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) in the Capitol after the Senate vote-a-rama on July 1. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The Senate version of the "Big Beautiful Bill" could come up for a vote as early as today in the...
ICE transfers detainees from Alaska prison, but questions remain around due process and conditions
Alaska Beacon
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July 2, 2025
The Alaska Department of Corrections announced that 35 men that were arrested and detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from out of state and held at the Anchorage Correctional Complex were transferred out of state on Monday....
USU UWLP Releases Research on Utah Women and Mental Health
ETV News - Utah
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July 2, 2025
Utah State University Extension Press Release Based on a 2025 WalletHub report, Utah is ranked the 4th happiest state in the nation, which suggests that Utahns are experiencing favorable mental health. However, the rankings also show that Utahns...
Alaska SeaLife Center’s Wildlife Response Team races to save three Harbor Seal Pups
The Delta Discovery - Alaska
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June 28, 2025
This premature baby seal was found on the beach in Petersburg which was rescued and brought to the ASLC on May 26th, 2025 where he is receiving care. NOAA SA-AKR-2022-05 The Alaska SeaLife Center (ASLC) has admitted three more harbor seal pups to...
Assessing Racial and Gender Disparities in Asthma Education, Knowledge, and Healthcare Access Among Adolescents
Dove Medical Press
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July 2, 2025
Introduction Asthma poses a significant health challenge for pediatric populations in the United States, affecting approximately 4.6 million adolescents1 and is a leading cause of extensive school absenteeism and frequent visits to emergency...
Half of drug overdose deaths in Alaska involved methamphetamine
Wrangell Sentinel - Alaska
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While opioids have been involved in most of Alaska’s drug overdose deaths, another drug is a frequent contributor to those outcomes: methamphetamine. A little over half of the fatal overdoses in Alaska from 2017 to 2023 involved methamphetamine...
AK Dems to Host Emergency People’s Town Hall After Republicans Vote to Cut Health Care So Billionaires Can Get a Tax Break
Alaska Native News
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July 2, 2025
Wednesday, July 2 at 9:30 EST/5:30 p.m. AKDT, the Alaska Democratic Party will host an emergency virtual People’s Town Hall featuring state legislators, including Sen. Jesse Kiehl, Sen. Elvi Gray-Jackson, Rep. Genevieve Mina, Sen. Scott Kawasaki,...
Longest-serving Alaska legislator in history will retire next year
Wrangell Sentinel - Alaska
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After nearly 40 years in Alaska's state Capitol, Sen. Lyman Hoffman is calling it quits. On June 25, the Bethel Democrat confirmed that he will not seek reelection in 2026 and will end a political career that has left him as the longest-serving...
Sullivan, Murkowski vote to pass Senate Republicans’ budget bill, with big health care cuts looming
Alaska Beacon
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July 2, 2025
Alaska Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski joined 48 other Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday to pass a major budget bill that cuts federal assistance programs in order to partially pay for the extension of large tax cuts, weighted toward...
Kenaitze Tribe to launch Dena'ina language app
KDLL - Alaska
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July 10, 2025
In a small recording studio at the Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s administrative office in Kenai, language transcriptionist Andrea Ivanoff runs through a book of Dena’ina words and phrases. She’s seated across from her grandmother and longtime Dena’ina...
Juneau residents rally for Medicaid as Congress nears megabill vote
KTOO - Alaska
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June 28, 2025
Kris Cheng waves at passing cars with other protesters at a protest outside Senator Dan Sullivan’s office on June 27, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) Dozens of Juneau residents gathered outside U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan’s office Friday to implore...
Government Hospitals Enhance the Patient Experience With Digital Display Technologies
HealthTech
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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,...
How Alaska’s pivotal Republican senator decided to vote for Donald Trump’s bill
KINY - Alaska
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July 2, 2025
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, center, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, arrives for a closed-door Republican meeting to advance President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, June 27,...