1+ hour, 44+ min ago  (634+ words) Several bills still alive at the Legislature would provide support to family caregivers. Even though Judith Wong and her husband saved for retirement, they didn't account for the cost of caregiving after her husband was diagnosed with a degenerative muscular…...

1+ hour, 44+ min ago  (757+ words) The president's budget denounced the nonprofit as radical while proposing the funding cuts. The Maui AIDS Foundation is asking for extra county support in next year's budget as it braces for expected federal funding cuts tied to President Donald Trump's…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1148+ words) But some school districts can't afford to comply with requirements for special equipment or alternate practice schedules. By Neal Morton, The Hechinger Report. When George La Comb moved two years ago to a new high school in Orlando, Florida, he…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (449+ words) Old school knowledge is being presented in new-fangled ways. An introduction to anatomy and physiology (how body systems function) is foundational knowledge for many health careers. For decades, students dissected and studied bodies donated for that purpose. But that was…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1086+ words) A new lawsuit filed by a legal advocacy nonprofit says a 35-year-old federal scholarship program that brought Native Hawaiian doctors to the islands is unconstitutional. A decades-old federal program designed to put Native Hawaiian doctors and nurses to work in…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1319+ words) Residents are worried the mess they are wading through is contaminated by chemicals sprayed on farms upstream. Test results are pending. Upstream agricultural operations are the source of greatest concern, their use of pesticides linked with myriad health effects, from…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (296+ words) Graduating students at the John A. Burns School of Medicine gathered in the dark during the recent Kona low to find out where they would continue their medical training. Match Day is a national tradition at medical schools across the country....

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1804+ words) Staff at a state-run clinic serving wildfire survivors in Hawai'i have waited months for permanent jobs. Instead, they got another temporary contract. Editor's note: This story by Inside Climate News is republished with permission. Nancy Sidun has been counseling disaster…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (662+ words) Americans should get back to the philosophy of understanding that the country won't do well until everybody does well. I've been thinking a lot lately about how our society is deciding to value people. As someone who has lived in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1318+ words) A senior Hawai'i health care leader says issues with government reimbursements are leading to "a state of non-viability" for the state's entire health care system. Doctors in pricey San Francisco have a decided financial advantage over their peers in equally…...