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The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) announced on Friday that its board of directors has selected A.C. Locklear (Lumbee) the organization’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
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A standard diagnostic test for ovarian cancer is less effective in detecting the disease among Black and Native American women, according to a recent study published in JAMA Network Open.
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The FBI is ramping up efforts to combat the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples crisis with a six-month deployment of 60 personnel to 10 FBI field offices nationwide. The initiative aims to solve unsolved violent crimes in Native communities through partnerships with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal law enforcement.
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Native Americans face some of the highest suicide rates in the country, yet have limited access to life-saving interventions and culturally centered mental health care.
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When Stephanie Russo Carroll, a citizen of the Native Village of Kluti-Kaah in Alaska, set out to earn her doctorate in tribal health 15 years ago, she focused her research on tribal cultural and health programs within six tribes.
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The Nansemond Indian Nation and its tribally chartered health arm, Fishing Point Healthcare, are suing the Commonwealth of Virginia for withholding Medicaid reimbursements and discriminating against tribal healthcare providers.
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The National Indian Health Board is calling on Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., formally requesting a tribal consultation on the restructuring of the HHS.
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The Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) is pushing back against layoffs ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Scrolling through social media about a year ago, Bethany Greenwood Agee paused to read a post from a New Hampshire mother who was desperately pleading for a kidney for her 17-year-old daughter.
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A youth organization in Regina, Saskatchewan in Canada, is facing serious scrutiny following the suicide of 17-year-old Serenity Severight, a First Nations teen who died while under its care.
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