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Kickapoo Tribe cites lack of contract health dollars (06/27)
INDIANZ.COM LISTENING LOUNGE Senate Indian Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Access to Contract Health Services in Indian Country. June 26, 2008. • Opening Statements Panel 1 - Testimony | Q&A Panel 2 - Testimony | Q&A • Webcast | Written...
IHS restores emergency care at Navajo hospital (06/26)
The Indian Health Service has restored emergency services at a hospital on the Navajo Nation. The Crownpoint Health Care Facility in Crownpoint, New Mexico, stopped offering emergency services during nights and weekends because there weren't enough lab workers. Services...
Senate Indian Affairs hearing on contract health (06/26)
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held an oversight hearing this morning on contract health services. The hearing started at 10am and lasted about two hours. There was a slight change in witness order, as Robert McSwain testified after all of...
Northern Arapaho Tribe seeks $1.5M for youth center (06/26)
The Northern Arapaho Tribe is seeking $1.5 million to build a youth center on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Tribal leaders held a press conference in Washington, D.C., yesterday to discuss the need for the center. They said it...
Study cites high Native youth alcohol disorder rate (06/26)
A forthcoming study says American Indian and Alaska Native youth are more likely to suffer from an alcohol use disorder than any other racial or ethnic group. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 14.9 percent of...
Native Americans suffer from highest diabetes rate in US (06/25)
Native Americans suffer from the highest diabetes rate in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Tuesday. Based on 2007 estimates, 16.5 percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives suffer from the disease. That's more...
Witness list for Senate hearing on contract health (06/25)
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee is holding an oversight hearing on Thursday on contract health services. The hearing takes place at 10am and will be broadcast online. The witness list follows: Panel 1 MR. ROBERT G. MCSWAIN Director, Indian Health...
Opinion: Alcohol abuse affects Ho-Chunk Nation (06/25)
"Just after 4 a.m. March 24, 19-year-old Darus E. Pettibone of Black River Falls lost control of his high performance Ford Mustang on Hwy. 12 after the speedometer topped 150 mph, authorities said. Pettibone, who had been drinking, did not...
Senate Indian Affairs hearing on contract health (06/23)
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee will hold an oversight hearing this Thursday on contract health services. The Indian Health Service uses the program to pay outside providers for care that it cannot provide at its facilities. Patients have discovered that...
Rare form of salmonella struck Navajos in New Mexico (06/20)
A rare and virulent form of salmonella sickened more than 20 members of the Navajo Nation who live in New Mexico, officials said. Five cases of Saintpaul poisoning showed up the Northern Navajo Medical Clinic in Shiprock before Memorial Day....
Tohono O'odham group walks from Maine to Arizona (06/19)
Four members of the Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona are walking from Maine to Arizona to promote awareness of diabetes. The group drove from the reservation to Bar Harbor, Maine. From there, they started the 3,000-mile walk back home on...
Natives account for 69 percent of new HIV cases (06/17)
Native people account for 69 percent of new HIV cases in Regina, Saskatchewan, according to data for 2007.. The Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region said more and more Native people are testing positive for HIV. In 2003, Natives were 43 percent...
Report looks at health status of nation's youth (06/12)
American Indian and Alaska Native youth remain at the bottom, or near the bottom, of health care indicators in the United States, according to the new Kids Count report. The 2008 report examined data on a nationwide and state-by-state...
Pro-Life Site: Abortion lobby targets Native women (06/10)
"The American abortion lobby claims to be an equal-opportunity abortion provider, looking out for the needs and wants of all women. Not so. Big Abortion devotes an inordinate amount of attention to Blacks, Hispanics, and Alaska Natives who, in proportion...
IHS confirms 14 cases of salmonella poisoning (06/09)
The Indian Health Service has confirmed 14 cases of salmonella on the Navajo Nation , The Gallup Independent reports. The Navajo area office said the people who became sick bought tomatoes at one of two stores in New Mexico. One...
Turtle Mountain Band won't lose IHS hospital (06/09)
The Indian Health Service has taken emergency action to maintain a hospital in North Dakota. The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians was told the Quentin Burdick Memorial Hospital in Belcourt was going to close due to lack of...
Store near Navajo Nation may have sold tomatoes (06/05)
A supermarket near the Navajo Nation may have sold tomatoes that have sickened 40 people in New Mexico, The Albuquerque Journal reports. The Indian Health Service and the New Mexico Department of Health have investigated the cause of the salmonella...
IHS links salmonella outbreak to uncooked tomatoes (06/04)
The Indian Health Service says a salmonella outbreak that has affected people in nine states is linked to uncooked, raw, large tomatoes. Roma and red round tomatoes were the common factor in 40 cases examined. The Centers for Disease Control...
Low rate of cancer reported among Native children (06/03)
American Indian and Alaska Native children have the lowest rate of cancer among children of all racial and ethnic groups, according to a new study. Based on data from 2001 through 2003, the rate of cancer among Native children was...
Yakama Nation targets high rate of diabetes (05/27)
More than 1,000 people on the Yakama Nation in Washington suffer from diabetes, The Yakima Herald-Republic reports. One in five tribal members over the age of 50 is affected by the disease. Nationally, Native Americans are nearly three times...
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