{"id":72618,"date":"2026-04-25T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/a-federal-program-has-helped-native-hawaiian-medical-students-for-35-years-its-now-being-sued-for-discrimination\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:54:56","slug":"a-federal-program-has-helped-native-hawaiian-medical-students-for-35-years-its-now-being-sued-for-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/a-federal-program-has-helped-native-hawaiian-medical-students-for-35-years-its-now-being-sued-for-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"A federal program has helped Native Hawaiian medical students for 35 years. It\u2019s now being sued for discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do No Harm, a conservative group, wants the scholarship, which has helped islands\u2019 underserved communities, declared unconstitutional<\/p>\n<p>Doctors and health experts in Hawaii say a decades-old federal program meant to support Native Hawaiians through medical school and better serve some of the islands\u2019 most underserved communities is under attack after a conservative group filed suit.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 35 years, hundreds of medical students have received support under the Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship Program and, to give back, worked in underserved areas on the islands in the following years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/25\/hative-hawaiian-scholarship-program-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do No Harm, a conservative group, wants the scholarship, which has helped islands\u2019 underserved communities, declared unconstitutional Doctors and health experts in Hawaii say a decades-old federal program meant to support Native Hawaiians through medical school and better serve some of the islands\u2019 most underserved communities is under attack after a conservative group filed suit. &#8230; <a title=\"A federal program has helped Native Hawaiian medical students for 35 years. It\u2019s now being sued for discrimination\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/a-federal-program-has-helped-native-hawaiian-medical-students-for-35-years-its-now-being-sued-for-discrimination\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A federal program has helped Native Hawaiian medical students for 35 years. It\u2019s now being sued for discrimination\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}