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In Austin, Texas and across the U.S., nonprofits are helping connect the country's uninsured Latina population with health care resources in their communities.
For more than a year, Baltimore Sun reporter Andrea K. McDaniels and photographer Lloyd Fox have examined the unseen impact of violence — on children, caregivers and victims’ relatives.
One of the only supportive housing options for the mentally ill operates without regulation or oversight—creating a dark economy in which bad operators act with impunity and an easily defrauded population gets no justice, an SN&R investigation reveals.
The Environmental Protection Agency has designated a sizable portion of Michigan's Wayne County as failing to meet federal air quality standards for (SO2) sulfur dioxide. Air pollution violations and sulfur dioxide emissions are major environmental justice issues in Wayne County.
Citing successes using cellphones to monitor health in remote corners of Africa and Asia, where mobile networks can be easier to come by than landlines, many people hope mobile technology can bolster the health of rural Americans. But challenges abound.
A Detroit News analysis of Michigan Department of Community Health data found an average of five children die annually of asthma in the city, including nine in 2006 and eight in 2007. But promising projects are underway to combat childhood asthma in Detroit, such as home visits by asthma educators.
Researchers and advocates for underserved, hard-to-reach patient groups are betting that health programs on mobile phones will soon usher in major advances in the treatment of diabetes, heart disease and other chronic conditions.
Hep C is three times more prevalent among veterans than in the general population. The Veterans Health Administration's hepatitis C screening and treatment program is struggling to pay for new treatments – and the rising number of veterans who need them.
The play "The Great Hurt" was written by retired artist and St. Scholastica College faculty member Carl Gawboy of the Bois Forte Band of Minnesota Chippewa. It contains eyewitness accounts, both historic and contemporary, of the Indian boarding school experience.
