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<p>For the past twenty years, Shepherd's Clinic in Baltimore has provided comprehensive health care to the uninsured -- without any government funding. Since the recession began in 2008, more and more people are finding themselves walking through the clinic's doors for the first time.</p>
<p>Medical breakthroughs in curing sickle-cell anemia and treating prostate cancer and HIV/AIDS may dramatically improve life for millions of patients, but significant barriers keep many African Americans from receiving this new, high-quality care.</p>
<p>Too many folks have the wrong idea about the YWCA — and not just because they figure it’s the same thing as the YMCA.</p>
<p>Yanisha Claudio, 15, of Hartford, tenderly swaddled three-week-old Jordan, hoping he wouldn’t wake up. “He was crying until four o’clock in the morning,” said the weary Bulkeley High School freshman.</p>
<p>Multi-million dollar initiatives to help at-risk and parenting teens across Connecticut call for “evidence-based” and “culturally appropriate” approaches – the mantra of experts assisting Hispanic youth, who have the highest number of teen births in the state.</p>
<p><span class="article-content"><span>Half of the patients in Grady Hospital's emergency room don't have a regular doctor. When they're sick, they have nowhere to go but the E.R. </span></span></p>
<p><span class="article-content"><span>As the area's health provider for the poor and uninsured, Grady Hospital gets most of its funds from federal, state and local governments. But that's not enough to cover costs.</span></span></p>
<p>As more and more Wilmington children are exposed to violence and the trauma that comes with it, police, counselors, community-based organizations, and schools are boosting their efforts to guide those children to physical and emotional safety.</p>
<p>For more than 100 years, Atlanta's Grady Hospital has been the health care provider for the region's poor and uninsured, but in 2007, it faced a crisis. Philip Graitcer investigates.</p>
