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<p>If you want to know how tough someone’s life has been, look inside his mouth. Teeth are made of the hardest substance in the human body. But poverty, neglect and disease can crack them, break them, ruin them. The patients at the SOME dental clinic on O Street NW have been through a lot. Their tee
<p>She's on a mission to spread joy. Her lungs pretty much shot from complications of Cystic Fibrosis, Claire Wineland shares her feelings about possibility of dying young, and her committment enjoy every minute of whatever time she has.</p>
<p>While funding for California's welfare programs has seen a steady decline over the past few decades, the state's financial crisis may mean even more severe cutbacks. Many who depend on these programs may face homelessness and illness as a result.</p>
<p>While other social services are facing budget cuts, the funding to serve Del Norte County’s mentally ill population seems relatively secure.</p>
<p>Some local entrepreneurs have been stunned because they failed to meet all the rules for the small-business tax credits in last year's highly vaunted federal health care law to help cover their health care costs.</p><p>Despite their disappointment, they're hopeful that another part of the
<p>Journalist Yesenia Amaro examines how some small businesses will cope with health reform as their health costs for workers continue to soar.</p>
<p>An American nonprofit is offering HIV-positive Kenyan women $40 to use IUDs as long-term birth control—and women are taking them up on it. Is this the right way to prevent the transmission of HIV to children?</p>
<p>Do your doctors always have your best interests in mind when they prescribe a new medication? A former pharmaceutical representative says not neccessarily. She's confessing sexy tricks she used to get doctors to prescribe her meds to more patients.</p>
<p>Janna Rodriguez, one of the owners of J&R Tacos in Merced, wants to learn more about the specific provisions in the federal health care law designed to help small businesses such as hers. Her restaurant, which opened almost five years ago, employs eight part-time employees — and none
