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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ditiyan Franklin was a B student with college aspirations and a big, dimpled smile. Just last week he went to his senior prom, dressed in an impeccable white suit -- a memory stored in a key chain photo his father now carries in his pocket. Had he l

<p>The National Library of Medicine plans an exhibit of Native American healing practices this fall. In preparation, its physician-director met and questioned nine renowned Indian medicine men in Bismark, ND, a rare encounter.</p>

<p>Startup companies bet locally sourced fish, produced in self-sustaining habitats, can win over city-dwellers</p>

<p>What's being done to prevent suicide among Latino teens in Georgia? Linda Perez investigates for MundoHispanico.</p>

<p>Second part of Linda Perez' series on the causes of, and efforts to prevent suicide among Latino teens in Georgia.</p>

<p>To encourage more doctors to work in underserved areas, state Assemblyman Henry Perea, D-Fresno, proposed a bill for the Steven M. Thompson Medical School Scholarship Program to help students pay for medical school. The bill, Assembly Bill 589, has a condition: The students contractually commit to work their first three years after residency in an underserved area.</p>

<p>The construction of a dam near an Indian reservation on the Missouri River forced residents to less fertile land and put an end to their farming habits. Since then, American Indians have experienced a lack of nutrition, leading to diabetes, hypertension and obesity.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Vulnerable Minds: The</span><span> mental health of Latino children and youth affected by violence and the process of family reunification.</span></p>

<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