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<p>For Culver City residents who cycle as their primary means of transportation, the new bike routes afforded by the 2008 PLACE grant marked a positive improvement in city planning.</p>
<p>Sometimes, the simplest tools in medicine are the ones that give us the most useful information. Take the humble blood pressure machine, for example. It's been around for years, and it's cheap, compared with a lot of other medical devices. It's simple to use, and it doesn't require a medical or a nursing degree to operate. But the numbers it reports are valuable in helping predict a person's risk of a host of medical problems, including heart failure, stroke and kidney failure, and can help doctors determine whether a person really needs to take medicine to control his or her high blood pressure.</p>
<p>Los Angeles County awarded five grants to Southern California cities in 2008 to encourage more effective transportation planning and healthier living.</p>
<p>Californians are required to disclose the radon level in their home, if known, before transferring it to a new owner. Nevadans are not. In both states, renters are particularly vulnerable. "There are no regulations to protect renters from radon in Nevada," said Susan Howe, radon education program
<p>More than two decades after U.S. regulators first issued guidelines on ra don infiltration into homes and buildings, the World Health Organization reports that the radon threat to human health is much more serious than previously known.</p>
<p>Seattle has gained a national reputation as a haven for “foodies” – but there’s a “food desert” in its own back yard, ironically in an area that once helped feed a growing city.</p>
<p>Living without running water, sanitation services or paved roads, people living in Texas colonias face grim health risks, Hunt Grant recipient Emily Ramshaw reports for the Texas Tribune/New York Times.</p>
<p>About a decade ago when I was newly settled into private practice in Memphis, a representative for a drug company marketing a new and powerful antibiotic stood in my office and asked whether I would like to attend a consultants' meeting about the drug in Washington.</p>
<p>Nearly half a million Texans live in substandard conditions in <em>colonias</em> -- 2,300 unincorporated and isolated border towns with limited access to potable water, sewer systems, electricity, sanitary housing or health care. Emily Ramshaw reports on their health conditions.</p><p> </p
