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<p>This story is Part 6 of a 15-part series that examines health care needs in Gary, Indiana.</p><p class="body.text">In the next three years Methodist Hospitals Northlake in Gary faces perhaps the greatest challenge of its 101-year history.</p> <p class="body.text">Health care reform is expected to reduce the rolls of uninsured Gary patients and expand health care access to thousands. But by 2014 the city’s only acute care hospital must figure out how to replace millions of dollars in government funding scheduled to disappear.</p> <p> </p>
<p>Asthma hospitalization rates are higher in western Salt Lake County ZIP codes.</p>
<p>This story explores how freeways may cause children in certain Utah neighborhoods to be hospitalized more often. It is a sidebar to the third part of <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellowships/projects/healthy-whom-west… series on health disparities in Salt Lake City</a>.</p>
<p>Six areas with highest smoking rates also have highest hospitalizations. It is a sidebar to the third part of <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellowships/projects/healthy-whom-west… series on health disparities in Salt Lake City</a>.</p>
<p>West Virginians would need a doctor's prescription to buy certain cold medications under legislation passed Wednesday by the House of Delegates.</p>
<p>State Police are pushing for a prescription requirement for certain cold medications as drug manufacturers fight back against the proposal.</p>
<p>Almost 50 years ago, a notorious church bombing in Birmingham, Ala. killed two of Fania Davis's closest friends—and launched Davis, then a teenager, into a lifetime of social justice work. Today, the well-known Oakland resident directs Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY), an innovative organization that aims to turn teenagers accused of crimes or troublemaking into responsible citizens.</p>
<p>A father who lost his 11-year-old son to leukemia last year is one of five plaintiffs in a suit filed Feb. 15 in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, Calif., challenging a 1984 federal ban on compensation for donors of bone marrow.</p>
<p>The nation's drug-policy chief says West Virginia can fight its prescription drug abuse epidemic by combining good police work with a focus on the prevention and treatment of substance abuse.</p>
