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On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act. The law puts in place comprehensive health insurance reforms that will roll out over four years and beyond, with most changes taking place by 2014...
WASHINGTON – A new forecast on America’s obesity crisis has health experts fearing a dramatic jump in health care costs if nothing is done to bring the epidemic under control...
Health doesn’t only happen in a doctor’s office or with diets. Health happens where we live, learn, and play; in our communities, in our schools...
New America Media/California Progress Report, News Analysis, Zack Kaldveer, Posted:May 01, 2012
As California families continue to reel from the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression, health insurance premium rates have soared by 153% since 2002, nearly five times the rate of inflation.
VoiceWaves Journalist Wendy Lopez asked Long Beach residents, “What does a healthy community look like?” Here’s what Camerine Ponn had to say...
St. Louis American/New America Media, News Feature, Rebecca S. Rivas, Posted: Apr 17, 2012
Photo: Jerry King, 77, started using the “lifeline” of the Internet to research medical questions in 1999 after her husband was diagnosed with colon cancer...
FROM THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION
2012 County Health Rankings Highlight Healthiest, Least Healthy Counties in Every State
Rankings show what influences how healthy residents are, how long they live...
According to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), this year’s theme,Health Equity Can’t Wait...
New America Media/Coachella Unincorporated, News Feature, Ivan Delgado, Rogelio Montaño and Aurora Saldivar, Posted: Apr 02, 2012
The following articles are part of a special investigative reporting package looking at environmental health conditions in Mecca, Calif.,..
By Ivan Delgado, Johnny Flores Jr., and Santos Reyes
Coachella Unincorporated
Thermal, Calif. – Lorena Lopez arrived at Desert Mirage High School in the dark of night in hopes of being among the first treated at The Flying Doctors mobile clinic on March 31.
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La Opinion/New America Media, News Feature, Araceli Martinez Ortega, Posted: Mar 30, 2012
Photo: Margaret Ibarra, 80, shows a photo of her son’s family before he went to prison...
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