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A core part of The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities 10-year initiative is a commitment to improve the health and well-being of boys and men of color. ..
New America Media, Commentary, Jessica González-Rojas
Women’s health advocates received welcome news earlier this month when a federal judge ruled that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must make the most popular forms of emergency contraception (also known as the morning-after pill) available for all women over-the-counter...
Empty classrooms sit unoccupied while posters of the food pyramid and a woman’s reproductive cycle collect dust on the walls...
New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram
SACRAMENTO – Health care advocates warn that time is running out on drawing down federal dollars to expand Medi-Cal, a move that would prevent nearly 1.4 million low-income Californians from remaining uninsured when health care reform is fully implemented Jan...
New America Media, News Report, Anthony Advincula
Image: Florida resident Irina Flores-Montalban is on a five-year waitlist to receive subsidized medical care for her ailing son...
International Examiner , Commentary, Christine Takada, Posted: Apr 05, 2013
Photo: Andrelina “Elna” Orbeta, 79, works helping seniors who phone a Seattle nonprofit...
by Mark Tran
We’ve all heard the expression “double bottom line” or even “triple bottom line,” meaning that an investment not only brings a return but also generates a second or third return, such as having a positive social impact...
La Opinión, Op-ed, Adrián Sánchez, Translated by Elena Shore
Photo: Aurelia Ventura/La Opinión
Health care reform is already helping people struggling to get health insurance...
New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram and Paul Kleyman
Photo: Arsenio I. Jimenez, MD, examines patient at Sacramento’s Molina Medical Clinic...
New America Media, Video, Khalil Abdullah
BALTIMORE — As one of America’s top ten wealthiest states and one that trends heavily Democratic, Maryland was among the nation’s first to move full throttle to implement the Affordable Care Act...
New America Media, News Report, Suzanne Manneh,
Photo: Courtesy FL CHAIN
Florida’s Republican Governor Rick Scott, reversed himself last month and said his state would expand Medicaid and enact President Obama’s health care reform law...
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