Posts Tagged as "Health"

Global Aging: Engine for Growth–or Fiscal Nightmare?

Jan. 9, 2013 / By
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Reporting on Health/New America Media, News Analysis, Eileen Beal, Posted: Jan 09, 2013

Photo: Nile Sprague/HelpAge International 

SAN DIEGO–Keeping older people healthy so they can be independent and productive well into their 70s – and even 80s – isn’t just a medical challenge, it’s also an economic challenge, said Michael W...

A Healthy Long Beach Is…

Jan. 2, 2013 / By
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VoiceWaves Journalist Wendy Lopez asked Long Beach residents, “What does a healthy community look like?” Here’s what Camerine Ponn had to say...

Doctor’s Word: Why Bridging Practitioners to Elder Research Makes Sense

Dec. 24, 2012 / By
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Physician’s Money Digest / New America Media, News Analysis, Eric Anderson, Posted:Dec 15, 2012

SAN DIEGO–Academic experts in aging stand on their college and university hilltops watching the health care battles going on down below...

From Trauma to Dancing—Eldercare Will Challenge Boomer Generation

Dec. 12, 2012 / By
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Providence Journal/New America Media , News Feature, Rita Watson

SAN DIEG0–Nursing homes are often associated with the last chapter in people’s lives...

Nutrition to Help You Fight Cancer

Dec. 10, 2012 / By
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From WebMD

By Peter Jaret

Reviewed By Laura J. Martin, MD

Keep eating fish, nuts, fruits, and vegetables.

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Undocumented and Abused: One Woman’s Story

Dec. 7, 2012 / By
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When Ana Del Valle* arrived to the United States from Morelos, Mexico in the late 1980s to reunite with her husband in Los Angeles, she left behind everything and everyone she had known: her daughter, her sisters, her mother, and her country...

How Long and How Well Will You Live?

Dec. 6, 2012 / By
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Did you know your zip code predicts how long and how well you live? Find out how here..

Legalize It: The Economic Debate in Long Beach

Nov. 30, 2012 / By
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By VoiceWaves Youth Reporter Abbey Rhodes

This month Colorado and Washington State legalized marijuana for medicinal and recreational use...

Inside the First Long Beach Toxic Tour

Nov. 29, 2012 / By
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By VoiceWaves Guest Youth Reporter Kaitlyn Smith

The noxious smell of diesel began to fill my nose as the bus for the first Toxic Tour departed for our two-hour journey through Long Beach...

America’s Demographic Destiny—Aging Fast, But Unprepared

Nov. 28, 2012 / By
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Physician’s Money Digest/New America Media, News Analysis, Eric Anderson, MD, Posted:Nov 28, 2012

SAN DIEGO–The U.S...

Health Happens in Neighborhoods

Nov. 23, 2012 / By
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More than 1 million Californians have to drive 20 minutes or longer to find fresh produce...

Addressing Bullying Takes More Than a Month

Nov. 14, 2012 / By
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Every seven minutes an incident of bullying occurs somewhere in the world.

Bullying can cause children to miss school due to fear of being harassed and can even lead to suicides...