Focus on Health: Race and Poverty and Immigration in America Today
October 16th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Focus on Health, Latest News with 0 Comments
BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — An Oglala Lakota doctor will discuss Native American health disparities during a presentation at South Dakota State University this week.
Don Warne is a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe and completed medical school at Stanford University. He will discuss American Indian health during a presentation at SDSU on Wednesday. The presentation is free and open to the public.
As a...
September 13th, 2012
Written by Wendy Innes in Focus on Health, Latest News with 0 Comments
In the United States, doctors diagnose women with some type of gynecological cancer every six minutes, which adds up to more than 83,000 new cases each year and over 27,000 women a year lose the battle. Gynecological cancers include uterine cancer (endometrial cancer), ovarian cancer, peritoneal cancer, fallopian tube cancer, cervical cancer, vaginal cancer, and vulvar cancer.
While the risk...
August 23rd, 2012
Written by Rita Cook in Focus on Health, Latest News with 0 Comments
Algae, a miracle health food provided by Mother Nature, and Catharine Arnston, Founder and CEO of the Naughty Nutritionist Inc. agrees. According to NASA, World Bank, and the United Nations algae is the most nutritionally dense food in the world. It has 3 times more protein than steak, 50 times more iron than spinach, 4 times more chlorophyll than wheatgrass, all electrolytes, most B vitamins,...
July 24th, 2012
Written by Rita Cook in Focus on Health, Latest News with 0 Comments
All children’s vaccinations are important.That’s what Michael Marshall, MD, an independently practicing physician on the medical staff at Methodist Charlton Medical Center, specializing in pediatrics and internal medicine in Dallas, Texas, says.“The ones that are going to trip parents up the most this year are the relatively new requirements for the tetanus diphtheria, acellular pertussis, and...
June 27th, 2012
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Cause and Civility, Focus on Health, Latest News with 0 Comments
The Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare policy passed by the Obama administration, will have an impact positively or negatively on all Americans, whether you are white, black, brown, or yellow. Obama Care, as the policy is labeled, seeks to significantly increase the number of Americans who have healthcare coverage.Isn’t that a positive, a good thing? If not, why not?...
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