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'That Feeling Doesn't Go Away': Mental Health and Undocumented Children

Jose Arreola’s parents told him at age five that he couldn’t speak Spanish in public, and couldn’t tell anyone where the family was from, or his mom and dad could be taken away....

For Asian American women, depression and suicide go largely unseen

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Asian American women aged 15 to 24 have the highest rates of depressive symptoms of any ethnic or gender group.

San Francisco Kids Don't Get Enough Physical Education

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco have quantified just how little physical education students at public elementary schools in the city get. At many schools, kids get far less than the state requires. 

'Threat' of Jogging More Convincing Than Calorie Count in Curbing Soda Sales: Study

Sodas, sports drinks, and other sugar-sweetened beverages appear less tempting to consumers when labels show caloric information in terms of minutes of jogging rather than as absolute calorie counts, new research from two leading public health universities suggests.

Funds to fight a drug epidemic cut even as abuse of medicines kills record number of Kentuckians

As drug-related deaths continue to rise, state funding for patient outreach is on the decline. This story is part of a series that examines prescription drug abuse in Kentucky.

Glenn Lopez

Glenn Lopez is an Assistant Professor at UCLA Department of Family Medicine and Coinvestigatorof UCLA's Community Engagement and Research Program.

Ted Corbin

Ted Corbin is an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Drexel University College of Medicine and co-director of the Center for Nonviolence & Social Justice there. He also serves as the medical director for the center's Healing Hurt People program, an emergency department-based intervention strategy for victims of intentional injury. Dr. Corbin received his master’s degree in public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

The Cost of Foodborne Illness: $152 Billion Annually?

We’ve probably all experienced food poisoning at one time or another. When it happens, it seems like nothing is worse than “praying to the porcelain god.”

Usually, it takes only a day or two to pass, and we don’t really think too much about it other than a painful inconvenience. Sometimes we’re not sure what caused it—such as E. coli or salmonella—or where we might have got it.

But some people have more severe cases than others and need hospitalization. In extreme cases, food poisoning could result in death.

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