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A newly released videotape raises questions about coerced confessions from distraught parents

HIV/AIDS Shows Alarming Rise Among Asian American Women

The increase in HIV infections has risen alarmingly among Asian American women, and will soon surpass the rate of infections in high-risk populations unless intervening measures are taken, noted a panel of experts in San Francisco on May 17.

Career Profile: Former Boston Globe Deputy Editor Karen Weintraub Turns Freelancer

In November, we highlighted two freelance careers in health journalism. This week we have a first-person account of Karen Weintraub's freelance career.

Big NIH winners in Massachusetts

What does it take to get a new, large National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant in these lean times?

Winnie Willis

Winnie O. Willis is a California Endowment board member and professor emeritus of public health at SDSU's Graduate School of Public Health, with a specialization in maternal and child health services, development and evaluation. From 1994 to 2000, she was director of SDSU's Institute for Public Health, an organization working to bridge the gap between academics and practice in the public health arena. Prior to joining the GSPH faculty in 1984, she was an assistant professor of maternal and child health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

Wei Yu

Dr. Wei Yu is a professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics School of Public Economics and Administration. He also serves as director for the school's Center for Health Policy and Administration. Wei also is a fellow with the Center for Health Policy (CHP) and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR) at Stanford University. He is a former health economist at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System.  He conducts economic analysis in healthcare studies for national VA healthcare research programs.

Lorena Garcia

Lorena Garcia is an assistant professor, post-doctoral fellow and epidemiologist for the Chicana/o Studies Program at UC Davis. A public health epidemiologist, Lorena Garcia is an expert in disease and health patterns in Latinas. She studies how diabetes, obesity and cancer have become some of the worst diseases affecting Latinas in the United States. Garcia has also researched domestic violence among Latinos, working with the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center. Garcia has found that domestic violence for Latina women worsens when they immigrate to the United States.

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