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Finding mental health somewhere between east and west

"Inside Out" is a public radio series that will begin a conversation about the mental health of Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPIs). These radio and multimedia stories examine the experience and understanding of mental health from the perspective of several Bay Area residents of differing AAPI ethnicities. They reveal barriers to care, like...

At 92, she's still haunted by Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia

Sath Om is the lone survivor. But each night she says they come to her: the spirits of her family asking for her help asking for justice.

Sam Keo: Soul-searching helps win battle in mind

Day or night Sam Keo would be visited by his late mother and dead baby brother. Problem is, it was more than 15 years since Keo's brother had died at the age of 3 from malnutrition and eight years since his mom had died of ovarian cancer. 

Kwashiorkor Research Shows Prime Healthcare's Cases Must Be Off Base

Prime Healthcare, says that it has to bill Medicare for kwashiorkor when doctors there find someone with a protein deficiency. Antidote talked to one of the leading experts on kwashiorkor, who offered some surprising insights.

Banning Chocolate Milk In School: Could It Really Prevent Child Obesity?

Banning chocolate milk in schools, a newspaper's searing assisted living investigation and more from our Daily Briefing.

Kwashiorkor in Surf City: 5 Tips from California Watch's Medicare billing investigation

Picture a honey sunrise glistening across the Pacific. A wave rises up, lifting a golden surfer, hair flapping in the wind like a flag as he negotiates a perfect turn and glides toward the beach. He steps onto the sand and his smile falls. Among the women in bikinis and men playing volleyball is a horrible scene of human suffering: a throng of senior citizens in wheel chairs, their bellies distended from malnutrition, flies landing on their eyelids, which are too sapped of any strength even to blink them away.

Sarah Palin Criticized for Mocking Michelle Obama on Breastfeeding

Why did a Northern California hospital chain report suspiciously high rates of malnutrition in its elderly patients? Answers and more from our Daily Briefing.

Covering Food Deserts

Veteran food policy journalist Christopher Cook offers context on "food deserts" and how to identify and report on them in your community.

Hunger and Obesity in the Bronx

Imagine living in the Bronx.

It’s in one of the greatest cities in the world. Yet the Bronx has the highest incidence of obesity in New York City, while also having the most residents who do not have enough money to buy food, according to a New York Times story.

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