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Physician Founds Think Tank to Innovate Healthcare for Poor

Physician Rishi Manchanda’s epiphany – to develop a new think tank aimed at improving health care for the poor - came last summer as he was treating a patient complaining of severe headaches.

The Booty Bible by Alicia Marie & Marla Miller, RN, MSN

This Baby Boomer partnered with a Gen Y-er and here's the result. To enhance our platform, The Booty Bible's 'home' website is called fitPOP.com anda video TV series, Cardio World, stars Alicia Marie. Marla's column @ fitPOP is called Ageless Fitness

Serie Especial: Mi Salud (Special Series: Mi Salud)

Patients and providers of Mi Salud talk about the lack of preventive services.

Serie Especial: Mi Salud (Special Series: Mi Salud)

Aseguradas de Mi Salud llegan tarde al cuidado prenatal. Enrollees of Puerto Rico's Health Reform get late prenatal care.

Serie Especial: Mi Salud (Special Series: Mi Salud)

Package of investigative stories of Mi Salud, Puerto Rico's Health Reform.

Serie Especial: Mi Salud (Special Series: Mi Salud)

Package of investigative stories about Mi Salud to find out if the enrollees are receiving preventive medicine services.

American Red Cross Fined $9.6 Million for Unsafe Blood Collection

The American Red Cross, the largest supplier of donated blood in the U.S., was fined $9.6 million after federal inspectors found hundreds of blood safety violations at 16 of the organization’s 36 blood collection centers nationwide.

'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.

Parkinson's Alley

Recent studies have found statistical links between pesticide use and an outbreak of Parkinson's disease in California farm towns. Researchers even know which chemicals are the likely culprits. What's the government doing about it? Not much.

Examining local universal care: How San Francisco took an independent — and expensive — approach to covering the uninsured

In 2007, San Francisco embarked on a rare and bold experiment, resolving to provide universal health care to its residents. Four years later, Healthy San Francisco has an enrollment of 54,000 people — between half and three-quarters of the estimated uninsured population. But the city has dug deep, and the program has earned less than expected from other sources. Can this ambitious program be sustained financially? The short answer, after a three-month investigation by the San Francisco Public Press: yes — but only if the economy picks up, federal grants continue to flow and businesses stop fighting health care mandates. The project, produced with the support of the USC Annenberg/California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship, appeared in November at SFPublicPress.org and as the cover story of the Public Press' quarterly broadsheet newspaper edition.

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