Food and Faith
Brownsville Herald
... more than the average adult, because Tu Salud ¡Si Cuenta! Tu Salud ¡Si Cuenta! is a community-wide campaign of the University of Texas School of Public Health to reduce obesity and related diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular and some types of cancer).



Culture of care
The News Journal
These health differences often are closely linked with social, economic and/or environmental disadvantage. Disparities are documented in many conditions, including: cardiovascular disease, asthma, diabetes, infant mortality, cancer, HIV/AIDS, ...



Boulder Weekly

Funding cut hurts county breast-cancer programs
Boulder Weekly
Poor women, those without health insurance and undocumented immigrant women are among those who will likely feel the greatest impact of this decrease. And it is up to us to make up the difference. Among the organizations that had their funding from the ...

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When it comes to health care, it matters where you live
Imperial Valley Press
She needed emergency surgery, and she may have cancer. A 12-inch rod to fix her broken back and the diagnosis that she had dreaded came next: multiple myeloma nonsecretory type, a rare form of cancer that had eaten away at her bones.

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Mental health treatment newly available at clinics
PennLive.com
In January of this year, four clinics in Santa Cruz County – MediCruz North County Clinic, MediCruz South County Clinic, Salud Para La Gente, and Santa Cruz Women's Health Center – began offering a pilot public health program, called Medicruz Advantage ...

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Local Planned Parenthood supporters named honorary chairs of anniversary event
Del Mar Times
K. Andrew Achterkirchen of Del Mar, a former board member of PPPSW and current board member of Fronteras Unidas Pro Salud, a sister affiliate in Baja, Mexico. The retired electrical engineer volunteers daily in the pre-calculus class at the Preuss ...



Del Mar Times

Local Planned Parenthood supporters named honorary chairs of anniversary event
Del Mar Times
K. Andrew Achterkirchen of Del Mar, a former board member of PPPSW and current board member of Fronteras Unidas Pro Salud, a sister affiliate in Baja, Mexico. The retired electrical engineer volunteers daily in the pre-calculus class at the Preuss ...

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Southwest and Spring Valley Neighborhood News
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Thanks to a $10000 grant from Food 4 Less, Nevada Health Center's Mammovan is scheduled to offer low- to no-cost breast cancer screenings at selected Food 4 Less locations. Stops are scheduled from 8:15 am to 3 pm May 1 at 8180 Las Vegas Blvd. South; ...

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Wiley One and Planet X Release Beastie Boys Tribute
Phoenix New Times (blog)
A link to childrenscancer.org is included with the free download of "Intergalactic" in an effort to raise cancer awareness: "Nothing goes to us. We are simply encouraging people to donate to Childrens' Cancer or get involved any way they can," says ...

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No boycott of All-Stars–TNT
Inquirer.net
Add to this a lengthy press statement from commissioner Chito Salud sent to me by media bureau Dave Coros from Laoag. In the statement, the commissioner justified the foul called by the referees against TNT in the last 1.2 seconds of game seven.

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