Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

• Domestic Violence Is a Growing Scourge In Our Society –

  Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

  “Domestic Violence can take the form of threats, verbal abuse such as taunting, telling women and children they are fat, ugly, unseemly; blaming them for things over which they have no control. It is an escalating pattern of coercive behavior that includes physical, sexual, and psychological assaults against a current or former intimate partner or against children.”

• Have We Politicized Our Public Health? How about the HPV Vaccination?

  Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

  “The people making political hay out of HPV vaccination in this country will not be around in 30 years to be held accountable by today’s young women when they face cervical cancer diagnoses.”
  William Schaffner, M.D., President of the National Foundation of Infectious Diseases.

• Honoring Hispanic Heritage Month Sept. 15 – October 15, 2011

  Saturday, September 10th, 2011

  “The single most important financial access barrier to receiving health care services is lack of health insurance coverage. In 2010, in these United States, more than 46 million Americans did not have access to health care insurance and as such could not receive care except in an emergency room.”

• About Health and Well-Being – OneWorld Progressive Institute, Inc Connects Readers to Information Resources

  Friday, September 9th, 2011

  “Some teens with type 2 diabetes already show signs of impaired heart function”, researchers report.
  “Get effective tips that will help you feel your best during the important transition called menopause.”
  “An increasing number of young people are showing up with diseases such as high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes — diseases usually associated with older adults. Impaired Heart Function In Teens with diabetes!”

• Poverty A Risk Factor For Heart Disease – Learn More

  Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

  “People with low socioeconomic status need to have their heart-disease indicators managed more aggressively.” They have a 50 percent greater risk of developing heart disease than other study participants.