While new laws have resulted in decreased exposure to tobacco smoke for many workers, employees in some occupations are still exposed to secondhand smoke on the job, according to new research presented this week.
Month: November 2013
Dr. Lemmon McMillan has practiced medicine in South Los Angeles and the surrounding communities since 1976. During the last 37 years he’s seen thousands of patients, many reflecting the community at large: Minority, working class. Currently managing a small family practice, McMillan provides a health care service in an area of Los Angeles widely accepted as being underserved.
Despite recommendations by the US Preventive Services Task Force for adults ages 50 to 75 to be tested for colorectal cancer, about one in three adults in that age range have not had the screening test, according to a new report.
California’s new online insurance marketplace signed up 31,000 customers in the first month it was open for business and another 18,000 in the first two weeks of November, officials said Wednesday.
The 14-acre certified organic farm at the south edge of the San Pasqual Academy is surrounded by commercial farms, orange and grape trees on three sides. It’s a rich metaphor for the academy itself, an organic local effort that’s meant to anchor its community to healthy food, one that’s grown jobs and centered the way the students live.
Sebastian rocks a mean muscle shirt and a cocky Mohawk, but he’s not the kind of guy you’d assume is capable of saving a life. “Sebby,” as his loved ones sometimes call him, is only 18 months old and seems to try to eat his mom’s face when they kiss. But his mother, Elizabeth, says the tyke did, indeed, save her life.
They call themselves “hatters,” their headquarters are the “hatquarters,” and they wear their purple outfits and red hats with serious “hatitude.” But more than anything else, these women over 50 embrace life with an important rule for positive aging: have fun.
California is about to begin a new era of school reform that promises less focus on facts and figures and more attention to critical thinking and problem solving. But the state needs to make sure that dramatic gains in basic skills made by low-income students in the generation since the last major reforms were adopted are not lost in the quest for deeper understanding of complex topics.
New York City’s stop-and-frisk crime-fighting strategy involving street searches of mostly minority residents unleashed a tsunami of controversy. San Francisco is about to try a radically different tactic: Stop and offer therapy.
A new survey of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the Coachella Valley generally shows good news: most participants are insured and say they’re in “good”, “very good” or “excellent” health. However, it also identified serious health gaps, showing that LGBT study participants have high rates of mental illness and domestic violence.