The evidence is clear: Children’s clothing departments offer an assortment of candy-colored push-up bras, while extra-small menstrual pads come decorated with sparkly star designs that appeal to elementary schoolgirls. An advertisement for “Fresh Kidz” deodorant touts a child-friendly formula designed for “younger, sensitive skins.”
Santa Cruz County’s Sheriff’s Department is applying for a state grant to change the way it houses some inmates, creating a stepping stone to independence, they say, by creating a minimum-security rehabilitation and reentry facility with 64 private rooms at the county jail.
A review of some recent studies by leading researchers at several medical and research centers around the U.S. has found that people are less likely to experience dementia and Alzheimer’s disease today than they were 20 years ago – and those who do may be developing it later in life.
A new report from the California Department of Public Health shows that the infant mortality rate in the state in 2012, the last year for which the department has statistics, was a record low of 4.5 infant deaths per 1,000 live births.
Public health, obesity, school, business and community experts convened in Washington, D.C. last week at the inaugural workshop of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) new Roundtable on Obesity Solutions.
Two patients, strangers to one another, chitchat comfortably about their pets in the waiting room of Lyon Martin Health Services in San Francisco. Another patient says that her appointment at Lyon Martin is the highlight of her day as she makes her way back to the exam room.
A ruling by the California Superior Court requires three paint companies, Sherwin Williams, National Lead and ConAgra, to pay $1.15 billion into a fund to remove lead paint from homes in several California counties and cities.
The strawberry fieldworkers in the Oxnard Plain have been watching the trucks rumble in for years. One after another, tankers dump their loads behind the gated facility. Afterward, a strange odor drifts over the fields — among the most fertile in the nation. But, until recently, that was about all the evidence the mostly immigrant, non-English-speaking workers could gather about the site.
Only one in six adults and only one in four people who reported binge drinking say a health professional has ever discussed alcohol use with them, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Several major tobacco control advocacy groups held a joint press conference in Washington, DC yesterday to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the 1964 Surgeon General’s report on Smoking and Health and issue a call to action in the U.S. to further reduce smoking rates and exposure to second hand smoke.