This spring, the San Francisco Health Department is planning to conduct its third “Speak Out” HIV awareness campaign in the last 12 months, urging young men who have sex with other men to get tested for HIV in an effort to increase the number of people—men in particular—who are tested for the virus and referred for treatment if they prove to be HIV positive.
Pharmacy chain CVS Caremark announced today that it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its more than 7,600 CVS/pharmacy stores across the U.S. by October 1, 2014, becoming the first national pharmacy chain to do so.
When a doctor sees a patient at Olympia Hospital in Los Angeles for a routine, 15-minute consultation, the hospital typically bills Medicare about $1,100 for the service. Two miles away, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center bills the government just under $200 for the same kind of visit.
Nationally, the foster care system is a long-term home to more children of color than White children. The disparities in California are particularly alarming, with more than half of African American foster children in care for more than two years. Forty-five percent of Native American foster children have also been in the system, which was built to be a short-term solution, for more than two years.
As shootings and school-related torment reach new and frightening levels, the dialogue over bullying has taken center stage in American culture. Yet the same cannot be said of a similar, silent epidemic with shocking statistics and brutal realities: elder bullying and abuse.