(Editor’s note: Reprinted with the permission of Fresnoland.) Madera residents from Punjabi Sikh and Indigenous migrant farmworker communities have been heavily impacted by the Madera hospital [...] Continue Reading
Healthcare
Diagnosing Dementia Early Can Help Slow Progression
(Editor’s note: This article is reprinted courtesy of California State University–San Francisco.) Diagnosing dementia is often difficult. The brain itself is complicated, so someone suffering from [...] Continue Reading
Maderans Receive Insight to Hospital Closure
By Johanna Torres The Madera Community Hospital (MCH) announced its closure less than a week before officially closing last year, leaving Maderans with many questions and concerns. As the MCH [...] Continue Reading
Court Orders Reconsideration of Cancer-Causing Pesticide Regulation
In early March, the Alameda County Superior Court ruled that a proposed regulation fails to protect farmworkers who labor near fumigated fields from harmful levels of exposure to the cancer-causing [...] Continue Reading
Making Sense of Mental Illness
There are so many ways we are confused about mental illness. What is going on in the minds of people whose words and behavior don’t make sense? Where can a family turn for help when a loved one shows [...] Continue Reading
¿Nos Protegen las Mascarillas de los Virus?
(Nota del Editor: esta nota fue originalmente publicada por Ethnic Media Services, https://ethnicmediaservices.org/category/spanish-translations/) Una red internacional de investigadores sanitarios [...] Continue Reading
Dar Sentido a la Enfermedad Mental
Hay muchas cosas que no sabemos o entendemos sobre las enfermedades mentales. ¿Qué está pasando en la mente de las personas cuyas palabras y comportamiento no tienen sentido? ¿A dónde puede acudir una [...] Continue Reading
Human Cost of Madera County Losing Hospital
(Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Fresnoland (fresnoland.org), a nonprofit news organization.) For the past 15 years, Tammie Myers worked as a licensed vocational nurse in [...] Continue Reading
March 2002
You can read the .pdf version of the March 2002 Community Alliance below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your cursor over the [...] Continue Reading
January 2002
You can read the .pdf version of the January 2002 Community Alliance below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your cursor over [...] Continue Reading