The Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) seems incompetent, indifferent and neglectful as they preside over a county care and service crisis. Several examples of the board’s offensive and obdurate [...] Continue Reading
Science & Health
Social Services Workers Protest Poor Working Conditions
More than 120 Fresno County Department of Social Service (DSS) workers formed an informational picket line on their lunch break on Sept. 13 to protest poor working conditions that result in poor [...] Continue Reading
Kill the Poor
The well-known punk rock band, the Dead Kennedys, released a song in 1980 about the neutron bomb called “Kill the Poor.” Here’s some of the lyrics. Now that we have the neutron bomb It’s nice [...] Continue Reading
Crisis de Atención al Paciente
El 25 de mayo un mar púrpura envolvió el capitolio. Más de 600 trabajadores de la salud, asistentes médicos, cuidadores domiciliarios, trabajadores de clínicas, médicos residentes y pacientes que [...] Continue Reading
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
La Importancia y los Beneficios de Hablar con tus Hijos Sobre la Sexualidad
Por CLAUDIA POWELL Una de las principales razones por las que los temas relacionados con sexualidad continúan siendo un tabú en muchos hogares y muchas instituciones es por la falta de comunicación [...] Continue Reading
Abortion Bans an Indicator of Misogyny
We have returned to the situation of 50 years ago, when abortion was available only in some regions of some states. As an abortion counselor in southern Illinois in the 1970s, the author raised money [...] Continue Reading