(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
Science & Health
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
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
Excremental Change: Public Toilets Needed Now
A livable city should have an adequate number of public toilets. Urban planners plan for public spaces, pedestrian access, good transit and parks, but they almost never plan for providing public [...] Continue Reading
We Are on Our Own
On Dec. 20, 2022, the Fresno Bee reported on the status of hospital beds during the current surge of Covid-19, influenza, RSV and other respiratory infections. As of Dec. 20, Fresno County hospital [...] Continue Reading
10 Years of Covered California
Ten years ago, Covered California started to enroll people to its wide variety of health insurance options. Called a “market of health insurance,” its originality resides in the chance to shop for the [...] Continue Reading
Our “Right to Know” When Pesticides Are Applied
On Nov. 10, the small town of Orosi in northern Tulare County was the setting as more than a hundred residents from various counties across the San Joaquin Valley (Kern, Fresno, Madera, Stanislaus, [...] Continue Reading
Covered California Cumple 10 Años
Hace diez años, Covered California comenzó a inscribir a las personas en su amplia variedad de opciones de seguro médico. Llamado “mercado de seguros de salud”, su originalidad reside en la [...] Continue Reading
Lack of Toilets for Homeless a Public Health Crisis
By age 40, Jack Sim had gotten rich off the construction industry in Singapore. (No, life “didn’t end” for him then.) At 41, he founded the restroom association in that sovereign nation-state that [...] Continue Reading
Increased Investment in Healthcare Worker Retention
To fight for the health of my patients at Golden Valley Health Center, I, along with hundreds of community clinic workers united in SEIU, traveled to Sacramento to make sure that lawmakers heard [...] Continue Reading