AltWeeklies Wire
The Pill and the Paupernew
Colorado doctors address the birth-control compromise -- and the masses still at risk.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Sara Michael |
02-16-2012 |
Health
The Horrors of the Gluten-Sensitive Sufferernew
Imagine that for your entire life you have felt sick. Between the fatigue, stomach pains, and nausea, you have been stuck in an endless cycle of dining roulette. Needless to say, your life is scoring a wee bit low on the fun-scale.
Charleston City Paper |
Nikki Seibert |
02-09-2012 |
Health
Doctor Against Birth Control for Employeesnew
A Twin Cities-based dermatologist may close down his business rather than offer his employees contraception.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Aaron Rupar |
02-03-2012 |
Health
Silent Killer Has Lawmakers Seeing Rednew
Lawmakers red dresses highlight the toll heart disease and strokes take on Hoosier women - killing about 24 in Indiana each day.
Bond of Brothersnew
A first-person account of how schizophrenia has defined our relationship, for good and bad.
Chico News & Review |
Ken Smith |
01-12-2012 |
Health
Stubborn, Wide-Spread HIV in San Antonionew
When the Texas Department of State Health Services released updates to their 2010 study on HIV/AIDS just before Christmas last year, something seemed amiss.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-11-2012 |
Health
Illness and Ignorancenew
Tucson-area mental-health services these days are trying to do more with less in funding.
Tucson Weekly |
Brian J. Pedersen |
01-04-2012 |
Health
Hundreds of Mentally Ill Stranded in Texas Jailsnew
Defendants in Texas with severe mental illness land in the criminal justice system where they're forced to languish for months behind bars while an overburdened state hospital system struggles to find room.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
01-04-2012 |
Health
How to Avoid Chiggersnew
If you have lived in the South long enough, some old coot has probably told you that the best way to treat chigger bites is by applying fingernail polish to your skin. He probably also told you that chiggers burrow into your skin to suck your blood and that the polish suffocates them.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
01-02-2012 |
Health
Reliance on High-tech and High-turnover Leading to Lawsuits in ‘Hospitalist’-heavy San Antonionew
Olga De La Zerda went into Metropolitan Methodist Hospital on February 16 to determine if a bit of congestion was a sign of a more serious infection. It should have been a simple day of observation in the hospital, her family alleges, but care for the 87-year-old was transferred over to a “hospitalist” doctor tasked with managing many more patients.
San Antonio Current |
Robert Crowe |
12-08-2011 |
Health
No Cannabis for the Sick and Dyingnew
Fifteen years after Prop 215, the people who need medical marijuana the most have the hardest time getting it.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
12-06-2011 |
Health
Going Viralnew
A 2010 tuberculosis outbreak highlights the shocking failure of a Florida Health Department to contain the crisis or warn the public.
Folio Weekly |
Susan Cooper Eastman |
12-06-2011 |
Health
Indiana Makes Strides Against AIDSnew
The scourge of HIV/AIDS is 100 percent preventable by keeping in mind some simple words of wisdom from local infectious disease specialist Bobbi Delon:
"If it's wet and it's not yours, don't touch it without protection."
To fight AIDS, we must fight its stigmanew
Building acceptance by society and self will help defeat disease.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Craig Washington |
11-30-2011 |
Health
Junkienew
Attempts to prevent drug use paint addicts as monsters. Guess who then hides their addiction?
Reno News & Review |
Devin Hansrote |
11-21-2011 |
Health
