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Sustenance
Good ingredients for your 2009 New Year’s resolutions by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, M.D. At the Mo’ Better Food Market Shopper in West Oakland, shopper Amaranth Modacure greets founder David Roach. This...
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The chicken or the egg?
Community scientists partner with research institutes for $2 million in NIEH funding for community exposure research by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, M.D. Two years ago, in March 2007, when this photo was...
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Letter to Lisa Jackson, EPA chief: Navy was wrong to dissolve RAB
by Leon Muhammad, RAB community co-chair Leon Muhammad (left) chairs the RAB meeting June 28, 2008. - Photo: Francisco Da Costa Dear Lisa Jackson, your immediate attention is needed to help our...
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Black flight
by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, M.D., UCSF Class of ’81 Presentation to UCSF medical students Feb. 15, 2008, published in Germany Feb. 7, 2010 Eleanora “Billie” Holiday sang of “strange fruit” hanging on...
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How does Cuba do it?
by Cheryl LaBash Cuba practices “medical diplomacy.” The small, poor country not only “exports” doctors to serve needy communities in other countries – Cuban doctors are the backbone of health care in...
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Sacramento cancer rate dropped after shutdown of Rancho Seco reactor – 4,319...
The first long-term study of the full-population health impacts of the closure of a U.S. nuclear reactor found 4,319 fewer cancers over 20 years, with declines in cancer incidence in 28 of 31...
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Saving Our Future combats high infant and maternal mortality rates among...
by Laura Savage African and African American women face an infant and maternal mortality crisis in America! Infants and maternal mortality rates in these communities are twice as high as the rates for...
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War on poverty wages on
by Jesse Jackson Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson, lamenting that too many Americans “live on the outskirts of hope,” declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” This will...
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Stars and Bars and Stripes: Are you ready for this conversation on race?
by Cynthia McKinney The conversation has been joined. Let’s carry it all the way until we can finish it, now, too. Are we ready, finally, to have the conversation on race that President Bill Clinton...
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