New America Media: Health

Dangerous Talk in the Capitol: More Money Does Improve Indian Health

New America Media, Commentary, Mark Trahant, Posted: Mar 20, 2013

Data shows that more government spending does indeed work and that the Indian Health Service could use more. This is dangerous talk in DC.

Aging Between Two Worlds: Hispanic Elders Thrive on Faith, Optimism, Tradition

HuffPost Voces/New America Media, News Feature, Yolanda Gonzalez Gomez , Posted: Mar 20, 2013

Despite lives of poverty and struggle, Texas Latino elders stay positive and thrive. But the U.S. cannot long sustain its divide into two Americas, rich and poor.

PEARLS Helps End Depression for Seattle’s Filipino Elders

Filipino-American Bulletin/New America Media , News Feature, Sluggo Rigor , Posted: Mar 19, 2013

Ex-Marine Gino Ragudos, 67, is among older Filipino vets helped by the PEARLS program to control minor depression before it becomes major.

DOCTOR’S WORD: Can Physicians Cope with a ‘Silver Tsunami?’

Physician’s Money Digest/New America Media , Commentary, Eric Anderson , Posted: Mar 13, 2013

The huge and diverse aging boomer generation—the “Silver Tsunami”—means the U.S. faces a shortage of doctors to care for them.

Parents Sue to Remove Yoga from Calif. School District

India West, News Report, Monica Luhar, Posted: Mar 11, 2013

A civil lawsuit alleges that a school district in San Diego county, by providing instruction in Ashtanga yoga, is promoting religious beliefs.

The Case for Mandatory Full-Time Nursing Home Doctors

Psychology Today/New America Media, News Analysis, Rita Watson, Posted: Mar 08, 2013

Nursing homes could improve care and eliminate shameful treatment, such as drugging residents to quiet them, if more would hire a full-time physician.

ACA Would Close Florida's 'Deplorable' Health Gap

Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, Video, Mc Nelly Torres, Posted: Mar 01, 2013

Some 500,000 children in Florida have no access to health care services, stark figures that the ACA could help erase. (Tradución en Español)

U.S. “Sequestration” Cuts Would Harm Black, Latino Babies

New America Media, News Report, Khalil Abdullah, Posted: Mar 01, 2013

If “sequestration” in federal funding take effect, says a new report, black and Latino babies would be denied prenatal and newborn nutritional care.

For One Young Woman, Parents' Health Care a Life Saver

La Opinión/New America Media, News Report, Yurina Melara Valiulis, Posted: Feb 27, 2013

For Evelyn Garcia, an apple allergy leads to a costly night at the hospital just days before she turns 26, too old for her parent's health care.

Report: African Americans Over-represented in Residential Mental Health Facilities

The Hartford Guardian, News Report, Posted: Feb 26, 2013

The disproportionate number of blacks in inpatient or residential treatment is alarming because African Americans have the same rate of mental illness as whites, experts say.