Practitioners say fear of ICE raids and a lack of access to affordable health care can put undocumented and minority populations at risk.
Tag: Diabetes
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Has there really been, as the CDC reports, a huge decline in diabetes complications?
About that new diabetes study from the CDC . . .
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Deadly poverty
Homicide is just one of many killers plaguing Chicago’s poor black neighborhoods
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The terminal illnesses of poverty and segregation
On the persistent poor health of African-Americans
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Now playing: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
A personal essay about chaperoning a field trip to 2007’s Alvin and the Chipmunks
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Your placebo drug information
Take two Pretendia and feel as well as you can imagine.
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Julie Donalek, nurse to the poor
First-person accounts from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford I’m a retired nursing professor. I run a weekly clinic for very-low-income people. Sometimes another nurse or a social worker comes in to help. I can’t prescribe medications, and I don’t manage people’s health care. I provide basic treatments, along with referrals to […]
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6/26 — Free HIV Testing Fair at Christian Community Health Center
Dress It Up!, a National HIV Testing Day event, is Sat 6/26 from noon to 3 PM at Christian Community Health Center.
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11/15 — Free diabetes/cholesterol screening
Saturday: Free diabetes and cholesterol screenings at Norwegian American Hospital