Health

Teen pregnancy especially high among Minnesota’s Latinas

By Kevin Keen, La Prensa de Minnesota
Minnesota’s teen birth rate increased 7 percent between 2005 and 2006, the Minnesota Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention and Parenting reported.MORE »

The feminization of AIDS

By James Sanna, TC Daily Planet

(Photo by Adam Sims, licensed under Creative Commons)

Lois Crenshaw, an AIDS activist, former Chicago police officer, and Minneapolis resident, is one of the estimated 1,367 Minnesota women living with HIV, who represent 23% of all cases of HIV or AIDS iMORE »

HIV infections increase among Africans in Minnesota

By Nekessa Opoti, Mshale
A recent report by the Minnesota Department of Health, the “HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report” says that the number of new HIV infections has increased among all state demographics including African-born iMORE »

Regulating patient safety

By Patty Ostberg, Session Weekly
There’s a famous “I Love Lucy” episode where Lucille Ball is working in a candy factory. Her job is to grab and wrap each candy piece as it goes by on a conveyer belt, but Lucy just can’t keep up.MORE »

Book note: New "Bodies"

By Jennifer Holder, TC Daily Planet

Cover art ©2008 Touchstone

Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth is the latest in the series of books by the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective providing information about women’s health and sexuality.MORE »

Answering the questions we never dared to ask

By Jennifer Holder, TC Daily Planet

Joan Ditzion (left) and Jennifer Holder (right). Photo courtesy Jennifer Holder.

Do you remember when you first read Our Bodies, Ourselves?MORE »

When It Comes to Health Care, Gov. Pawlenty Should Lead or Get Out of the Way

By Matt Entenza, Minnesota 2020
If nature abhors a vacuum, then it has to hate what's going on with the governor and health care. What we're witnessing in St.MORE »

Compassion in medicine

By Jennifer Holder, TC Daily Planet

Photo by Alexander Wrege in 2003, Creative Commons license

Mayo Clinic scientists, doctors and other health professionals waited April 16 under the glare of the security staff stationed in the conference room at Mayo Clinic.MORE »

Zambians pledge stronger voice in disability advocacy

By Ntuv Tunka, African News Journal
Early this year, Arc members Amy Hewitt from Institute on Community Integration, and Sandy Beddor visited Zambia, met families and individuals with disabilities and made connections with government anMORE »

Don't look to disability programs to balance the state budget

By Steve Larson, Minnesota 2020
With the state facing a projected $935 million deficit in the budget for the rest of the 2008-2009 biennium, disability advocates suspected that human services - and disability supports in particular MORE »
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