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PORTLAND, Ore. – As students head back to school, a visit to the doctor could be just what they need to start the year off right. Pediatrician Katherine Clarke at Southern Oregon Pediatrics in Medford said the transition provides an opportunity to schedule annual exams or wellness visits for kids. Clarke...
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Janet Zamudio Mosaic Journalism Workshop Ashley Diaz excels on the soccer field at San Jose’s Luis Valdez Leadership Academy, but off the field she struggles with anxiety. “It’s really bad there,” she said, referring to how she felt playing for her school. Although she was captain on her team...
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Janet Zamudio Mosaic Journalism Workshop Ashley Díaz sobresale en el campo de fútbol en la Academia de Liderazgo Luis Valdez de San José, pero fuera del campo lucha con ansiedad. “Es realmente malo allí”, dijo, refiriéndose a cómo se sentía jugando para su escuela. Aunque era la capitana de...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Patients and health care advocates rallied on the State Capitol steps Thursday August 29 in favor of Assembly Bill 824, which combats so-called pay-for-delay deals, in which pharmaceutical companies pay generic drug makers to keep their products off the market. The first-in-the nation bill has to pass...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss Earth Talk Depending on how deeply you want to go into environmental studies, there are many colleges that could meet your green-minded learning needs. A great place to begin research is the Princeton Review’s annual “Guide to 399 Green Colleges.” The 9th annual version...
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Guadalajara, Mexico – The recent discovery of the 13,000-year-old bones of a mammoth and of ancestors of the horse and armadillo are further proof of the paleontological riches of southern Jalisco state in western Mexico, an agricultural area where fossils are often in the hands of local settlers without...
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Recently the Trump Administration curtailed the funding for Title X programs which provide for women’s reproductive health care service: pap smears, detection of sexually transmitted diseases, and family planning issues. Title 10 was first enacted during 1970 and has never been curtailed. It is not advisable for this nation...
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Una demanda generalizada interpuesta por el Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), por organizaciones de defensa de migrantes, así como por 15 personas afectadas, arroja más luz sobre el lamentable estado de los 158 centros de detención migratoria de los Estados Unidos, que diariamente pueden tener recluidos a más de...
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SAN JOSE – La Junta de Supervisores del Condado de Santa Clara la semana pasada aprobó por unanimidad una resolución, redactada por el presidente de la Junta Joe Simitian y la Supervisora Susan Ellenburg, que insta al gobierno federal a aprobar una legislación que prohíba la venta de armas...