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  • Teen Creates Nation’s First Wearable App to Prevent Farm Worker Deaths from Heat Illness

    PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE SHAFTER, Calif. – Fighting to reduce the high numbers of heat illness and deaths among farm workers in her beloved Central Valley, a concerned California teen has created an app to connect farmers, contractors and farm workers through Apple watches that provides instant health data and...
  • “#Me Too Movement” Against Rape and Harassment Takes to the Streets

    Suzanne Potter California News Service LOS ANGELES – The #Me Too social media campaign that went viral following accusations that movie producer Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed or raped a number of women is now taking to the streets, starting with a march and rally in Los Angeles this Sunday. Tarana Burke,...
  • Psychiatrist Offers Reasons for Hope Despite Rise in Youth Suicide

    Kevin Patrick Allen Public News Service      KANSAS CITY, Mo. – There is hope beyond the headlines, according to a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Children’s Mercy Hospital and Clinics, even as research shows children and teens are taking their lives by suicide in greater numbers. Dr. Shayla Sullivant said...
  • Lawsuit Challenges Transgender Military Ban

    Andrea Sears Public News Service NEW YORK – Civil rights organizations have filed lawsuits to block President Trump’s ban on military service by transgender people from going into effect. A presidential directive issued on Friday August 25th bars transgender individuals from enlisting, prohibits coverage for certain medical procedures and...
  • Día de la Conciencia de Sobredosis: cómo prevenir la tragedia en Oregón

    Eric Tegethoff/Alfonso López-Collada Public News Service PORTLAND, Ore. – Agosto 31 fue el Día Internacional de la Conciencia de Sobredosis, una fecha para visibilizar la lucha que los expertos médicos en Oregón y en todo el país libran contra la creciente epidemia de esta causa prevenible de muerte. Y...
  • Outraged? Make a Difference

    Shelly Palmer “I don’t want to be Jewish anymore.” My grandmother looked sympathetically at her seven-year-old grandson and asked why. “Everyone hates us, the Nazis killed us, and I don’t want to be killed just because I’m Jewish.” During the course of that afternoon, my grandmother told me the...
  • Advocates Call Trump Legal Immigration Proposal Racist, Inhumane

    Suzanne Potter California News Service LOS ANGELES — Immigrant-rights groups are calling President Trump’s proposal to cut legal immigration by half racist and mean-spirited. On Wednesday August 2nd, the president endorsed the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy Act, or RAISE Act, which would favor English-speaking, high-skill immigrants...
  • Are Older Americans Key to Revitalizing Small Towns?

    Eric Tegethoff Public News Service BOISE, Idaho – Rural Idaho communities that are looking to revitalize themselves should consider investing in one of the country’s greatest assets: older Americans. That’s according to researcher and small-town consultant Doug Griffiths, who is also the author of “13 Ways to Kill Your...
  • A Look Into Trump’s Transgender Ban


    Estephany Haro El Observador President Trump announced on Wednesday July 26th via twitter that he would be banning all transgender citizens from joining the military of the United States in all capacities, unleashing controversy across the country from those affected directed and from the people that supports the transgender...
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