Study Says Med Schools Lack LGBT Health Education
A Stanford study says medical schools across the U.S. and Canada aren’t spending enough time teaching about gay and lesbian health care needs.
A Stanford study says medical schools across the U.S. and Canada aren’t spending enough time teaching about gay and lesbian health care needs.
A new study has found that a banned flame retardant may affect the birth weight of developing fetuses.
Disabled and elderly people originally admitted to the U.S. as refugees could lose federal cash assistance today, October 1, 2010. Under a new law, they have to be American citizens in order to receive some benefits.
Meet Dina Burgess, a midwife working in Redding, California – and rural towns surrounding Redding – for over 30 years. Burgess talks about the some of the challenges – and benefits – of rural midwifery.
KQED Public Radio’s Health Dialogues looks at a not-so-obvious workplace hazard: industrial strength chemicals used by janitors to clean supermarkets. Janitors with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) rallied recently in front of Safeway and Lucky supermarkets throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area, demanding that their employers provide “green” cleaning products.
Undocumented and Afraid: A first-person account from a woman who hesitated to seek health care because of her immigration status. [Note: due to the personal nature of this story, the subject asked that we protect her identity.]
Is your local market up to health department standards? Tag along with Sheldon Lew, a health inspector from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, as he visits markets in San Francisco’s Outer Mission district. Check out the audio slide show of a food safety inspection in S.F.
Serving Skid Row: KQED Public Radio looks at Addiction. Evans Clark used to count himself among the thousands of homeless people addicted to drugs and living on the streets of Skid Row in Los Angeles. Now recovered, Clark still finds himself on the streets of Skid Row every day. But now, he’s there to help.