Health

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sweeping changes to the State’s Medicaid program – called “Medi-Cal” – is the focus of two identical bills before the Assembly Health Committee (SB 208) and Senate Health Committee (AB 342). The Schwarzenegger Administration proposal submitted to the federal government earlier this month will have a major impact on hundreds of thousands of children and adults with disabilities, mental health needs, the blind, seniors, and persons without health insurance.&nbsp;</p>

Shaun Phillips visits Montgomery Middle in support of afterschool program

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The United States and Mexico share a 2000-mile border where a population of 9 million is growing more than twice as fast as the populations of U.S. and Mexico.</p>

By: Beatriz Terrazas 

    My friend asked the question during a conversation about my mother, who has Alzheimer’s: What about a nursing home? She asked because I was on my way to El Paso to relieve my sister for two weeks. My sister works fulltime but she is in charge of scheduling Mom’s care. She ferries Mom to doctor and dentist appointments, and back and forth between their homes. It’s a tough job. Which is why periodically I step in to help.

   Father’s Day honors fathers and celebrates a father’s influence on the family.  It is celebrated in a variety of ways—cards, hand made gifts, favorite foods and affection. But when a father lights up a cigarette, he puts a smoke screen between himself and his adoring family. If he smokes outside, he cuts himself off from precious time with his loved ones. If he smokes indoors, he exposes them to secondhand smoke—a toxic carcinogenic with no safe level of exposure.

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A few blocks from California’s political epicenter, the capitol in Sacramento, in a neighborhood where drug sales are common, on the second floor of a dilapidated house, are three dark rooms. Living there is 82-year old don Jesus Ruiz.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; During election years, we hear candidates complain a lot about wasteful government programs. But a recent study by the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute provides startling news about one California program that has solved 52% of a social problem in just 13 years, and saved the state billions of dollars in the process.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; This month marks the 50th&nbsp;anniversary of the approval of the birth control pill by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1960. As even golden anniversaries go, this is a big one. The pill literally changed everything for women. This anniversary should both stir memories of changes big and small and spark action to ensure that every woman who wishes to do so, benefits from the pill and other forms of birth control.</p>