by Katherine Huggins and Julia Mueller | May 24, 2022 | Featured, Health, Urban Indian Healthcare
MINNEAPOLIS — Tucked away on a side street near downtown, the Mashkiki Waakaa’igan Pharmacy offers its Native American clientele the services of any ordinary drugstore — it dispenses critical medication and provides consultation on treatments. But there are two key...
by Andrew Marquardt and Hannah Schoenbaum | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Health, Urban Indian Healthcare
CHICAGO – Sarina DiMaso, a citizen of the Chiricahua Apache and Taino Nations, stumbled into her Chicago home seven years ago after a drug and alcohol binge to find her 24-year-old daughter, Nicole, dead by suicide in DiMaso’s bedroom. Riddled with guilt and trapped...
by Julia Shapero | Feb 11, 2022 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – Amid a worker shortage exacerbated by the pandemic, health care professionals suggested to senators Thursday that Congress boost opportunities for their industry and reduce regulations. “I have heard from so many nurses and doctors and other health...
by Annie Klingenberg | Feb 8, 2022 | Featured, Health
United States senators and LGBTQ+ advocates are calling on on the FDA to remove restrictions that add obstacles for blood donations from men who have sex with men, as the American Red Cross deals with a blood shortage it called the worst in more than a decade.Since...
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by Andrew Marquardt | Jan 28, 2022 | Featured, Health
Amy Neville looked out through her sunglasses to a crowd of more than two dozen parents and activists that had gathered outside Snap, Inc.’s Santa Monica headquarters last Friday to demand the company do more to combat illicit drug sales on its platform. Holding...
by Ariel Gans | Jan 26, 2022 | Featured, Health
Lorraine Pereira’s mental health treatment has been in a state of limbo since August 2021.That’s when the 23-year-old moved from Iowa to California for a research assistant position at the University of California, San Francisco. That’s also when she...
