NAM original coverage, youth media stories and ethnic media articles on health care and policy in America. For more information on NAM's healthcare coverage coverage, contact Viji Sundaram at vsundaram [at] newamericamedia [dot] org.
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JAMA Study: H1N1 Hits Hard at All Ages
New America Media, News Report, Paul Kleyman and Viji Sundaram, Nov 05, 2009
The swine flu is not just a threat to the young, as previously thought. A new study out indicates that H1N1 affects all age groups, including people over 65.
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Hooping It Up -- The New Fitness Trend
New America Media, News Feature, Crystal Carter, Nov 04, 2009
Popular in the 1950s, today the hula hoop has re-emerged as a popular new fitness trend that more and more people are embracing.
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H1N1, Climate Change, & The Browning of Suburbs
New America Now,  , Oct 30, 2009
Officials from the Centers For Disease Control meet with ethnic media in San Francisco, Rolf Skar from Greenpeace looks at sub-national forest offsets, and Shanti Sekaran discusses her debut novel, The Prayer Room .
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Ethnic Communities Urged to Get H1N1 Flu Shot
New America Now, , Odette Keeley, Oct 30, 2009
This Week on "Stories From the Ethnic Media": CDC officials brief ethnic media in San Francisco on the urgency of getting the H1N1 flu shot; and, a bus brawl unites San Francisco community advocates to ease racial tensions.
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Rape: America's Least Reported Crime
New America Media, News Report, Laura Goode , Oct 29, 2009
Last Saturday night, a 15-year-old girl in Richmond, Calif. survived a brutal gang rape. Reports allege that more than 20 people—genders unspecified—watched. In America a rape occurs every two minutes.
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Immigrant Children Lost in Education Reform
New America Media, Q&A, Carolyn Ji Jong Goossen, Oct 28, 2009
Ruby Takanishi, president and CEO of Foundation for Child Development, recently co-edited a new book titled, "Immigration, Diversity and Education," with Elena L. Grigorenko. She spoke with New America Media Education Editor Carolyn Ji Jong Goossen.
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H1N1 Vaccination: CDC Briefing Boosts Flu Shots and Counters Fears
New America Media, News Report, Annette Fuentes, video by Liat Krawczyk, Oct 27, 2009
Pres. Barack Obama declared the H1N1 flu outbreak a national emergency recently, and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a briefing Monday for ethnic news media in order to debunk fears about flu shots and encourage mass vaccinations.
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