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Friday, May 24th, 2013

Key to infant health: Reducing stress on mom before pregnancy | Center for Health Reporting

Center for Health Reporting, Analysis, John Gonzales, Posted: January 2, 2013 A consistent theme has emerged from the federal Healthy Start program since its founding in 1991: Infant mortality is not tackled during the 9 months of a woman’s pregnancy alone. “If we really want to improve pregnancy outcomes and reduce infant mortality in this

Friday, May 24th, 2013

San Francisco struggles to match California’s gains on black infant mortality | Center for Health Reporting

Center for Health Reporting, Analysis, John Gonzales, Posted: January 2, 2013 After an agonizingly long fight to reduce the high death rate of African American newborns, California is beginning to make progress against a century-long racial disparity....

Friday, May 24th, 2013

On the streets of Oakland, new hope for black infants | Center for Health Reporting

Center for Health Reporting, Analysis, John Gonzales, Posted: January 2, 2013 In the roughest neighborhoods of Oakland, Sandra Tramiel carries a baby scale in her knapsack as she undertakes a profound mission: saving Alameda County’s black children from...

Friday, May 24th, 2013

Black infant mortality: An international perspective | Center for Health Reporting

Center for Health Reporting, Analysis, John Gonzales, Posted: May 7, 2013 In December, I wrote a series of articles with the San Francisco Chronicle that amounted to a tale of two counties in the fight against African...

Friday, May 24th, 2013

Bay Area Man On a Mission to Supply North Korea With Wheelchairs

New America Media, News Feature, Peter Schurmann and Aruna Lee, Posted: Apr 18, 2013 Despite a mountain of international sanctions and grinding poverty, North Korea’s leaders have proven adept at procuring everything from the latest in digital...