Saving Your Health When You’re Losing Your Home

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Studies show that many people faced with home loss and housing uncertainty can take a tremendous hit to their health. If you’re going through difficult times, and worried you too may lose your home, what can you do to try to buffer or reclaim your health?

Here are some tips for […]

Part 2: Gunpowder on the street

In tandem, both ambulance, and fire truck, red lights strobed across the narrow cave-like doorway to the Tom Waddell clinic. The images flashed in the dark, like red-tinted, stop-motion animation. Inside the narrow space the six of us from needle exchange creaked zombie-like to our feet from where we’d been bent over bodies. Two men […]

Looking for death on the streets. And finding it.

I went to needle exchange to hang out. You may be asking yourself what a soccer mom from the burbs is doing perched on a folding chair in the parking garage of 101 Grove on a dark November night, surrounded by syringes. I was there as a guest observer because I’m working on a series […]

Haiti storms, cholera and you: Time to thank your toilet

I have a new best friend. She’s cool and smooth and adaptable. Kind of like a Dragon-Tattooed-urbanite who can deal with any situation, from a tweaking guest at a rave, to the post-modern gut-angst of intellectuals. She’s slow to rile too – give her a nudge and all she does is gurgle at you.

She’s […]

What if you could call a Doctor anytime?

At the Health 2.0 conference I met and interviewed two people starting a new service called RingADoc. The interview is below and the service is just starting up in California.

What do you think? Ready to sign up and give a doctor a call? Share your take in the comments section. Are you a […]

More from Haiti

More from Haiti, arrival in Gonaives and two days of care, clinics and life.

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Passed a leprechaun-green field, full of donkeys with a handful of goats tiptoeing among them, Caribbean blue ocean all around 10 Oct

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We’re here! In 2008, 48,000 people in Gonaives lost their homes to 10 vertical ft of hurricane […]