At some point during the year, up to a third of the global population experience…
Nicole BarcegaMay 28, 2018
Over the past few years, several states, including Oregon, California, Washington, and New Jersey, have…
Nicole BarcegaMarch 17, 2018
Food insecurity affects many factors that contribute to the status of someone’s health, and people…
Nicole BarcegaMarch 7, 2018
Federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) expired on September 30th, and there…
Nicole BarcegaJanuary 5, 2018
Body brokers, also known as non-transplant tissue banks, serve as middle men between donors and…
Nicole BarcegaJanuary 4, 2018
The opioid crisis was recently declared a national emergency by President Donald Trump, following a…
Nicole BarcegaOctober 28, 2017
For years, healthcare costs have been a hot topic in the United States. As an…
Nicole BarcegaSeptember 26, 2017
On November 8th, 2016, four cities successfully voted to implement soda taxes: Boulder, Colorado and…
Nicole BarcegaJuly 6, 2017
Many who exercise outdoors prefer to do so for the fresh air, but in areas…
Nicole BarcegaJanuary 29, 2016
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria continues to be a growing concern because resistance to antibiotics…
Nicole BarcegaDecember 6, 2015
In 2014, the Obama administration announced the first five zones of the Promise Zone Initiative:…
Nicole BarcegaNovember 29, 2015
A group of the leading cancer experts in the US have targeted the high cost of cancer…
Nicole BarcegaNovember 23, 2015
A recent study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health produced evidence that it…
Nicole BarcegaOctober 27, 2015
In recent decades, California has made efforts to reduce emissions succeeding in partial smog reduction. Even the…
Nicole BarcegaOctober 18, 2015
E-cigarettes have gotten more and more popular in the past few years, especially as a…
Nicole BarcegaAugust 12, 2015
On June 30, 2015, Bill SB277, which limits people's ability to opt out of vaccines,…
Nicole BarcegaAugust 8, 2015
Some people grow up or live in the same neighborhoods for decades, greeting the same…
Nicole BarcegaJuly 11, 2015
The results of a study released in the Collaborating for Community Health issue of Health…
Nicole BarcegaMarch 29, 2015
Twenty five years ago, AquaBounty, a biotechnology company aiming to improve aquaculture productivity and sustainability, created…
Nicole BarcegaMarch 29, 2015
