PRINTABLE PAGE Gap in Seniors’ Drug Coverage Exceeds Earlier Estimates Originally published by Reuters Health, February 27, 2002 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — The proportion of Medicare beneficiaries who had no prescription drug coverage in the fall of 1999 is…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Mom Got Girl Back Despite Allegations Records reveal reports of neglect; officers to begin sex-abuse inquiry By Steve McGonigleOriginally published in the Dallas Morning News, June 15, 2001 The 8-year-old Hutchins girl at the center of one of…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Inmates’ Coercion Makes Sex a Currency Originally published in The Beacon Journal, March 17, 2002 In a jail primer pamphlet put out by former Watergate conspirator turned prison minister Chuck Colson, a young, first-time inmate gets a whispered…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Little Being Done to Stop Elder Abuse: Experts By Maggie FoxOriginally published by Reuters, June 18, 2002 WASHINGTON (Reuters) — From the frail woman in a nursing home found with bruises on her face and hands to the…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Peer Sexual Abuse Dangerous for Teens (HealthScoutNews) By Janice Billingsley, HealthScoutNews ReporterOriginally published by HealthScoutNews, August 27, 2001 MONDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthScoutNews) — Headlines to the contrary, it’s not just adults who are sexually victimizing teens. They’re also…
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PRINTABLE PAGE War in Sierra Leone Loosens Its Grip on Child Soldiers By Norimitsu OnishiOriginally published in The New York Times, May 26, 2001 AKENI, Sierra Leone, May 25 — The children, 424 of them, began filling the stands in…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Screening for Abuse in Spanish-Speaking Women By Colleen T. Fogarty, MD, Judith Belle Brown, PhDOriginally published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice 15(2):101-111, 2002 Abstract and Introduction Abstract Background: Domestic violence is a major…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Duo Forced 12-year-old to Turn Tricks: DA By Kieran CrowleyOriginally published in The New York Post, June 9, 2001 Two men forced a 12-year-old girl to prostitute herself on a Queens street, an outraged Queens District Attorney Richard…
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PRINTABLE PAGE South African Province Goes It Alone on AIDS Therapy Originally published by Reuters, July 18, 2002 CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Reuters) — One of South Africa’s nine provinces has by-passed the national government’s policy to launch a pilot…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Anorexia, Bulimia Therapy Hampered by Managed Care Originally published by Reuters Health, June 8, 2001 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Changes in healthcare delivery have led to shorter hospital stays and higher readmission rates for patients with eating…