August 10th, 2010 by admin
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — UC Davis School of Medicine researchers will train Native American communities in Northern California to develop and implement culturally appropriate interventions to improve their health by decreasing obesity and type-2 diabetes, through a $1 million research grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. [...]
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July 20th, 2010 by admin
A domestic violence program funded by the Administration for Children and Families and the Indian Health Service has showed dramatic success at improving the health system’s response at IHS facilities across the United States, according to Building Domestic Violence Health Care Responses: A Promising Practices Report, published by the Family Violence Prevention Fund. The program, [...]
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July 7th, 2010 by admin
This is the story of a woman named Rene Caisse. For more than 50 years until her death in 1978 at the age of 90, she treated thousands of cancer patients, most of them written off by doctors as terminally ill, with her own secret formula. She called it Essiac – Caisse spelled backwards – [...]
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January 23rd, 2010 by admin
OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) – It’s easy to swoop past the fenced facility on tree-lined Clackamas River Road as the pavement bends and curves along the winding river. Advocates hope it will be harder to miss the import of what Cedar Bough does for Native American youths in Oregon, and beyond. Cedar Bough, a residential [...]
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December 12th, 2009 by admin
The Department of Justice recently released statistics revealing once again the disturbing level of violence against American Indian women. CNN reported on the dangerous trend noting that high ranking officials at DOJ have focused their attention on this obscene reality. DOJ’s release, however, is not the first time the US federal government has recognized the [...]
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December 12th, 2009 by admin
For years, Indian Health Services has been in disarray and the statistics resemble that of a developing or underdeveloped nation. The healthcare debate brings this issue front and center. The White House dutifully released an online video to discuss health care and Indian Health Services. The government official reiterates that there are no similarities between [...]
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