Back on the front burner! The Obama White House has taken the “bull by the horns” in an effort to move the momentum of national health reform forward in the midst of stagnation, charges of political corruption and back room deal making and a shifting tide of public opinion regarding the need for massive overhaul of our nation’s health care system.
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Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
antitrust exemption,
Attorney General Jerry Brown,
economist Ben Stein,
increase insurance premium rates by 39 percent,
Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner,
Langston Hughes,
national health reform,
Obama administration,
Obama White House,
private health care industry,
uncompensated care for the uninsured,
WellPoint Inc.
Tuesday, Jan. 5, at 4 p.m. in City Hall Room 416 is the FINAL hearing on the Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard EIR, a very callous, negligent and dangerous document that identifies numerous life threatening and potentially disastrous impacts to human health and the environment – most dangerous of all the potential construction activities at a federal Superfund site listed as one of the most toxic properties in the nation!
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49ers stadium,
AB 81X3 (Hall),
Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
air contaminants,
American peregrine falcons,
asbestos,
Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan EIR,
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA),
California Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg,
Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Phase II Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR),
cumulative impacts,
Draft Final Historical Radiological Assessment,
early (dirty) transfer,
economic benefits,
eminent domain,
endangered species,
environmental activists,
Environmental Impact Report (EIR),
environmental protection law,
environmental review,
flood hazard zone,
hazardous air emissions,
hazardous materials study,
human and ecological exposure risk,
Hunters Point Shipyard FEIR,
lead,
life threatening fire and medical emergency,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
Michael Cohen,
mitigation measures,
NASA satellite data,
Naval Radiological Defense Laboratories,
PCBs,
pesticides,
potential adverse impacts on children,
POWER,
radiation contaminated soils,
sea level rise,
seismically unstable earthquake liquefaction zone,
Sue Hestor,
Superfund sites,
Tiffany Bohee,
toxic metals
The known health disparities that contribute to premature death from breast cancer in African American women have galvanized righteous opposition to the USPSTF mammogram recommendations. In the past, these recommendations have influenced decision making by physician groups and the health care insurers who pay for preventative studies.
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abnormal mammogram,
Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
Aileen Clarke Hernandez,
Alicia Pierce,
benign cysts,
Black physicians,
breast cancer,
breast cancer survivors,
breast ultrasound,
diagnostic mammogram,
Eleanor Spikes,
Gloria Davis,
health care rationing,
health disparities,
mammogram,
mammography,
Mehmet Oz M.D.,
Michael Roizen M.D.,
racism in science,
United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF)
The 2009 U.S. Conference on AIDS opened in San Francisco at the Hilton Hotel on Oct. 29. The three-day event drew leadership from around the country, highlighting the “changing tide” of leadership in the forefront of the battle against HIV. The lobby of the downtown Hilton was a sea of energy and vibrant color as African American, Latino, Asian Pacific Islander and women policymakers mingled in excited conversation.
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Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
AIDS epidemic,
Barack Obama,
Frank J. Oldham Jr.,
HIV,
Lisa Capaldini M.D.,
Minority AIDS Initiative,
National Association of People with AIDS,
national testing campaign,
Phill Wilson,
Sister to Sister,
The Black AIDS Institute,
U.S. Conference on AIDS
The outbreak of swine flu worldwide captured immediate attention because it is a new strain – a combination of a virus found in pigs that changed enough to cause infections in farm workers in Mexico with other known flu viruses including influenza A. Billions of people on earth have no “herd immunity” to a new virus.
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Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
antigens,
bird flu,
flu epidemic,
host defenses,
immune system,
influenza,
influenza pandemics,
pandemic,
Phase 5,
public health officials,
seasonal flu,
superbug,
World Health Organization (WHO),
worldwide swine flu epidemic
In an email to the San Francisco Bay View, Laurence Pelosi verified that he was a Lennar senior executive in March of 2004 at the time San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, his cousin for whom he had served as mayoral campaign treasurer, had signed the Hunters Point Shipyard Conveyance Agreement at the behest of Laurence’s Aunt Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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A. Philip Randolph Institute,
Administrative Assistant Ceola Richardson,
Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
Amy D. Brownell P.E.,
arsenic and lead testing,
Article 31 of the Health Code,
Asbestos Dust Mitigation Plan,
Attorney Angela Alioto,
Barbara Newsom Callan,
Bayview Opera House,
civil criminal and environmental regulatory violations,
Community Liaison Clementine Clarke,
corporate polluter,
Darius Anderson,
dirty transfer,
Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List,
environmental racism,
ethical conflicts of interest,
ethics laws,
federal Superfund Act,
Gavin Newsom,
governmental integrity,
Historical Radiological Assessment,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Hunters Point Shipyard Parcel A,
Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board,
James Bryant,
Kofi Bonner,
Laurence Pelosi,
Lennar,
Lennar's $5 million Proposition G campaign,
Mayor Willie Brown,
Michael Cohen,
Morgan Stanley,
Nancy Pelosi,
Naval Radiological Defense Laboratories,
Navy Secretary Gordon England,
Paul Pelosi,
Peter Byrne,
Planning Commission President Shelley Bell,
Project Manager Gary McIntyre,
Proposition P,
racial discrimination,
Rajiv Bhatia M.D.,
Rep. John Murtha,
Richard Blum,
Ronald Pelosi,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu,
San Francisco Division of the FBI,
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
San Francisco Redevelopment Commission,
Sen. Barbara Boxer,
Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
SPUR (San Francisco Planning and Urban Research),
Supervisor Aaron Peskin,
Supervisor Sophie Maxwell,
toxic dust,
Treasure Island Community Development
“Biomonitoring is the next logical, critical step for us to take in addressing threats to public health.” – Sen. Deborah Ortiz, D-Sacramento, author of the California Biomonitoring Program, SB689
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acute bronchitis,
Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
arrhythmia,
asthma,
Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
Bayview Hunters Point,
biomonitoring,
birth defects,
breast cancer,
California Body Burden Campaign,
congestive heart failure,
Dr. Kevin Grumbach,
Dr. Peter Palmer,
Dr. Tomas Aragon,
emphysema,
fine motor dysfunction,
Healthy California Biomonitoring Program,
heart attacks,
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard,
hyperactivity,
infant mortality,
lead encephalopathy,
lead toxicity,
lead-based paint,
learning disorders,
Lennar,
Leuren Moret,
lung disease,
Mitchell Katz,
particulates,
premature death,
San Francisco Department of Public Health,
Sen. Deborah Ortiz,
Tooth Fairy study,
toxicological studies of childhood populations,
toxicological testing,
urinary benzene metabolites
The California Universal Health Care Organizing Project wants President Obama to support congressional legislation authored by Rep. John Conyers that will stop the private health care insurance industry from denying claims, neglecting the sick and wasting 31 cents of every health care dollar.
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Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
California Universal Healthcare Act (SB840),
Don Bechler,
Dr. Cecil B. Wilson,
Fran Devlin,
Gov. Schwarzenegger,
H.R. 676,
health disparities,
Ian McLean,
Medicare,
National Coordinator of Health Information Technology,
National Health Insurance Exchange,
President Obama,
Rep. John Conyers,
Rory Michaelis,
Sen. Sheila Kuehl,
Single Payer Now,
stimulus bill,
United States National Health Insurance Act,
universal health care
The way we grow, distribute and prepare food should celebrate our various cultures and our shared humanity, providing not only sustenance, but justice, beauty and pleasure.
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"Quality of Life",
aerobic exercise,
Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
antibiotics,
anxiety,
belly fat,
Black Farmers,
blood glucose,
blood pressure,
blood sugar,
breastfeeding,
cholesterol,
Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture,
depression,
diabetes,
disease,
exercise,
Fair Trade,
fast food,
fitness,
fresh fruits and vegetables,
health,
hypertension,
infant mortality,
maternal nutrition,
meditation,
New Year's resolutions,
nutrition,
obesity,
pesticides,
recreation,
school lunch,
stress,
wellness,
whole grains
Lennar’s LEN stocks had sunk to $3.60 per share by mid-November despite restructuring and partnership with the financial firm CB Richard Ellis, headed by Richard Blum, a UC regent and husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a principle sponsor of the Lennar-funded Proposition G.
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"polluter pays" regulations,
Ahimsa Porter Sumchai M.D.,
asbestos,
BAAQMD Asbestos Dust Mitigation Plan,
Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
Bayview Hunters Point,
biomonitoring,
California Body Burden Campaign,
CH2M Hill,
Community Choice Aggregation,
dirty transfer,
Dr. Kevin Grumbach,
Dr. Tomas Aragon,
environmental justice,
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard,
John Rizzo,
Kofi Bonner,
Lennar,
Lennar-BVHP,
Mirant power plant,
Proposition F,
Proposition G,
Richard Blum,
San Francisco 49ers stadium,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
San Francisco Department of Public Health,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
Sierra Club,
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi,
The Healthy California Biomonitoring Program
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