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For nineteen years I took our daughter Annierose to Boston Children s Hospital for joint taps, fever spikes, bleeding ulcers, alarmingly high liver enzymes, MRSA, and staph infections. Why? Because she has juvenile arthritis.
Juvenile arthritis, or JA, is an umbrella term for the rheumatic and inflammatory diseases that affect nearly 300,000 kids and teens in the U.S., more than the total of juvenile diabetes and cystic fibrosis cases combined. Despite so many cases of JA, it s not talked about nearly as much as other conditions.
While JA is an autoimmune disease that can last a lifetime and has no cure, children who are diagnosed, like mine, can live happy, full, and extraordinary lives. Here s what parents need to know about juvenile arthritis.
Baystate Health-led group addresses inequities amid pandemic MassLive.com 2/19/2021
One of the many ways of improving health care outcomes is to address health inequities.
According to the American Medical Association, “marginalized and minoritized patients have and will suffer disproportionately during the COVID-19 crisis due to the inequities in society perpetuated by systemic practices.”
As the large first surge of the coronavirus in Greater Springfield was just beginning to ease in April and the inequitable impact on vulnerable groups had become clear, a work group gathered virtually to address the impact.
Comprised of leaders, experts and stakeholders from Baystate Health, Caring Health Center and the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts, the work group quickly determined their key activities would be:
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Black Images Book Bazaar was a destination in Dallas. It was a place where the community came to listen to well-known Black authors. It was a mainstay in the Wynnewood Village from 1977-2007.
It was the brainchild of Emma Rodgers. In the beginning, it wasn’t about a brick and mortar store, but rather, filling a need.
“We started it in 1977. It started as a mail-order business because I needed one. It was supposed to be my son’s 10
th birthday and I had to several book stores to find books from the Black experience,” Rodgers said. “I was just fit to be tied because I couldn’t find them. So, we started it as a mail-order, then it went to the flea market. We moved a few times and then we moved across the street to the largest building in 1992.”
The Northwest Indiana Department of Transportation shows one of its trucks being loaded up with salt in between routes. Provided
The harshest cold of the season is expected to hit the Chicago area this weekend, after another round of accumulating snowfall covers the ground, forecasters say.
The National Weather Service forecast low temperatures to fall into the single digits Friday night. Temperatures could fall below zero Saturday night.
High temperatures between 10 and 15 degrees were predicted Friday and Saturday, and Sunday s high temperature could rise only into the single digits, forecasters said.
That was predicted to arrive after the sudden, heavy snowfall, carried by heavy winds, fell across several Northwest Indiana communities Thursday.