Navigating Health Care Can Often Leave Refugees Lost in Translation

Published January 21, 2014

Navigating Health Care Can Often Leave Refugees Lost in Translation
Therapist Julanne Bibro-Ruch works with Adu Sit, a Burmese refugee, at the Squirrel Hill Health Center. … Those services include everything from having interpreters in a slew of languages in the courts and schools and drug and alcohol treatment …
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Organizations collaborate on trying to prevent underage drinking
FLAGSTAFF, Arizona — The Sunnyside Neighborhood Association and the Williams Alliance against Drug and Alcohol Abuse are partnering with the Guidance Center to develop community-driven programs to stop teenagers from using alcohol. A five-year, $ 275 …
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Clinical trials offer hope
They had taken a drug called MPDL3280A that made them cancer free. The 16-week therapy is delivered through an IV for a couple of hours once every three weeks. Rathbun was so close to death from throat cancer that she had been advised to enroll in …
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