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Tags Bay View Health and Environmental Science Editor Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai

Tag: Bay View Health and Environmental Science Editor Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai

Clarion call: VIOLENCE is a public health emergency!

“Violence is now so pervasive it can no longer be usefully viewed as only a problem of desperate acts by individual offenders.” – C. Everett Koop, M.D., The Surgeon General’s Workshop on Violence and Public Health, 1985

Born too small … Born too soon

Many scientists are looking at the role caesarian sections and early induction of labor is having on the rising incidence of preterm births in our country. Recent evidence suggests that infant mortality in Black women is linked to a low incidence of breast feeding.