Urban Studies

Cooking up the recipe to lower AK Native cancer death rates (KTVA Anchorage)

29 Aug 2008

Alaska Natives have some of the country's highest cancer death rates. The reason, scientific health studies explain, has a lot to do with westernized, high fat, processed food diets replacing traditional, subsistence diets.

Physical And Sexual Abuse Linked To Asthma In Puerto Rican Kids (Science Daily)

29 Aug 2008

Children who are physically or sexually abused are more than twice as likely to have asthma as their peers, according to a recent study of urban children in Puerto Rico. In fact, physical and sexual abuse was second only to maternal asthma in all the risk factors tested, including paternal asthma and indicators of socioeconomic status.

Many in New Orleans fear nightmare may return full force (Houston Chronicle)

29 Aug 2008

Hurricane Katrina's ghosts are being roused on today's third anniversary of its landfall by the prospect that another storm churning at sea could again transform this city into an urban swamp.