News tagged with food stamp
Ban on food stamps leads to hunger, HIV risk among former drug felons
Convicted drug offenders who are denied government food benefits upon release from prison are at greater risk of engaging in dangerous, sexual risk behaviors in order to obtain food, Yale researchers have ...
HIV & AIDS
Mar 26, 2013 |
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Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program use grows in 2011
In 2011, 13 percent of all American households relied on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—the program formerly known as food stamps – with nearly 6.2 million more American households using the program ...
Health
Jan 15, 2013 |
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Increased medical and social support needed to reduce black infant mortality
(Medical Xpress)—The mortality rate for black and white infants in Dane County was just about equal from 2004 until 2007. However, black infant deaths rose from 2008 to 2010 while the mortality rate for white babies remained ...
Health
Jan 02, 2013 |
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Women in less affluent areas of Chicago less likely to reside near mammography facility
Women in socioeconomically disadvantaged and less affluent areas of Chicago were less likely to live near a mammography facility with various aspects of care compared with women in less socioeconomically disadvantaged and ...
Cancer
Oct 29, 2012 |
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Food stamp customers buy more at farmers' markets when point-of-sale system is available
Record numbers of Americans are receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, as food stamps are now known, and many SNAP participants live in neighborhoods with little or no access ...
Health
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Official: Doctor had recruiters in Medicare scheme
(AP) -- Years after Jacques Roy started filing paperwork that would have made his practice the busiest Medicare provider in the U.S., authorities say they've found most of his work was a lie.
Health
Feb 29, 2012 |
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7 accused of $375M Medicare, Medicaid fraud
(AP) -- Years after Jacques Roy started filing paperwork that would have made his practice the busiest Medicare provider in the U.S., authorities say they've found most of his work was a lie.
Health
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Healthy foods missing from stores in low-income black neighborhoods, study finds
Most convenience stores have a wide variety of chips, colorful candies and bottles of sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages. While shoppers can buy calorie-heavy foods wrapped in pretty packages in these locations, what they ...
Health
Feb 23, 2012 |
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BMC pediatricians find increase in SNAP benefits associated with healthier children
Pediatric researchers from Boston Medical Center (BMC), in partnership with Children's HealthWatch investigators in Boston, Minneapolis, Little Rock, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, have found that higher benefit amounts in ...
Health
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Feds oppose ban on food stamps for sodas in NYC
(AP) -- A plan by New York City to combat obesity by restricting the purchase of sugary drinks with foods stamps would be too large and complex, federal officials said Friday.
Health
Aug 20, 2011 |
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Eat your fruits and vegetables! Californians seem to be listening
According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Healthy People 2010 objectives, adequate fruit and vegetable consumption is a national public health priority for disease prevention and maintenance ...
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Jun 15, 2011 |
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