Rina Risper

When you or a family member needs medical attention, the goal should always be to get the very best you can find. Ideally that means searching out a physician or facility that specializes in the condition you’re dealing with. But where to begin?

 

Some start with references from a family doctor, or recommendations from friends or co-workers. These are helpful but often very limited. Others head to the Internet for information, which can result in the opposite problem-way too much information. It can be overwhelming to try and navigate your way through dozens, or even hundreds, of medical websites.

 

What you need is a resource that compares hospitals, physicians and other medical service providers, objectively assessing their effectiveness and reliability. And that’s just what you get from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Department.

By Diane Wai

 

Born in Ennis, Texas—a mid-sized town about 40 miles south of Dallas—Diedrea Lewis, 47, was the tenth child of a large African American family headed by her father, a U.S. veteran and a custodian, and her mother, a homemaker. Diedrea describes her family as “chronically poor,” and yet “it was always instilled in me to go to college. That was the equalizer.” 

Continues push for legislative action on bill

 

LANSING, MI – State Representative Thomas Stallworth (D-Detroit) today renewed his calls for the Legislature to pass his bill, House Bill 5145 which makes a murder committed by discharging a weapon into an occupied home, or a drive-by shooting, carry a first degree murder charge after 9-month-old Delric Miller, IV was struck and killed while sleeping on a couch in his Detroit home

By Robert Pagliarini,
Tribune Media Services

 

In a divorce, a woman’s life is turned upside down — nearly everything about her existence changes. But for the man, sometimes the most he has to change is his phone number and address. Women who had left jobs to raise families are at a significant disadvantage and find it difficult as they try to re-enter the workforce they left years earlier. I don’t have marriage advice, but if you do a few simple things in the other eight hours, you can survive a divorce and get back on your feet as quickly as possible.