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Free Healthcare Comes to Appalachia on Wheels
Each year the Remote Area Medical clinic provides free healthcare services to residents of Appalachia's coal mining counties, but people from as far as Indiana travel there for care. This region of the Eastern US is one of the nation's most impoverished, and this clinic-on-wheels wants to help the under- and uninsured.
Some of the 2,500 patients spend the night in their cars, hoping to see one of the 1,400 volunteer medical personnel.
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Front Page: Missing Gov. Was in Argentina, Not Appalachia
- South Carolina's Gov. Mark Sanford, who has been missing since last Thursday, has returned from Argentina. While his wife said she had no idea where he was, his staff said he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail, which appears to have been false.
What's Cooking at Slashfood
We love Slashfood so much that every Thursday we round up their most delicious stories. Here are this week's finds:
- Korean bibimbap makes a versatile, well-rounded dinner for one.
- Appalachia's red hot dogs are the subject of a new food documentary.
- Good news: Turns out drinking too much beer doesn't actually cause beer bellies.
- The Skinny Chef learns how to bring out the best in a tomatillo.
- Embrace the nostalgia of bread-and-butter pickles sans the high-fructose corn syrup.
- A Boston Marathoner becomes the face of breakfast haven Waffle House.
What's Cooking at Slashfood
We love Slashfood so much that every Thursday we round up their most delicious stories. Here are this week's finds:
- A number of household objects come in handy when shaping uniform burger patties.
- Is it ever OK for servers to sit down with diners?
- Russ & Daughters has preserved the tradition of serving New Catch Holland herring.
- Foodie festivalgoers are hardly roughing it at this year's Bonnaroo festival.
- Meet greasys, a variety of beans prized in Southern Appalachia.
Viral encephalitis
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- Introduction
- Causes
- Symptoms
- Risk Factors
- Prognosis
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Vaccinations
- Prevention
- Resources
- References
Mommy Bloggers Get Pampered
Aside from incredibly cute commercials of sleeping babies or offering my kids amazing leak protection, I've never given much thought to Pampers. When Proctor & Gamble invited me to be their guest at a mommy bloggers event in Cincinnati, I kept an open mind, but knew the two days could end up being a corporate panel of suits trying to push us to peddle their wares on our websites. Curious to see why they were summoning women of the web and which, if any, environmental practices the company had adopted, I boarded the plane.
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Expert: Worms and Parasites Can Perpetuate US Poverty
Disease caused by worms and parasites, which negatively impact child development and contribute to heart disease, disproportionately infect America's poor.
Dr. Peter Hotez, who works for George Washington University and the Sabin Vaccine Institute, studied nine parasitic diseases affecting 10 million Americans.
And the winner Is...
...Kmariem! Congratulations to Kmariem, who has won a a set of Yee-Haw Industries' "Flowering Trees of Appalachia" series, which includes hand-carved wood cuts of Dogwood, Magnolia, Paw Paw and Redbud trees. These can be used as cards, but I'd consider framing this series and hanging them together.
CasaSugar Giveaway: Yee-Haw's Art Prints
Earlier today, I told you about the beautiful letterpress art from Yee-Haw Industries. And now I'm giving you a chance to win some of their creations!
Yee-Haw has given me a set of their "Flowering Trees of Appalachia" series, which includes hand-carved wood cuts of Dogwood, Magnolia, Paw Paw and Redbud trees.
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