Word: salud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Call it another cover-up. Love bites (hickeys) may bruise skin. But at the Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo, they apparently also bruise sensibilities. So much so that the Brawley, California, health company has banned hickeys from sight. Officials say they took the action after six months of complaints from patients and staff that too many employees -- sometimes four or five a day -- were coming in with telltale marks visible on their neck. Employees who refuse to disguise evidence of their passions will be sent home and docked...
...keep track of their blood sugar. Often they are so badly informed about their disease that they skrimp on the oral medication or insulin shots they need to keep blood glucose in the normal range. In the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, a large health-promotion project, A Su Salud, has begun to spread the word about diabetes on Spanish-language radio and television...