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		<title>Mandatory sick leave? Who pays?</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2011/09/mandatory-sick-leave-who-pays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 38 | 9/17-9/23]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 38 | September 17 - September 23]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Tiffany Ran Northwest Asian Weekly There were those who simply couldn’t miss a paycheck. So when they heard about the H1N1 virus, when they contracted it, and when their family members contracted it, they went to work, as usual. “Stay home when you’re sick,” states a public health message, which goes unheeded by four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there plasticizer in your food? What is the FDA hiding?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 26 | June 25 - July 1]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Ngoc Nguyen, Vivian Po, Summer Chiang New America Media More than three weeks after the Taiwanese government began a massive recall of tainted food products, the United States government has provided no guidance to retailers as to which products are safe to sell. By contrast, the Philippines, Canada, and New Zealand have published the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is smoking an epidemic for Asians?</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2011/01/is-smoking-an-epidemic-for-asians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 4 | 1/22-1/28]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tong K. began to smoke when he secretly took a smoking pipe from his parents in China at the age of eight.]]></description>
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		<title>Medical refugees find themselves shut out from the care they need</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/12/medical-refugees-find-themselves-shut-out-from-the-care-they-need/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 51 | 12/18-12/24]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 51 | December 18 - December 24]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Serah Alexander lives under the crushing weight of medical bills. The mother of three was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer that has spread to her bones.]]></description>
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		<title>API innovators celebrated for their contributions to healthcare</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/10/api-innovators-celebrated-for-their-contributions-to-healthcare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 42 | 10/16-10/22]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrea Nakano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Enersen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 42 | October 16 - October 22]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Healthcare professionals who have championed clinics for the poor and paved new territory in medical fields made up the honorees for Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation’s 13th ]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnic elders split on Washington state assisted suicide law</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/10/ethnic-elders-split-on-washington-state-assisted-suicide-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 41 | 10/9-10/15]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When nearly six in 10 voters in Washington state approved Initiative 1000, the 2008 Death with Dignity Act, Seattle resident Tam Hue (last name not given), 73,]]></description>
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		<title>Anthony Chen brings a doctor’s care and sensitivity to health department</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/09/anthony%c2%a0chen-brings-a-doctor%e2%80%99s-care-and-sensitivity-to-health-department/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 40 | 10/2-10/8]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Regardless of how good of a doctor you are, a lot of other elements are involved in patient care,” said Dr. Anthony Chen.]]></description>
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		<title>The Health Issue</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/09/the-health-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 38 | 9/18-9/24]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Community clinic providing interpretation for API community named Pioneer in Healthcare
Kin On demonstrates respect for both elders and families
Nikkei Concerns: a gathering place with buzz for Seattle’s Japanese American elders ]]></description>
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		<title>In the Mien community, Eastern and Western medicine go hand-in-hand</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/09/in-the-mien-community-eastern-and-western-medicine-go-hand-in-hand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don’t have health insurance, Farm Sirisisangpha can tell you where to apply. If you don’t feel well, she can tell you which doctor to go to. And if you don’t feel any]]></description>
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		<title>Asians overcome cultural stigmas in order to treat Alzheimer’s</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/09/asians-overcome-cultural-stigmas-in-order-to-treat-alzheimer%e2%80%99s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In Asian culture, nobody will disagree with you if you want to take care of the elders,” said Sam Wan, chief executive officer and a founding member of Kin On, ]]></description>
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		<title>What do Asians need to know about hepatitis B?</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/09/what-do-asians-need-to-know-about-hepatitis-b/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research shows that as many as 2 million people in the country and 30,000 people in Washington state are living with chronic hepatitis B.]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Tourism: the next reform in health care?</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/06/medical-tourism-the-next-reform-in-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 29 No 23 | 6/5-6/11]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shoreline retirees Yoshi and Naomi Minegishi, ages 70 and 61, returned this spring from a vacation in Asia and brought back a new interest]]></description>
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		<title>Father and son create endowment in memory of wife and mother</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/05/father-and-son-create-endowment-in-memory-of-wife-and-mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 18:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clyde Shields, a uremia patient, was saved 50 years ago by the first successful dialysis treatment at the University of Washington Hospital (now the UW Medical Center).]]></description>
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		<title>Grouping all Asians together could be bad for their health</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 18:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asian Americans as a whole are half as likely as non-Hispanic whites to die from heart disease. However, Native Hawaiians are 40 percent more likely to suffer from heart disease than whites.]]></description>
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		<title>What Asian Pacific Americans need to know about diabetes</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/04/what-asian-pacific-americans-need-to-know-about-diabetes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Julie Cheng began ice skating at age 7.

After skating competitively for three years, she took a yearlong break from the sport at age 10. She wasn’t sidelined due to injury. She was out for health reasons.]]></description>
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		<title>Asian American women strive toward feeling happy with life and body</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/02/asian-american-women-strive-toward-feeling-happy-with-life-and-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Tabafunda NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Body image — or the perception of how one’s body looks — gets reassessed every January. In 2010, losing weight returns as one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions. Forty-three percent of Asian American women said they considered themselves overweight. This statistic is based on a 1997 survey, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cindy Chen — a voice for counseling in the Asian community</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2010/01/cindy-chen-%e2%80%94-a-voice-for-counseling-in-the-asian-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In her cozy office in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, Dr. Cindy Chen has shared countless conversations with clients. She is willing to talk about many issues in life — interpersonal relationships, gambling addiction, low self-esteem — as long as clients are willing to open up. ]]></description>
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		<title>The top 5 stories you’ve heard way too much about and 5 stories that went under the radar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fame, fortune, and scandal were the driving forces behind the endless news coverage of Jackson. Readership of Jackson news shot up when a Los Angeles coroner ruled the singer’s death a homicide after lethal levels of the anesthetic propofol, combined with two other sedatives, were found in his system.]]></description>
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		<title>Sun-sational Vitamin D: D-fense against disease</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2009/07/sun-sational-vitamin-d-d-fense-against-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 28 No 32 | 8/1 - 8/7]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 130 million Americans suffer from at least one chronic disease.  We spend $1.5 trillion dollars a year to manage chronic diseases, but it still causes 70 percent of all deaths in the United States.]]></description>
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		<title>Local nonprofits await stimulus funds</title>
		<link>http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2009/04/local-nonprofits-await-stimulus-funds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol 28 No 15 | 4/4 - 4/10]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With President Barack Obama’s recent economic stimulus package on its way to the States, many local agencies are eagerly awaiting its]]></description>
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