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Nancy Sokoler Steiner

Nancy Sokoler Steiner

Healing trumps selling for new Kalsman Institute chief

Michele Prince had an epiphany while sitting at a conference table nine years ago. At the time she was an account manager at a prestigious Westside advertising agency with a health insurance company as a client.

Cervical cancer vaccine stirs hope and debate

According to the Centers for Disease Control, at least 50 percent of sexually active people contract a genital HPV infection. About 6.2 million new cases are diagnosed each year, the agency reports, and by age 50 at least 80 percent of women will be infected.

Do Day School Health Programs Make the Grade?

Twenty parents from the Emek Hebrew Academy in Valley Village have come on a chilly winter evening to hear Dr. Francine Kaufman, a national expert on diabetes and childhood obesity, talk about promoting children\’s health. Although the school has 455 families, Rabbi Sholom Strajcher, the school\’s dean, is not discouraged by the modest turnout.

Special Delivery – When Baby Brings More Than Expected

Women suffering from PPD often fail to receive help for a number of reasons. They might be ashamed of their feelings, or they simply might not know where to turn. And not all obstetricians and pediatricians are as attuned to the condition as Berger was.

School Risked Fiscal Peril for Its Students

Etz Jacob prides itself on accepting children who would not otherwise get a Jewish education. Rabbi Rubin Huttler of Congregation Etz Jacob founded the school in 1989 as a haven for new immigrants flooding into Los Angeles from Russia and Iran.

Substance Abuse a Senior Problem, Too

When Amy Kaplan heard about Betty (not her real name), a Jewish Family Service client in her early 70s who said she couldn\’t afford all of her medications, Kaplan suspected there was more to the story.

PASSOVER: You Say Charoses and I Say Charoset

I was so excited when a publishing house in New York accepted my children\’s book for publication. Geared to preschoolers, it\’s a short piece that recounts the steps of the Passover seder in simple, upbeat verse. What I didn\’t realize was that the work would need to be translated.

Center’s Studies Aid Care for Frail Elderly

Weight-loss prevention is one of the principal areas of investigation at the Borun Center, a joint venture between JHA and UCLA\’s David Geffen School of Medicine. Housed on the JHA campus in Reseda, the center was established in 1989 to identify and test nonmedical measures that could improve daily care and quality of life for nursing home residents.

Robot Dances Off With Award

Don\’t have time to shlep to a museum? Too tired to remember if the free museum day is the first or second Tuesday of the month? Want to conquer a large, overwhelming exhibit in small, 15-minute intervals? Then bring the museum to your desktop and browse at your own pace.

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