hurricane katrina

(The Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc.) The disappearance of reliable health-care services in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina left many children with asthma no choice but to seek treatment in emergency rooms across town -- if they sought care at all.

Xavier University of Louisiana, Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans and the Children's Health Fund have teamed up to reverse that trend by bringing reliable health care directly to these children through community health centers and mobile clinics.

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) The Department of Psychiatry at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans has been given the 2010 Gold Achievement Award by the American Psychiatric Association for a program credited by the St.

Bernard Parish Public School System as key to reopening schools and recovery of the community after Hurricane Katrina.

(US Department of Homeland Security - Science and Technology) The levee failures during Hurricane Katrina are, of course, still fresh in the American mind.

Homeland Security's Wil Laska wants to make sure that if we cannot completely prevent levee breaches, we have a fast remedy for when it does happen.

Governors attending their national convention on Mississippi's Gulf Coast have seen signs of Hurricane Katrina recovery — glitzy casinos packed with tourists, new condominium towers rising along the beach, the major expansion of a bustling state port.

When Hurricane Katrina wrecked the little clinic here in the coastal backwaters of Alabama, Dr. Regina Benjamin laid out medical charts to dry in the post-storm sun and hopped in a pickup truck to check on her patients.

President Barack Obama turned to the Deep South for the next surgeon general, choosing a rural Alabama family physician who made headlines with fierce determination to rebuild her nonprofit medical clinic in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Washington, DC (PRESS RELEASE - June17, 2009) SCORE “Counselors to America ’s Small Business” announces that Linda Gray of Dallas , Texas , has joined the SCORE Ask an Expert Blog at www.score.org.

Linda will offer her expertise and advice on a variety of business topics, including management, finances and disaster recovery.

Washington, DC (PRESS RELEASE - June17, 2009) SCORE “Counselors to America ’s Small Business” announces that Linda Gray of Dallas , Texas , has joined the SCORE Ask an Expert Blog at www.score.org.

Linda will offer her expertise and advice on a variety of business topics, including management, finances and disaster recovery.

Many of you reading this probably have vivid memories of watching CNN or the Weather Channel on August 29, 2005.

You saw water rushing through a broken levee and up to the rooftops of homes.