Rick Weiss, Science Progress. October 10, 2008. The Wall Street bailout cost $700 billion. The entire National Institutes of Health budget is less than $30 billion -- and sinking.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. September 18, 2008. In six years, Abbott Laboratories' Humira has gone from wonder drug to wonder-how-it-got-approved drug.
Stan Cox, AlterNet. September 5, 2008. As our consumer goods travel thousands of miles by boat, train and truck, they're leaving a trail of soot and cancer in their wake.
Peter Navarro, Asia Times. July 15, 2008. It's tough to tout "green games" when cancers related to water pollution are among the leading causes of death in China's countryside.
Davin Hutchins, American News Project. May 30, 2008. Presidential candidates are pushing "clean coal" but many suspect it is causing a rare form of blood cancer.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. May 13, 2008. A study linking HPV to oral cancer in men puts anti-choice advocates between a rock and a hard place.
Geoffrey Lean, Independent UK. March 30, 2008. Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumors and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation.
Simon Usborne, The Independent UK. March 19, 2008. Artist John D Edwards's latest paintings tell a harrowing story: how he fought his way back from penis cancer.
Kim Ridley, Ode. March 14, 2008. Scientists are finding that spices can ease inflammation, kill bacteria and viruses, and even cause cancer cells to self-destruct.
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. March 10, 2008. Headlines suggested a study proved pot is a greater cancer risk than tobacco -- but the media didn't even wait for the report to be released.
Paul Armentano, NORML AlterNet: Health and Wellness. March 6, 2008. So for the second month in a row we have researchers from New Zealand telling us that pot smoking has little-to-no association with cancer.
Maggie Mahar -- BAD, DON'T USE, AlterNet. February 12, 2008. The public has been denied important information on the link between pollution and health problems including lung, colon and breast cancer.
Christine Wenc, AlterNet. December 6, 2007. In her new book, Devra Davis exposes scientists and government officials who have worked to downplay or dismiss preventable causes of cancer.
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. November 20, 2007. Matt Corley: The health plans of Giuliani, McCain and Thompson would likely exclude cancer survivors such as themselves.
Michelle Chen, In These Times. November 19, 2007. Industry special interests are burying information on cancer-causing chemicals and, according to watchdog groups, the government is helping them do it.
David Usborne, The Independent UK. November 13, 2007. After years of anti-obesity public health advice, a major new study causes an outcry by concluding that the moderately overweight live longer.
