Matt Bivens, Tomdispatch.com. October 5, 2009. For all the public money we give rich people, we can cure millions around the world of horrifying diseases.
Meg White, BuzzFlash. September 8, 2009. Monsanto and the U.S. government are dealing with unanticipated hazards of the pesticide Roundup in the South American drug war.
Sarah Krupp, Divine Caroline. September 3, 2009. The real story behind every perfectly round patty and golden fry is something the fast food industry would prefer you not know.
Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. July 25, 2009. Drug researchers are trying to replicate marijuana's therapeutic effects, but without the "side effect" of getting people high.
Ryan Blitstein, Miller-McCune.com. July 11, 2009. The stress of living in a white-dominated society makes African Americans get sick and die younger than their white counterparts.
Stacey Folsom, AlterNet. June 24, 2009. McDonald's refuses to take responsibility for the skyrocketing rates of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Roger Dobson, The Independent. December 25, 2008. A good chuckle doesn't just cheer us up. Doctors are discovering that it can ease pain and even help fight disease.
Sheldon J. Segal, AlterNet. September 22, 2008. There is little incentive for drug companies to research treatments for rare diseases. But collaboration with nonprofits could make it happen.
Jamie D. Brooks, Meredith L. King, Center for American Progress. January 18, 2008. The media and medical community have grossly oversimplified links between genetics, race and disease.
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.
Laura Wright, OnEarth Magazine. August 9, 2007. Discoveries about how chemicals and environmental toxins interact with our DNA and make us susceptible to disease could revolutionize our concept of illness.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. August 7, 2007. The perennial temptation to blame disease on sin or at least some grave moral failing just took another hit.
