Abby Christopher, AlterNet. December 4, 2008. More radiologists are shying away from breast imaging, creating longer waits that may be leading women to put off or forgo screenings.
Kaytee Riek, RH Reality Check. December 1, 2008. Obama promises to leave behind ideology-driven debates over how to spend money, and instead put common sense and science first.
Susan Blumenthal, M.D., Melissa Shive, Huffington Post AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 1, 2008. We must put an end to the discrimination that people living with HIV/AIDS experience every day.
Barbara Hesselgrave, Miller-McCune.com. November 27, 2008. The incidence of type 2 diabetes has almost doubled in the last decade. And Hispanics are disproportionately affected.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. November 27, 2008. Americans are bombarded with messages that death and danger are just around the corner. Reality is usually much different.
David Sirota, Campaign for America's Future. November 25, 2008. America is a decidedly center-left nation, especially on the issue of health care. Obama now has a budget imperative to reform it immediately.
Roger Dobson, The Independent UK. November 14, 2008. We all know a good cry helps to soothe our minds. Now doctors are discovering that tears may help to heal our bodies, too.
Julia Eisman, Stand Up for Health Care AlterNet: Health and Wellness. November 10, 2008. "With the Obama victory, the question is no longer whether we'll pursue comprehensive healthcare reform, but when and in what form."
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. November 10, 2008. If health care reform is done in a way that contains costs and lifts quality, it will take time and serious seed money.
Bernard Lo, M.D., Science Progress. November 10, 2008. The president and the nation need expert, thoughtful, balanced advice on difficult bioethical issues.
Ella Hushagen, Stand Up for Health Care AlterNet: Health and Wellness. November 3, 2008. A recent study shows that treating health insurance like an item on eBay would reduce costs for the healthy and raise them for everyone else.
Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future. October 31, 2008. Giving Americans universal access to health care will undermine some of the deepest and most persistent myths of the conservative worldview.
