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Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "health"

Why It Can Take a Year to Get a Mammogram in the U.S.

Why It Can Take a Year to Get a Mammogram in the U.S.

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.

Obama's Health Care Reform Plan Is Based on the Clintons' Failed 1990s Model

Obama's Health Care Reform Plan Is Based on the Clintons' Failed 1990s Model

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. December 4, 2008.
Look only to the Detroit automakers' current economic straits to understand why.

Obama's Plan to End the HIV/AIDS Crisis

Obama's Plan to End the HIV/AIDS Crisis

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.

World AIDS Day: It Is Time to Stop 'Aidsism'

World AIDS Day: It Is Time to Stop 'Aidsism'

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.

Weekly Pulse: What Obama's Cabinet Picks Will Mean for Our Health

Weekly Pulse: What Obama's Cabinet Picks Will Mean for Our Health

Lindsay Beyerstein, The Media Consortium. November 28, 2008.
Your weekly guide to the progressive media's best reporting on health and health care.

Disturbing Diabetes Trends

Disturbing Diabetes Trends

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.

Worried Sick: How Vulnerable Are You Really to Heart Attack, Stroke or Breast Cancer?

Worried Sick: How Vulnerable Are You Really to Heart Attack, Stroke or Breast Cancer?

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.

Work: The Key to Anti-Aging?

Work: The Key to Anti-Aging?

Jeremy Laurance, Independent UK. November 26, 2008.
Relaxation is important, but retirement may well be overrated.

Health Care Game-Changer Underway?

Health Care Game-Changer Underway?

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.

Cigarette Consumption Down 28 Percent in 10 Years

Cigarette Consumption Down 28 Percent in 10 Years

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. November 25, 2008.
It's hard to believe that as recently as 2000, people could smoke on planes.

Would Passing Universal Health Care Kill the GOP?

Would Passing Universal Health Care Kill the GOP?

Nicholas Graham, AlterNet: PEEK. November 24, 2008.
Signs point to yes.

Why the Economic Crisis Shouldn't Mean Putting Off Health Care

Why the Economic Crisis Shouldn't Mean Putting Off Health Care

Monica Sanchez, Campaign for America's Future. November 24, 2008.
We can't afford not to tackle our health care crisis.

Stem Cell Research Heads for a Renaissance

Stem Cell Research Heads for a Renaissance

Rick Weiss, Science Progress. November 24, 2008.
New stem cell therapies may be a step closer to being tested in humans.

Meditation May Protect Your Brain

Meditation May Protect Your Brain

Michael Haederle, Miller-McCune.com. November 22, 2008.
Research is confirming the medicinal effects that advocates have long claimed for meditation.

This Week in Health

This Week in Health

Lindsay Beyerstein, The Media Consortium. November 21, 2008.
A roundup of this week's best independent, progressive reporting on health.

How Crying Can Make You Healthier

How Crying Can Make You Healthier

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.

Poised for Health Care Reform

Poised for Health Care Reform

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."

Where Should Health Care Rank on Obama's List of Priorities?

Where Should Health Care Rank on Obama's List of Priorities?

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.

Bioethics: Advice for the Next President

Bioethics: Advice for the Next President

Bernard Lo, M.D., Science Progress. November 10, 2008.
The president and the nation need expert, thoughtful, balanced advice on difficult bioethical issues.

Michael Pollan: Eating Is a Political Act

Michael Pollan: Eating Is a Political Act

Mark Eisen, The Progressive. November 8, 2008.
Michael Pollan discusses food production, consumer choices, the future of organics and climate change.

The Dangers of McCain's Plan to Sell Health Insurance Across State Lines

The Dangers of McCain's Plan to Sell Health Insurance Across State Lines

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.

How John McCain Would Dismantle Medicare

How John McCain Would Dismantle Medicare

Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. November 3, 2008.
Even if McCain's not elected, keep an eye on Congress.

Want to Shut Conservatives Out of Power for Good? Implement Universal Health Care

Want to Shut Conservatives Out of Power for Good? Implement Universal Health Care

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.

Karl Rove Thinks He's Smarter Than 2,900 Doctors Regarding McCain's Health

Karl Rove Thinks He's Smarter Than 2,900 Doctors Regarding McCain's Health

ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Election 2008. October 27, 2008.
Rove twists NY Times medical reporter's findings in McCain's favor.

The Toilet: Our Greatest Health Breakthrough Ever?

The Toilet: Our Greatest Health Breakthrough Ever?

Marco Visscher, Ode. October 24, 2008.
The toilet could be even more important than vaccines to our health.