Alice Alech, The Wip. August 28, 2008. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, with one in nine women affected at some stage in their lives.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. August 28, 2008. Though Obama's health plan is far better than McCain's, it still only tinkers around the edges. What we need is a system overhaul.
Judy Waxman, The Women's Media Center. August 27, 2008. And with good reason: The nation's health care system is in crisis, and women are bearing the brunt of its failures.
Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. August 26, 2008. The New England Journal of Medicine raises some serious questions about the vaccine's safety and effectiveness.
Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future. August 25, 2008. Reducing drug industry influence is critical to bringing skyrocketing prescription drug and health care costs under control.
Anna Clark, RH Reality Check. August 18, 2008. Home births presided over by trained midwives are as safe as hospital births. Yet many in the medical community present midwifery as dangerous.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. August 18, 2008. Smoking is an addiction, not a choice. The public has long known this. Finally, Congress is catching on.
Octogalore, Feministe AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. August 13, 2008. The cases of John Edwards and Eliot Spitzer bring to light some views on monogamy and polygamy.
Yifat Susskind, AlterNet. August 5, 2008. Across the world, it is women and girls who are responsible for risking their health and often lives to get their households' water.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. August 2, 2008. By starting with Medicare and showing what can be done, reformers enhance their chances of winning the larger war.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. July 18, 2008. Doctors are getting fed up with private insurers. Here's a look at what out-of-pocket costs could look like for patients.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. July 16, 2008. What's more, this new plan from Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel would rein in health care inflation and insulate our health system from lobbyists.
Ursula Sautter, Mary Desmond Pinkowish, Ode. July 15, 2008. Neurosis, hysteria, stress, nausea, and high blood pressure -- just a few of the health problems linked to noise.
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.
Riane Eisler, The Wip. July 11, 2008. Until people (including progressives) stop thinking of "women's issues" secondary, the U.S. will continue on its path of poverty and war.
Charles Shaw, AlterNet. July 11, 2008. After a 40-year moratorium, credible research for treating illnesses and addictions with psychedelic compounds has made a miraculous comeback.
Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check. July 10, 2008. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is tangled in ideological restrictions. Fixing the legislation would save millions more lives.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 10, 2008. The obesity epidemic is largely of our own making. The solution has to come from healthy activities, not the pharmaceutical industry.
