Talking to Kids About Swine Flu...Without Scaring Them Silly

Danielle Wood, 11.13.2009

Editor-in-Chief, Education.com

It's up to parents to give kids the information they need to stay calm, and hopefully healthy, in the face of the swine flu pandemic. To start, here are five swine flu myths to address.

Smiling at Fear: Pema Chodron

Alison Rose Levy, 11.13.2009

Health journalist, coach, and advocate, Media Director, Friends of Health

Whether we seek protection, or try to prove how brave we are, we often miss fear's true opportunity to teach us authentic courage.

Eating Animals: Foer Gets The Facts On Factory Farms

Kerry Trueman, 11.11.2009

Co-founder of EatingLiberally.org

Eating Animals, the searing indictment of factory farming by Jonathan Safran Foer, has got the champions of cheap chuck denouncing the celebrated novelist's latest work as just another piece of fiction.

How To Reclaim Spare Time

Kari Henley, 11.08.2009

President of the Board of Directors at the Women & Family Life Center

There is something nostalgic about spare time. Like an old friend you knew once and somehow lost touch. Spare time beckons, yet few can hear the whispers.

Cantor & Nazism; H1N1 & Wall Street; Billionaires for Wealthcare

Mike Stark, 11.07.2009

Journalist

I spent the day on the Hill interviewing Representatives about Wall Street and how they were able to jump the line to get the H1N1 flu vaccine before pregnant women and children.

Blackout: Military Personnel Banned From H1N1 Vaccine Sites

Allen McDuffee, 11.10.2009

Part journalist, part investigative reporter, part blogger

If you want to draw attention to a problem, try hiding it. That's the strategy of several military bases when it comes to the H1N1 vaccine.

Swine Flu Smackdown: How to Avoid Infection (and a Fistfight)

Ben Sherwood, 11.05.2009

Author, Journalist, Founder and CEO of TheSurvivorsClub.org

It may not sound like much, but the best defense against the swine flu involves some very simple steps: Every sneeze should be covered and every hand should be washed.

Exercise and Your Immune System: Warding off H1N1 One Dead Rodent at a Time

Charlotte Hilton Andersen, 11.04.2009

Runs the health and fitness site The Great Fitness Experiment

Does exercise really boost your immune system? Two new studies examine this connection and the results are not as clear cut as everyone would like to believe.

H1N1 Found in First US Commercial Swine Herd - Keep Your Eye on Factory Farms, China, and the Birds

David Kirby, 11.05.2009

Author/Journalist

Though it would appear that people can infect pigs with H1N1, it is not clear whether live pigs can infect people. For now, officials are far more worried about the former than the latter.

A Decade Of Questioning Harm And The Autism-Vaccine Connection

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds, 11.04.2009

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds graduated with a Bachelors of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College in S ...

For over a decade, I've relentlessly searched for answers to the connections I believe exist between my son's autism and vaccines he received.

Swine Flu Vaccine: Why You Should Stop Worrying and Roll Up Your Sleeve

Ben Sherwood, 11.05.2009

Author, Journalist, Founder and CEO of TheSurvivorsClub.org

When we're bombarded with information (and opinion), experts say our brains simply aren't wired to balance risk vs. benefit and make sound decisions. Simply put, too many of us worry about the wrong things.

The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-Up: Optimism as a Public Health Problem

Barbara Ehrenreich, 11.03.2009

New York Times bestselling author

According to academic "positive psychologists," and legions of unlicensed life coaches, optimism wards off common illnesses and extends longevity. It turns out to be less than salubrious when it comes to public health.

To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate? Why Is It a Question?

Kate Kelly, 11.03.2009

Author of six-volume history of medicine and Election Day

As Americans we have little memory of days when our loved ones could be snatched away from us by a contagious illness. We watch our friends and relat...

It's Election Day: May I Take Your Order?

Kerry Trueman, 11.03.2009

Co-founder of EatingLiberally.org

Think of your ballot as a list of menu options. Would you like your burger with, or without, deadly pathogens?

Surfing The Rio Grande

Chuck Prophet, 11.02.2009

It's hard to say exactly what inspired me to record my new CD ¡Let Freedom Ring! in Mexico City amidst warring drug war lords, brown-outs, CNN swine ...

Pneumonia: A Bigger Killer than Swine Flu

Josh Ruxin, 11.03.2009

Public health and economic development expert based in Rwanda

Worried about H1N1? It's nothing compared to pneumonia, still one of the leading causes of death of children around the world.

What Swine Flu Feels Like

Maria Rodale, 11.05.2009

CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc. and book author

H1N1 comes on fast. Flu usually does. It's not a day or two of sneezing leading to a stuffy nose. It's waking up with a sore throat or a cough and getting a fever and feeling like crap all on day one.

Health Care Coverage: Healthy Topic of Conversation

Tamar Abrams, 11.01.2009

Tamar Abrams is a strategic communications consultant based in Arlington, VA.

A teacher, a lawyer and a writer walk into a bar and start talking about their health insurance coverage. Not the beginning of a joke, but the happy r...

Halloween Costumes Ripped From The Headlines

Glynnis MacNicol, 10.31.2009

Senior Editor, Mediaite.com

So it's the morning of Halloween, and you don't have a costume. You were going to be Kanye West, but the friend you were counting on to be your Taylor...

Paging Dr. Benjamin

Dr. Nancy Snyderman, 10.30.2009

NBC News Chief Medical Editor and host of MSNBC's "Dr. Nancy"

Well it's about time. Nine months after the inauguration of President Obama, we finally have our Surgeon General. And it couldn't have come soon enough.

First Ever World Pneumonia Day. Nov. 2

Dr. Pat Hibberd, 10.30.2009

Director, Center for Global Health Research at Tufts University

Pneumonia is the number one killer of children under age five around the world. It is so prevalent that the first World Pneumonia Day will establish a global call for action to tackle childhood pneumonia head on.