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At the heart of Jamie Oliver's work is an assault on bad food and bad eating, keys to the current worldwide obesity epidemic that is wrecking the health of adults and children alike.
At the heart of Jamie Oliver's work is an assault on bad food and bad eating, keys to the current worldwide obesity epidemic that is wrecking the health of adults and children alike.
David Kirby | Posted 12.21.2009 | Living
On Friday the nation's top autism research coordinator said that better diagnosis could not "explain away this huge increase" in autism. "There's no question that there is an environmental component here."
Dr. Bob Sears | Posted 12.21.2009 | Living
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study last week that reveals a dramatic increase in the incidence of autism over just a four-year period.
Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 12.18.2009 | World
The long-term answer to sustainable vaccine access for developing countries is structuring pricing to make doses affordable to those countries.
Rahim Kanani | Posted 11.23.2009 | World
If the United States is truly interested in protecting innocent Americans from being killed, a national discussion about the nation's treatment toward its women should be a top priority for the country moving forward.
Yahoo! News | Serena GordonHealthDay Reporter | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
Whatever the cause, it's clear that the number of children with food allergies has gone up 18 percent and the number seeking treatment for food allerg...
Posted 11.08.2009 | Comedy
While thousands of at-risk Americans wait, some big Wall Street banks have already secured the in-demand swine flu vaccine for their employees. Goldma...
Tim Ellis | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
The anti-vaccination movement has picked up steam in the past few years, and authorities now believe that pockets of unvaccinated children are forming. This is beginning to have deadly results.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
I recently spoke with a Media Relations person at Merck regarding the efficacy and side effects of Gardasil, the new HPV vaccine. Here's what she had to say.
Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
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.
NPR | Weekend Edition Saturday | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics
David Axelrod, President Obama's senior adviser, says the administration based its predictions about how many doses of the H1N1 vaccine would be avail...
Kari Stoever | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living
How many times have you said, or heard someone else say, "I can't afford to be sick right now?" It's an overused cliche that deserves a little attention especially with the outbreak of H1N1 in most people's mind and backyards.
AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living
ATLANTA — Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monit...
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
If H1N1 is a national emergency and an informed hospital health care worker I overhead talking today is right, that most of the flu we're now seeing is H1N1, then what is going on?
Wall Street Journal | BETSY MCKAY and JENNIFER CORBETT DOOREN | Posted 10.25.2009 | Living
Less than half of the swine-flu vaccine expected to be shipped to doctors, hospitals and clinics in the U.S. this month has been shipped so far. The d...
Craig Newmark | Posted 10.23.2009 | Technology
People in Washington get increasingly dedicated to better public service, often via the Net. In September 2009, the CDC launched a three-month text m...
Jerry Chautin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
The lesser-known 504 program from the U.S. Small Business Administration can be ideal for small-business owners to buy, build or rehabilitate commercial buildings.
Peter Christian Hall | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
In this season of swine flu discontent, the annual shot aimed at quelling "normal" flu may have a bad year.
Linda Bergthold | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
It's quite legitimate to ask about the evidence for the importance of vaccinations. But getting vaccinated or not is not simply a personal decision. It affects your family and everyone you associate with.
Laurie M. Tisch | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York
In New York, a unique private-public partnership is deploying specially-permitted street vendors selling only fresh fruits and vegetables to neighborhoods with significant health problems
AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 10.10.2009 | Home
ATLANTA — Health officials said Friday that 76 U.S. children have died of swine flu, including 19 new reports in the past week – more evid...
David Kirby | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living
For the Obama Administration and the mainstream media to accept that autism levels have always been this high is, frankly, wishful thinking and unsettlingly wrongheaded.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
The United States is one of the few industrialized countries without common-sense controls on gun sales. We regulate toy guns but not the real ones that kill tens of thousands every year.
AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 10.05.2009 | Living
CHICAGO — Two new government studies indicate about 1 in 100 children have autism disorders – higher than a previous U.S. estimate of 1 in...
David Kirby | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
Washington loves to dump its bad news on a Friday afternoon, and today it confirmed that one percent of American children (and by extension, perhaps 1-in-58 boys) has an autism spectrum disorder.
Amy Novogratz | Posted 12.23.2009 | Impact