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Research shows that we have more control over how our bodies' age then previously thought. Not only can you live longer than your parents, you can live more fully as you age. The determining factor is lifestyle.
Research shows that we have more control over how our bodies' age then previously thought. Not only can you live longer than your parents, you can live more fully as you age. The determining factor is lifestyle.
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 07.25.2008 | Living
As brain fitness and training becomes mainstream and new "brain trainers" appear, we can observe a number of trends given significant market growth and recent research findings.
Jeffrey Levi | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
How do Americans expect to compete in the global economy if our workforce isn't healthy enough to be competitive? The good news is, many of the US's most prevalent medical problems are very preventable.
Rep. Jim McDermott | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
While GM may be on the road to financial health, America continues down the same old road of health care going, going, gone for millions of Americans.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
There no sense of decency among the rich and their enablers in the government and in politics, and in the chattering classes who worship before the altar of market fundamentalism.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
This fall, Americans will discover an inconvenient truth about McCain -- he wants you to lose your employer-based health care. He thinks you aren't sufficiently conscious about the cost, and you're using too much of it.
Doug Bremner | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living
"What do I have a lawyer for if you can't help me?" Salim Hamdan asked his lawyers, rhetorically.
John Geyman | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
Last week's action by Congress to override Bush's veto of the Medicare bill was a landmark step toward reversing the tide of privatization of the program over the last three decades.
Lester Feder | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home
In the New York Post, political consultant Dick Morris cries that Obama wants to provide health insurance to undocumented immigrants as part of his plan to cover the 47 million uninsured Americans.
Richard Kirsch | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
Last February, found 78% of voters believe that health insurance companies "put profits before people." It turns out that a few months later the CEO of WellPoint, said yes, that's true!
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
Health Care For America Now, which is a "national grassroots campaign organizing millions of Americans to win a guarantee of quality, affordable healt...
Lester Feder | Posted 07.19.2008 | Home
Al Hubbard, architect of the Bush-cum-McCain health plan, compares Americans' use of the health care system to shoppers who indiscriminately buy caviar while someone else foots the bill, just as Senator Phil Gramm exits as co-chair of John McCain's presidential campaign after calling America a "nation of whiners" in a "mental recession."
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
For only the fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count) time in his presidency, George W. Bush had a veto overridden by both houses of Congress thi...
Paul Armentano | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
If rats can deduce that whole cannabis works better as a medicine than a single synthesized molecule, what's stopping our politicians from reaching this same conclusion?
CNN | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
John McCain devoted a substantial chunk of his town hall meeting Thursday to drawing contrasts with Barack Obama on health care policy, stressing his ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
For a relatively small amount of money, we can provide primary health care to every American in need of it through an expansion of the successful Federally Qualified Health Center program.
Mike Stark | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
I wish I had something exciting to share with you about the America's Health Insurance Plans conference, but Bill Frist, the reptile that he is, never seemed to break a sweat.
Richard Kirsch | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
Health care reform holds the promise to create a generation of Americans who support a government that works for everyone, just as the New Deal led to 4 decades of activist government for the public good.
Cecile Richards | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
Access to contraception is essential and smart public policy. In its waning days, the Bush administration has shown it will stop at nothing to attack women's health care.
Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
In search of a supposedly politically viable plan, the coalition has surrendered in advance on the only overhaul that will actually cure the disease: a single-payer, mproved Medicare for all reform.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
HCAN is right that we must mobilize a massive citizens' movement for universal healthcare. Where they're mistaken is in trying for a compromise that will never work.
Paul Armentano | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
At the same time that federal lawmakers are proclaiming that pot has no medical value, Big Pharma is in a frenzy to bring dozens of new, cannabis-based medicines to market.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
For decades, we have been working to expand the American Dream to include health care for all. Year in and year out, we hear promises and pledges from politicians -- but still, nothing gets done.
Bill Scher | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
McCain will change health care for more people than Obama. All those people potentially affected will have determine if they want the kind of change McCain is offering.
RJ Eskow | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
Roll over, Newt Gingrich, and tell Ayn Rand the news: Sometimes capitalism can be improved when government and free enterprise work as partners. Entrepreneurs are understanding that.
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Carolyn Anderson | Posted 07.25.2008 | Living