After a car accident left Michelle Katz, a Washington, D.C., nursing student, with persistent back pain and numbness in 1998, she consulted a neurosur...
Paul Peete | Posted 06.19.2008 | Home
The process of going nuclear has already begun under Bush. John McCain, in turn, has mimicked the Bush plans. Citizens need to push back now so that research dollars will go to promising alternative energy sources instead of becoming a windfall for the corporations who push nuclear power.
Beth Broderick | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
All of us have stories about desperately ill friends and family who have faced the cold cruel reality of being denied treatment by an indifferent insurer. We must all make our voices heard.
Buck Goldstein | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business
At the heart of this bottom up revolution is a concept called Health 2.0, which promises to do for medical care what the Web did for travel only a few years ago.
Sheryl Oring | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
295 people have already participted in my traveling public art project "I Wish to Say," in which I set up an office -- complete with a manual typewriter -- and invite passersby to dictate postcards to the next president.
Doug Bremner | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living
The clinical trials of anti-smoking drug Chantix excluded people with mental disorders, but smoking is increased in this population, and these people are obviously at increased risk of suicidality.
Robert Silvers | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home
The Democratic primary was bruising. The good news is that it's over and that there are genuine ideological differences for McCain and Obama to battle over. Even better is that on the issues, Obama will win.
Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
The small Gold Rush town of Magalia in the shadows of the Sierra Nevada mountains just north of Paradise, Ca. might not be the first place you'd thin...
Bryan Young | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
It's sad and disgusting to me that that I considered cost when my only thought should have been getting my son immediately to the hospital. Within a month, my son and I had accumulated $40,000 in medical bills.
Bruce Kluger | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
I've always liked Canada. Its health care system apparently works; its comedians are consistently a hoot; and the gentle behemoth just upstairs always manages to keep a cool head in a hot world.
Andrew L. Yarrow | Posted 06.05.2008 | Business
How did two proud symbols of American greatness from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries become emblematic of deep social and economic problems and the nation's slide from global pre-eminence?
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
More than 2,100 people are born in the US every day without health insurance. Children simply can't wait while policymakers argue over the best way to get health coverage for everyone.
Mike Fishman and George Gresham | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
Over the next three days, nearly 2,000 delegates from Unions across North America will meet to elect leaders, debate on current issues and set the agenda for our union for the next four years.
Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted 06.02.2008 | Business
Percentage of employees without paid sick leave who say they cannot afford to take unpaid time off work when they become ill: 58
Jared Bernstein | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics
Here is a list of problems we face as a nation, and solutions, guided by one insider's view of what we've learned over these last two terms which have been dominated by conservative ideology.
Dave Winer | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics
Which kind of president would you rather have -- one who accepts the world as it is and then maps out a way to win, or one that grouses at how irrational it is?
Thomas J. Mackell, Jr. | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
Retirement income security has been eroding for more than two decades without any apparent alarm coming from our nation's capitol and its political leaders.
Ann Medlock | Posted 05.27.2008 | Living
There's no reason to fear rabies shots; the conventional wisdom of foot-long needles is a fiction, and the vaccine is 100% effective in preventing death by rabies.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics
Clinton's increasingly desperate quest to show something for her decades of campaigning has taken on a vaguely insane turn, for which we should be grateful, even as it makes us queasy.
Ben Cohen | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
The future for this woman and her family is filled with fear and economic insecurity, and McCain offers virtually nothing in the way of serious solutions.
Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living
A majority of women say they're worried about such fundamental economic issues as paying for health care, not having retirement security, and pay not keeping up with the cost of living.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics
McCain needs a vice president who can help right the tottering GOP ship. He has no choice but to implore Mitt Romney to sign on to the ticket.
Joe Solmonese | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
The absence of federal protections, inadequate state laws and inconsistent hospital policies often result in discrimination and inadequate health care for GLBT patients and their families.
David Sirota | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
Some in Washington, D.C. have said that states should simply wait for the Wise Elders of the Beltway to act -- but a new poll suggests that's not the way the public feels.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
The public's "hunger for change" is not caused by a lack of bipartisanship. It might have something to do with the Iraq war, the sputtering economy, the price of gas, and the way the Bush administration has systematically abandoned the moral high ground.
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abcnews.com | Julian Kesner | Posted 06.20.2008 | Living