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Hospitals

Helping Injured Iraqi Children: One Man's Quest to Right the Wrongs of War (VIDEO)

Jennifer Utz | Posted 01.07.2009 | World

Read More: Injured Civilians, Destruction, No More Victims, Iraq Kids, Children, Iraq War Iraq Kids Killed, Hospitals, Injured Children, Baghdad, Iraq Iraq War, Iraq Five Years of War, World News
Jennifer Utz

Warning: Viewer Discretion is advised Nine year-old Salee was playing hopscotch with friends when US jets fired three missiles on her town of Hasswa,...

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"The Change" Our Children Need: REACHing for Kid Safe Chemicals

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 12.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Plastics, Toxic Chemicals, Health, Hospitals, Cpsc, Cord Blood, Chemicals, Toxic Toys, Reach, Green News
Christopher Gavigan

At the local hospital near you, right now, babies are being born with over 200 industrial chemicals in their cord blood.

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Capitalism at its Worst: Our Healthcare system

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 11.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Hospitals, Babies, Children, Children's Health Insurance, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Living News
Olivia Rosewood

Grace couldn't afford for the surgery to be cancelled or even delayed. The infection had caused her little cheek to swell and finally rip open. What could she do? What could I do?

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Hospitals' Nuclear Waste Problems Pose A Security Threat For US

AP | SEANNA ADCOX | Posted 10.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Nuclear Weapons, Hospitals, Hospital Waste, Dirty Bomb, Terrorism, Green News

BARNWELL, S.C. — Tubes, capsules and pellets of used radioactive material are piling up in the basements and locked closets of hospitals and res...

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Children's Defense Fund Founder: McCain Will Leave Millions Of Children Uninsured

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Billionaires, Congress, Wall Street Bailout, Children's Health Fund, Working Parents, Barack Obama Polls, Universal Healthcare, Katrina Victims, Regulation, Immigration, Health Insurance, Barack Obama Race, Mccain Immigration, Katrina Relief, Offthebus, Uninsured, Devante Johnson, Marian Wright Edelman, Illegal Immigrants, Teen Pregnancy, Deamonte Diver, Hurricane Katrina, Vision Insurance, Health Care, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, Mccain Katrina, Democratic Congress, John McCain, Dental Insurance, Iraq War Funding, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Iraq War, John McCain 2008, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Health, 2008 Presidential Race, Schip, Deregulation, Hospitals, Prescription Drugs, Hillary Clinton, Working Families, Medicaid, Healthcare, Huffingtonpost OffTheBus, Working Moms, Children's Defense Fund, Home News
Diane Tucker

"Sen. McCain has no specific plan for children. We keep a Congressional scorecard... Senator McCain received the lowest score of anyone in the Senate in 2007."

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Lessons for Hospitals from Hurricane Gustav

Sheri Fink | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Gustav, Evacuation, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana, Hospitals, Politics News
Sheri Fink

Cross-posted with ProPublica As Hurricane Gustav approached the southern Louisiana coastline late last month, an estimated 10,000 hospital, nursing h...

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Simple Economics, Complicated Medicine

Peter A. Ubel | Posted 10.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Economics, Pneumonia, Health Reform, Health Care, Health, Medicine and Doctor Performance, Antibiotics, Hospitals, Emericgency Room, Business News
Peter A. Ubel

Overuse of antibiotics leads not only to antibiotic resistance, but also creates potentially life-threatening side effects.

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Waiting For a Miracle: Palestinian Refugees in Egyptian Hospitals are Victims of Bureaucracy

Dina Basiony and Lisa Munger | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palestine, Cairo, Egypt, Health, Nasser Medical Institute, Hospitals, Cancer, Refugees, Politics News
Dina Basiony and Lisa Munger

Patients at Nasser Medical Institute, an Egyptian hospital that receives injured Palestinians, are afraid they will fall through the cracks between the dueling bureaucracies of Egypt and Palestine.

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Death by Neglect

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 07.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Overmedication, Mental Health, Kings County Hospital Center, New York Civil Liberties Union, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Flophouses, Health, Esmin Green, Psychiatric Drugs, Hospitals, New York City and State Mental Health Systems, Parkinsonism, Living News
Jay Neugeboren

My brother Robert has been a patient in the NYC mental health systems for the past 46 years, and though outraged by Esmin Green's death, I'm not surprised -- people with mental illness remain the stepchildren of the medical system.

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What Americans Want: National Health Insurance

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 07.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Hospitals, John Conyers, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Health Care, Health, YES! Magazine, Living News
Sarah van Gelder

It doesn't have to be this way. A video of a woman dying in a Brooklyn hospital waiting room after nearly 24 hours waiting for treatment is just one m...

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Obama's Coming Battle With Conscience

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Foster Care, Conscience Exceptions, Faith-Based Initiatives, Homosexual Parents, Prescription Drugs, Safe Sex, Hospitals, Condoms, Aids, Barack Obama, Adoption, Politics News
Angela Bonavoglia

Faith-based institutions have done an enormous amount to improve people's lives, but determining how to support that work in a country that values the separation of church and state is no easy matter.

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Gender Apartheid

Amy Coen | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Corruption, Foreign Aid, Women's Rights, Fgm, Apartheid, Foreign Assistance, Ethiopia, Violation, Prenatal, Conflict, Prevention, Africa, Aids, Racism, Female, Development, Developing Countries, Public Health, Hiv, Gender, Ngo, Contraceptives, Female Genital Mutilation, Health, Sex, Health Programs, Hospitals, Communities, Sexual Education, Condoms, Living News
Amy Coen

Boge explained her biggest challenge decades earlier was to convince the first mother that her 'uncut' daughter would have a good life; she would be an acceptable wife, bear children and be healthy.

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