Infant Mortality

You Can't Say "Sorry" When Millions Die from Your Mistake

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Jeff Schweitzer

Cheney castigates President Obama for "dithering" because the president does not rush into sending young men and women to their deaths for no reason. Yet to dither on climate change is divine.

A Solution For Infant Mortality? Christian Organization Emphasizes Its Child Survival Program

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact


The Christian Organization Compassion aims to use its influence and funds to "release children from poverty." Their latest campaign, the Child Surviva...

Lies, Damned Lies -- and the DoubleSpeak I Would Erase From the English Language

Johann Hari | Posted 10.19.2009 | World


Johann Hari

The English language needs a spring cleaning to purge phrases that, while posing as neutral descriptions of the world, contain a hidden political agenda that then molds the assumptions of the listener.

Lyme/Autism Group Blasts Genetically Modified Foods as Dangerous

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living


Jeffrey Smith

Stop eating dangerous genetically modified foods! That's the upshot of the Lyme Induced Autism (LIA) Foundation's position paper released today.

Can the BPA Consumer Revolt Trump K Street?

Elaine Shannon | Posted 09.05.2009 | Green


Elaine Shannon

Don't underestimate the power of a consumer revolt. In this economy, who can afford major customer losses?

Unfair Children's Health Disparities: More Reason for Reform

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics


Marian Wright Edelman

Right now, we live in a nation where children of color experience significant health disparities that begin before birth and follow them throughout their lives.

For the Health of the Nation: Ensure a Public Option

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics


Leo W. Gerard

The last time the World Health Organization stacked up countries' health systems, the United States came in 37th, behind Chile, Morocco, Cyprus and even drug war-torn Colombia.

The Inconvenient Truths (For Both Sides) About Late Term Abortions

Steven Waldman | Posted 07.04.2009 | Living


Steven Waldman

How many of the late term cases are mercy killings? How many relate to babies that would survive but in an impaired state (i.e. Downs Syndrome)? And how many were more casual "change of mind" cases?

Madonna, Africa and Child Mortality

Jim Luce | Posted 06.15.2009 | World


Jim Luce

The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.

Keep the Mothers in Mother's Day

CARE | Posted 06.07.2009 | World


CARE

With a firm commitment and action from world leaders, the crisis of maternal mortality can go the way of polio -- phased out village by village until it's all but unheard of anywhere in the world.

Leading the Way to Make Mothers Day Every Day

Donna E. Shalala | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living


Donna E. Shalala

Progress is being made to save the lives of mothers and newborns around the world. Still, every minute, a woman dies of complications in pregnancy and childbirth.

Leading Healthcare Change: No Room for Politics as Usual

Dr. Peter Klatsky | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics


Dr. Peter Klatsky

We are facing incredibly difficult decisions, but policies implemented today will help us to live healthier, longer lives, while also saving billions of dollars.

Our Greatest Health Success -- and a Challenge

Roy M. Pitkin | Posted 02.12.2009 | Living


Roy M. Pitkin

The 20th century brought many, many improvements in health. But by far the most remarkable was the incredible increase in the safety of childbearing.

Will Genetically Modified Foods Make You Sick?

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green


Jeffrey Smith

Two new government studies, published within days of each other, point to disturbing health hazards of genetically modified foods.

Infant Mortality -- and Abortion: A U.S. Scandal

Peter Clothier | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics


Peter Clothier

Given the advanced state of our medical knowledge and the technology at our disposal, infant mortality is also a choice we make, as a society. What moral universe do we live in, that we permit ourselves to do this?

US Among Worst In World In Infant Mortality

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


The rate at which infants die in the United States has dropped substantially over the past half-century, but broad disparities remain among racial gro...