A key provision has slipped through that threatens both the effectiveness of the Medical Loss Ratio and the integrity of public health departments.
The lifelong extreme confinement of laying hens in tiny cages is not just inhumane, it's also been linked to human disease. Every one of the eggs recently recalled for Salmonella came from hens confined in cages.
Want a sneak peak at the future of global health? One way is to find out what's on the minds of the next generation of policy leaders and influencers.
In the end, chemical policy reform is about protecting health and life -- the lives of people, the life of the planet. The Bible puts it succinctly when it says, "Choose life." It's time for our country to do exactly that.
The culture wars are all fun and games until someone's mental health is damaged. Here's new evidence that's what's happening. In the 2004 election cy...
The greatest and most costly failure of the medical profession and public health community is their failure to explain to the American people that addiction to alcohol and other drugs is a disease.
If you were a Swati and lived in that idyllic land and were suddenly forced to leave your home to seek shelter outside the district, and then saw the ...
Legalized marijuana would go a long way toward ending a uniquely destructive form of American racism and discrimination.
Something transformative is happening in America. Federal recommendations limiting food marketing to kids. Building sidewalks so that kids can be ph...
U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher sounded the alarm bell a decade ago: childhood obesity was spreading through our nation like an epidemic, jeopardizing the health of our children and threatening to bankrupt our health care system.
NEW ORLEANS — With a huge and unpredictable oil slick drifting in the Gulf of Mexico, state and federal authorities are preparing to deal with a...
After a tornado destroyed 95% of the town, Greensburg, Kansas reinvented itself by striving to become the greenest community imaginable.
If doctors continue to stop accepting Medicare, what will happen to the millions of people who rely on Medicare for their health benefits? This is not just a question of class, but public health.
If we continue to be in denial about the fact that rapidly spreading pandemics are a certainty, then we will be doomed to epidemiological disasters.
The latest chapter in the media's ongoing struggle to cover the Gulf Oil Spill comes courtesy of PBS Newshour's Bridget Desimone, who has been working...
Drug dependency is a chronic, relapsing disease that must be dealt with as a core element of public health policy.
Dr. Kunchok's project serves as a model that can be replicated in regions all over the world where there are medically under-served populations, especially in areas where there are high rates of maternal and infant deaths.
We are both veterans of the tobacco wars and so are not surprised at the industry's attempt to block Mayor Bloomberg's most effort to remind citizens of the grim dangers of smoking.
Munich residents have a reason to toast themselves months before Oktoberfest this year, as the Bavarian city tops the list of Monocle Magazine's Quali...
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While the nation still struggles to understand the impact and implementation of health reform, the Prevention and Public Health Fund—a barely n...
There's a huge disconnect between what doctors and other scientists know and what most patients grasp. To bridge this gap, physicians need do a better job talking to patients in plain language.
The ongoing controversy over coal ash is beginning to make the Obama administration look bad. The president came into office promising to curb the special deals given to moneyed interests. So where's the balance?
The nation's largest private water utility company has joined a federal lawsuit that aims to force the manufacturer of atrazine, a widely-used herbici...
