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3 Ways To Take Control Of Your Health Today

Thomas Goetz | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Thomas Goetz

Why don't we do what we know is good for us? Part of what may be going on here is that we lack a sense of agency in our health - we don't feel like we're actually in control, or that our engagement will matter.

Biodiversity Remakes Tokyo

Jared Braiterman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jared Braiterman

The Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference addresses unparalleled environmental crisis and the need to transform our relationship with nature. Many p...

Tobacco Company Reynolds In Talks To Buy Company For Quitters

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

RICHMOND, Va. — Reynolds American Inc., maker of Camel cigarettes and Grizzly smokeless tobacco, is in talks to buy a Swedish company that helps...

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Supports Human Health

Sarah Lovinger | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Sarah Lovinger

Today's announcement that President Obama won this year's Nobel Peace Prize not only strengthened the peace process, it also benefited human health worldwide.

Viva Haiti

Anne Hill | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Anne Hill

Haiti needs our help long-term. After this crisis has passed, we need to figure out how to help the people of Haiti without repeating the missteps of our ill-begotten occupation a century ago.

Birth Control, Water, And Women

Susan Kim | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Susan Kim

Thanks in large part to a decade of nearly nonexistent enforcement, tens of millions of men, women and children now routinely drink, bathe in and cook with tap water laced with illegal levels of contaminants.

Biolabs Multiplying Like Rabbits: A Clear and Present Danger

Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Barton Kunstler, Ph.D.

The dangers posed by biolabs often fly under the radar, but that may be changing. The public would do well to question the knee-jerk "security at all costs" policy of the federal government.

Get your flu shots -- and ignore Bill Maher

Harold Pollack | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Harold Pollack

I just want to endorse Linda Bergthold's recent HuffPo column about Bill Maher. Maher is a funny guy who often displays a sharp intellect. On matters ...

HIV Services Face Foreclosure: Will Illinois Leaders Come to the Rescue?

Mark Ishaug | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Mark Ishaug

Unless immediate actions are taken to remedy the state's spiraling budget crisis, vital HIV/AIDS services will be put in serious jeopardy.

Chicago's Public Health Budget Gets The Flu

Johnathon Briggs | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Johnathon Briggs

Some essential city services are too important to do without. Alarmingly, Mayor Daley's 2010 budget plan calls for a $2.1 million funding reduction (6.7% cut) for public health.

Public Health Key To Reducing Urban Violence: Kotlowitz

The Daily Northwestern | Lauren Kelleher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

According to acclaimed author Alex Kotlowitz, an unlikely tool - public health - can be used to help combat violence in Chicago's impoverished neighbo...

Doctors Urge Politicians To Fight Climate Change

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

LONDON — A weak response to climate change could be catastrophic for international health, leading doctors said in two British medical journals ...

Toxic Waters: Clean Water Laws Neglected At A Cost To Health

The New York Times | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Jennifer Hall-Massey knows not to drink the tap water in her home near Charleston, W.Va. In fact, her entire family tries to avoid any contact wit...

Unchecked Swine Flu, (Sick?) CAFO Workers and Lax Regulation, Oh My

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Paula Crossfield

Now, as the World Health Organization expects a second wave of the flu to hit the northern hemisphere in the fall, it is worth considering some of the looming questions on how CAFOs could be contributing to the occurrence of disease.

Don't Take Your Drinking Water for Granted this World Water Day

Scott Dodd | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Scott Dodd

Where does your drinking water come from? Natural historian Sidney Horenstein has been asking that question around New York City for decades. The ans...

Germs Don't Care If You Are Legal Or Not

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Chris Weigant

Do you really want to limit vaccinations only to people who have legal documents, or would you rather everyone get inoculated? Remember, those you exclude will likely have some sort of contact with either you, your kids, or the food you eat at some point.

Part 3: Un-Spinning Healthcare Reform - The Economics

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Kimberly Krautter

I don't know about you, but one thin dime for every buck you make seems like a very easy trade for being able to see the doctor any time you need to.

Reality Check: National Health Care is National Security

Dan Agin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dan Agin

A public health service is not just a convenience, it's a vital part of the national security of a country.

Blue Dogs Will Be Swept Out if Health Care Public Option Fails

Scott Foval | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Scott Foval

Time to buck up, Mr. President, and remember that the Progressive wing of the Democratic Party went along with your rhetoric, but we expect that you will deliver the public option.

Testing for Date Rape Drugs

Sophia Carroll | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Sophia Carroll

On Independence Day, somebody somehow slipped a pill into my wine glass at a dinner dance, and I left about three minutes before it really hit. Date rape drugs are a weapon.

State Budget Cuts Threaten City's Response To Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Chicago Public Radio | Travis Truitt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

Public health officials in Chicago are calling on state lawmakers to craft a responsible public health budget....

First Lady Visits Community Health Clinic

AP | NATASHA T. METZLER | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama visited a community health center Monday to announce the release of $850 million in stimulus grants to he...

Matt Damon, ONE and a Tractable Global Problem

John Sauer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
John Sauer

Universal access to water and sanitation is still a pipe dream for many poorer countries, especially nations in Africa.

Blood and Treasure: Free Trade Human Plasma Across the US Mexican Border?

Aram Roston | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Aram Roston

The United States is the world's leading exporter of human plasma - providing about 70 per cent of global supplies, the biggest player in what is now a multibillion dollar business.

Why the AMA Doesn't Speak for Me

Dr. Peter Klatsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dr. Peter Klatsky

Most physicians went into medicine because it allowed us to heal, comfort and help people. Sadly, the AMA feels like it exists only to help doctors help themselves.