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10 Things the FDA Can Do to Improve Nutrition Labeling

Hemi Weingarten | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Serving-Size, Smart Choices, World Health Organization, Fda, Trans Fats, Who, Caffeine, Food Labeling, Food, Food and Drug Administration, Sugar, Green News
Hemi Weingarten

Wouldn't it be nice if the FDA cleaned up the mess originally created when it brought us the nutrition facts label as we know it today?

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Will We Suffer Two Flu Seasons This Year?

Peter Christian Hall | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Cdc, Infectious Diseases, World Health Organization, Swine Flu Vaccine, Swine Flu Pandemic, Canada Problem, Who, Seasonal Flu, H1n1, Influenza, h3n2, World News
Peter Christian Hall

In this season of swine flu discontent, the annual shot aimed at quelling "normal" flu may have a bad year.

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Swine Flu, Climate Change and a Middle-of-the-Night Tantrum

Joellen Raderstorf | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver

Read More: Environment, H1n1, Mothers, Climate Change, Swine Flu, India, World Health Organization, Politics of Food, World Hunger, International Day of Climate Action, Famine, Who, Food, Global Warming, Denver News
Joellen Raderstorf

Where is our collective panic about climate change? Our energy consumptive lifestyles do not blink in the quake of devastating floods, receding glaciers and starving children.

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HealthCare Focus: Quality versus Cost

Philip Lee Miller | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Frontline, World Health Organization, John Podesta, American Medical Association, Frank Luntz, Kaiser Permanente, Barack Obama, Charlie Rose, Health-Maintenance-Organizations, US News & World Report, Politics News
Philip Lee Miller

Service, expertise, and time. Those are the real challenges of the Healthcare debate.

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First HIV Vaccine Helps Prevent AIDS Infection

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE and MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

Read More: HIV Vaccine, Thailand, World Health Organization, Thailand Hiv Vaccine, Health, AIDS Vaccine, Aids, Unaids, Hiv, World News

BANGKOK — For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and ...

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Tom Friedman's Take On "Wimps" and "The Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, World, Beijing, Amtrak, Harvard Alumni Association, China, Po;itics, France, Nuclear Energy, Wall Street, Communist Party, David Brooks, Oil, High Speed Rail, President Sarkozy, New York Times, Green Energy, World Health Organization, National Endowment for the Arts, French Government, Tom Friedman, Sncf, Politics, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

How are we going to compete in years to come as we go head-to-head with societies that are far better equipped to deal with the exigencies of the future?

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Cost Effective Medical Care

Dr. Dennis Gottfried | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Congress, Medicaid, Medicare, World Health Organization, Medicine, Cost-Effectiveness, Rationing, Politics News
Dr. Dennis Gottfried

Physicians ration care daily based on the patient's type of insurance, on our office's ability to obtain preauthorization, on patient's demands, and on the patient's willingness to pay.

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Disease-Driven Earnings: Is It Time for a New Prescription for "Generation Rx"?

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Laura Bush, Money-Driven-Medicine, American Cancer Society, World Health Organization, Economics, Swine Flu, New York Times, Barack Obama, Business News
Robyn O'Brien

In our country, sickness sells. With money-driven medicine, there is little incentive to prevent illness.

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Why Isn't Health Care a Right?

Kate Southwood | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill of Rights, World Health Organization, Obamacare, Health Care Reform, Norway, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Medicare, Veterans, Health Care Debate, Health Reform Myths, u.s Spending Health Care, American Health Care System Ranked 37th, Norwegian Health Care System, Health Care as a Right, Politics News
Kate Southwood

So if America is already spending more on health care than anyone else and if America's health care technology is second-to-none, why isn't health care a fundamental right?

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Lyme/Autism Group Blasts Genetically Modified Foods as Dangerous

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Seeds of Deception, Roundup Ready, Roundup, Infertility, Safety Test, Toxin, LIA Foundation, Lyme Induced Autism Foundation, Patient Advocacy, Liberty Herbicide, Campaign for Healthier Eating in America, Soy, Allergy, Shopping Guide, Digestive Disorders, Amy Dean, Cancer, Infant Mortality, Environmental Toxin, Genetic Engineering, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Sterility, Genetically Modified Foods, Corn, Genetically Engineered Foods, Carcinogens, Reproductive Problems, Inflammation, Immune System, Rbst, Beneficial Bacteria, Arpad Pusztai, GE Crops, Gmos, Autistic Spectrum, Bt, Institute for Responsible Technology, Kimberly Wilcox, Liberty Link, Rbgh, Gut Flora, Genetic Roulette, Gmo, Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1, Livestock Disease, Dna, Fraternal Twins, Fda, Side Effects, Immune Reaction, World Health Organization, Autism Relief Foundation, Food Allergies, Herbicide-Tolerant, Lyme Disease, Jannelle Love, Animal Feeding Studies, Genetically Modified Organisms, Igf-1, Soy Allergies, GM Crops, Autism, GE Foods, Bovine Growth Hormone, Non-GMO Shopping Guide, GM Foods, Allergies, Aaem, Non-Gmo, Bt-Toxin, Living News
Jeffrey Smith

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

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Firing Squads and Death Panels

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Big Pharma, First Amendment, Birther-Movement, Death Panels, Civil Rights, Health Insurance, Barack Obama, Canada, Chris Matthews, Second Amendment, Pharmaceutical Industry, World Health Organization, Great Britain, Health Care Reform, Socialism, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care, Media News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

My grandmother was one of the first people a pacemaker was used on. A lot of very sincere people believe that if Obama's health care reform bill passes, old people will essentially be facing death panels and denied care.

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WHO predicts 'explosion' of swine flu cases

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

Read More: Who Swine Flu, Who, World Health Organization, Health, Swine Flu, World News

BEIJING — The global spread of swine flu will endanger more lives as it speeds up in the coming months and governments must boost preparations f...

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LBJ Created Canada's Superior Health Care System

Diane Francis | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Oecd, World Health Organization, Health, Health Care Reform, Canada, Universal Health Care, Republicans, Lyndon Johnson, Health Care, Barack Obama, Business News
Diane Francis

Now that the Americans appear to have blown another chance to fix their health care system, it's time for Canadian physicians and others to ratchet up the industry offering selective services to Americans.

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Male Circumcision and the HIV/AIDS Myth

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Lancet Study, Research, Penis, Abraham, Men's Health, Fgm, Kellogg, HIV/AIDS, God, World Health Organization, Female Genital Mutilation, Africa, Circumcision, Foreskin, Medicaid, Health Care, Condoms, Penile Cancer, Female Circumcision, HIV/AIDS Africa, Living News
Ali A. Rizvi

The best way to prevent HIV and other STIs -- whether you're circumcised, uncircumcised, gay, straight, male or female -- is through education and condom use.

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Helping Women: Eliminating Obstetric Fistula in Developing World

Jim Luce | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Facebook, Mexican National Institute of Health, Ronald Reagan, Myspace, “Global Gag Rule”, Women’s Health, Pregnancy, Thought Leaders, Vaginal Fistula, Global Citizens, South Africa, Clinton Global Initiative, Roe v. Wade, Argentina, World Health Organization, Abortion, Uganda, Bill Clinton, Developing World, M.D., Roman Catholic Church, EngenderHealth., Mexico, Twitter, AIDS Prevention, Barack Obama, Ana Langer, Women, Population Control, Reproductive Health, Smith Barney, India, Obstetric Fistula, Orphans International Worldwide, Frances D. Alleman-Luce, Usaid, Pep Far, Engenderhealth, World News
Jim Luce

EngenderHealth focuses on far more than fistula repair and prevention. They are dedicated to improving the overall health and well-being of people in the countries where they work.

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Novel Approaches to IP Collaborations: Advancing Cures for Neglected Diseases

Richard Chin | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Intellectual Property, Novartis, OneWorld Health, Group of Eight, World Health Organization, Neglected Diseases, Glaxo Smith Kline, World News
Richard Chin

There must be multiple approaches to leveraging intellectual property to advance the development of life-saving drugs to combat neglected diseases.

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For the Health of the Nation: Ensure a Public Option

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: The New Yorker, Public Option, President Barack Obama, Canada, United Steelworkers, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Kaiser Family Foundation, Republican, Tommy Douglas, Dr. Atul Gawande, Kiefer Sutherland, Single Payer, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Universal Health Care, American Medical Association, Pre-Existing Conditions, New England Journal of Medicine, World Health Organization, Life Expectancy, Health Care, National Health Care, Infant Mortality, Politics News
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.

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Swine Flu Vaccine Running Behind Schedule

AP | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Swine Flu Vaccination, World Health Organization, Swine Flu Vaccine, H1n1, Swine Flu, H1N1 Vaccine, Who, World News

LONDON -- A fully licensed H1N1 flu vaccine might not be available until the end of the year, a top official at the World Health Organization said Mon...

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UN Aid Programs Have Cost $22B Yet Little Proof They Work, Studies Say

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: United Nations, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Un Aid, United Nations Aid, Lancet Study, The Lancet, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization, World News

LONDON — In the last two decades, the world has spent more than $196 billion trying to save people from death and disease in poor countries. Bu...

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How Should We Think About A Pandemic?

Richard P. Wenzel | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Pandemic, H1N1 Influenza, Flu Pandemic, World Health Organization, H1n1, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Living News
Richard P. Wenzel

A new Pandemic Threat Scale will require unprecedented international cooperation that does not exist today. But surely it is needed, and H1N1 has shown our lack of clarity in 2009.

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Reaping What We Sow: How Industrial Animal Farming is Contributing to the Risk of a Swine Flu Pandemic

Nicolette Hahn Niman | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Avian Flu, Factory Farming, World Health Organization, Livestock, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Green News
Nicolette Hahn Niman

Intensive farming systems -- with crowded animals, ventilation systems, and huge collections of manure -- make industrial poultry and swine operations into breeding grounds for a host of perilous diseases.

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Swine Flu Pandemic Is Closer, Says WHO

AP | MARIA CHENG and FRANK JORDANS | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

Read More: Who, Swine Flu, World Health Organization, Swine Flu Pandemic, Health, World News

GENEVA — Swine flu is now formally a pandemic, a declaration by U.N. health officials that will speed vaccine production and spur government spe...

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A Pandemic Worse than the Swine Flu

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Juliet Jeske, Swine Flu Pandemic, Al Franken, Peak Oil, 12 Monkeys, Global Warming, Minnesota, Will Menaker, Avian Flu, RJ Eskow, Jesse Ventura, World Health Organization, The Venus Syndrome, Jeff Horwich, World Wide Web, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, World News
Patrick Takahashi

Swine flu, though, conjures dark images of your mortality. The communications industry, like CNN, saturates air time on such issues because they know people will watch.

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China, Taiwan Ruling Party Meet For Economic Cooperation Talks

Huffington Post | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: China, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Taiwan, China Taiwan, Hu Jintao, Wu Poh-Hsiung, World Health Organization, Hong Kong, Kuomintang, World News

In another sign of thawing relations, Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday met with Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party to...

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The Meaning of Swine Flu, the Universe, and Everything

RJ Eskow | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

Read More: Cdc, World Health Organization, H1n1, Swine Flu, Ban Ki Moon, Swine Flu Pandemic, Pandemic, Epidemic, World News
RJ Eskow

We went from apocalypse to afterthought in about two weeks, and now we're swinging back. Here's a way to reconcile some of the different and seemingly contradictory perspectives we've been hearing.

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