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July 25, 2010
7/25/10 Blumenthal, McClatchy, U.S. farmers may face crackdown on pesticide use
7/25/10 Hufstutter, LAT, Raw-food raid highlights a hunger
7/25/10 Banales, IPS, Mentally Ill Adrift in U.S. Immigration System
July 23, 2010
7/23/10 BBC, Multinational Company Trafigura Found Guilty of Exporting Toxic Waste
7/23/10 Frosch, NYT, V.A. Easing Rules for Users of Medical Marijuana
7/23/10 Eley, CRG, US War Crimes: Cancer rate in Fallujah worse than Hiroshima
July 20, 2010
7/20/10 DemocracyNow, EPA Whistleblower Accuses Agency of Covering Up Effects of Dispersant in BP Oil Spill Cleanup
July 16, 2010
7/16/10 Ilg, IPS, Nigeria Suffers Acute Lead-Poisoning Outbreak
7/16/10 BBC, Malaria-proof mosquito engineered
July 15, 2010
7/15/10 Drummond, Wired, Human Trials Next for Darpa's Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm
7/15/10 Hopkins, ADN, Suicides, attempts spike again in Western Alaska villages
7/15/10 Fox, Reuters, U.S. groups target 20 possible causes of cancer
7/15/10 CNN, Rash of drownings as Russians attempt to escape heat
7/15/10 Mount, CNN, June was worst month for Army suicides, statistics show
July 14, 2010
7/14/10 Singel, Wired, Report: Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High
7/14/10 Censer, WP, Emergent set to announce anthrax vaccine contract
July 13, 2010
7/13/10 Jamail & Blumenfeld, Dahr Jamail's Dispatches, Toxic Dispersants Near Gulf Harm Humans and Wildlife
7/13/10 Barrett, McClatchy, Victims of toxic Camp Lejeune water are holding meet-ups
July 10, 2010
7/09/10 Kaminer, NYT, Cool Air, if You Can Get to It
7/10/10 Batty, Guardian, UK heatwave may have caused hundreds of deaths
July 9, 2010
7/09/10 Wang, ProPublica, BP's New Illness and Injury Stats, Texas Tarballs, and More
7/09/10 Stewart, Independent, Millions Face Starvation as Niger Prays in Vain for Rain
7/09/10 Carey & Villegas, KHN, Coming health care changes you may not know about
July 7, 2010
7/07/10 Ott, Huffington Post, The Big Lie: BP, Governments Downplay Public Health Risk From Oil and Dispersants
July 6, 2010
7/06/10 Weise, ProPublica, Reporters Look Into PSI's Influence and Problems in Virginia
July 5, 2010
7/05/10 Kaufman, NYT, Agency Agreed That Spill Risk to Wildlife Was 'Low'
7/05/10 Chalala, Globalist, Paying a Heavy Price for the Afghan War
July 3, 2010
7/03/10 Kusnetz, ProPublica, A Fracking First in Pennsylvania: Cattle Quarantine
July 2, 2010
7/02/10 AFP, Oil Spills Boost Arsenic Levels in Ocean: Study
7/02/10 Gupta, Think Forward, Environmental Justice, Science Leaders Urge Action Linking Climate and Public Health
7/02/10 Cooper, CNN, Breathing equipment being given to some oil spill workers
7/02/10 BBC, Life expectancy gap 'is widening'
July 1, 2010
7/01/10 Wang, Govt's Banned Trailers, Unsafe for Housing, Reappear in Gulf
7/01/10 Linkins, Huffington, Oil Spill Media Access: Reporters Still Given the Runaround Even as Public Health Concerns Mount
7/01/10 Sanders, Wired, Stem Cells From Human Blood Can Be Reprogrammed
7/01/10 Pender, Biloxi Sun, Oil found in Gulf crabs raises new food chain fears
7/01/10 Nelson, Biloxi Sun, Oil spill cleanup waste might be heading to local landfills
June 28, 2010
6/28/10 Grey, Telegraph, Giant Salmon Will Be First GM Animal Available for Eating
6/28/10 Ackerman, Wired, U.S. Troops Face New Threat: Afghanistan's Toxic Sand
6/28/10 Harris, NYT, Antibiotics in Animals Need Limits, F.D.A. Says
6/28/10 CNN, 162 cases of illness linked to oil spill reported in Louisiana
6/28/10 EDIE, Water shortages a growing global concern - WWF
6/28/10 Landau, CNN, Vaccination role unclear in whooping cough outbreak
6/28/10 Vaughan, Guardian, You ask, they answer: Slow Food UK
June 27, 2010
6/27/10 Vernon, Guardian, Thin is in: in search of the perfect male body
June 26, 2010
6/26/10 Lin, LAT, Severe overcrowding is routine at L.A. County-USC Medical Center
June 25, 2010
6/25/10 Hickman, Guardian, Is there any hope out there for our ailing bee populations?
6/25/10 Pear, NYT, Insurance Pools Readied in Some States
6/25/10 Phillips, CNN, Family: Oil disaster devastated captain who committed suicide
6/25/20 Meikel, Guardian, Human foetus feels no pain before 24 weeks, study says
6/25/10 BBC, Campaigners dismiss Bhopal compensation as insufficient
June 24, 2010
6/22/10 Bloomberg, Health Data Gaps, BP Suspicions Worry U.S. Panelists
6/24/10 Jha, Guardian, Human Genome Project leader warns against attempts to patent genes
6/24/10 Konrad, NYT, Insurance Pools for High-Risk Patients Start Soon
6/24/10 Maykuth, Phil Inquirer, 'Gasland' Documentary Fuels Debate over Natural Gas Extraction
6/24/10 Max, AP, Report: Toxins Found in Whales Bode Ill for Humans
6/24/10 Hedgepeth & Fahrenthold, WP, Apparent suicide by fishing boat captain underlines oil spill's emotional toll
6/24/10 Jha, Guardian, Lung-on-a-chip could be used to predict the effects of toxins or drugs
June 23, 2010
6/23/10 Phillips, CNN, Oil soaks miles of Pensacola Beach
6/23/10 BBC, Two people die in Gulf oil spill clean-up - US official
6/23/10 Wang, ProPublica, As BP Works Through Backlog, Cleanup Worker Illness Stats Triple Since Prior Report
6/23/10 Berger, IPS, Shift in Illicit Drug Use Bodes Ill for Developing World
June 22, 2010
6/22/10 Weise, ProPublica, Fracking Tales: Stories From the Frontlines of Gas Drilling
6/22/10 Boseley, Guardian, Convenience food changes could save 'thousands of lives'
6/22/10 Moskvitch, Guardian, Loss of bees could be 'a blow to UK economy'
June 21, 2010
6/21/10 Sack & Stolberg, NYT, As Law Takes Effect, Obama Gives Insurers a Warning
6/21/10 BBC, Monsanto GM Seed Ban is Overturned by US Supreme Court
6/21/10 Eilperin, WP, Obama, EPA to push for restoration of Superfund tax on oil, chemical companies
6/21/10 Foy, Guardian, Millions face starvation in west Africa, warn aid agencies
June 20, 2010
6/20/10 Barrett, McClatchy, VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to toxic water
6/20/10 Blumentahl, McClatchy, Are Australian honeybees behind U.S. hive collapse
6/20/10 Walker, CNN, Study: Millions in Bangladesh exposed to arsenic in drinking water
June 19, 2010
6/19/10 BBC, Economic crisis 'must not disrupt vaccine programme'
June 18, 2010
6/18/10 Sapien, ProPublica, Freddie Mac Offers Relief to Homeowners Dealing With Chinese Drywall
June 16, 2010
6/16/10 Sutter, CNN, San Francisco to warn consumers about cell radiation levels
6/16/10 BBC, Deadly flash floods hit southern France
June 15, 2010
6/15/10 Taylor, McClatchy, BP's records on ill workers tell only part of the story
6/15/10 Allen, Deep Journal, Food prices to rise by up to 40% over next decade, UN report warns
6/15/10 Blas, FT, Price rises fuel food 'crises' fears
6/15/10 Chicago Daily Herald, Nalco Dispersant Makes Oil More Toxic to Marine Life, Group Says
6/15/10 Roberts, BBC, Lung cancer risk 'cut by B vitamin'
6/15/10 Galewitz & Carey, McClatchy, New health care rules for employers draw mixed reaction
6/15/10 Ayala, IPS, Food Security Further Undermined by Climate Disasters
6/15/10 BBC, Emerging economies 'to enjoy food production boom'
June 14, 2010
6/14/10 Ghosh, BBC, Artificial life 'needs regulation' - public survey says
June 13, 2010
6/13/10 Stocking, AP, Vietnam, US Still in Conflict over Agent Orange Burden
6/13/10 BBC, Scientists take first steps in growing working livers
June 12, 2010
6/12/10 Wade, NYT, A Decade Later, Genetic Map Yields Few New Cures
June 11, 2010
6/11/10 Schoof & taylor, McClatchy, Plan to burn excess oil from BP well raises health questions
June 10, 2010
6/10/10 Casey, AP, Study: Shrinking glaciers to spark food shortages
June 9, 2010
6/09/10 Pringle, Public Records, Tracking the American Epidemic of Mental Illness
6/09/10 Drummond, Military Can't Keep Tabs on Pill-Popping Troops, Senate Says
6/09/10 Taylor, McClatchy, Experts: BP's plan to protect spill workers inadequate
6/09/10 Landau, CNN, Gulf states tracking oil-related illnesses
June 8, 2010
6/08/10 Jamail, TruthOut, Military Neglecting Fort Hood Soldiers' Medical Needs
6/08/10 Reuters, Texas panhandle gas pipeline blast kills 2
6/08/10 BBC, Gulf spill: US tests confirm big underwater oil plumes
6/08/10 Bresnahan, BBC, Oil spill stress therapy for Louisiana fishermen
June 7, 2010
6/07/10 MacDonald, AP, Surging Costs Hit Food Security in Poorer Nations
6/07/10 Illis, Charges of Whitewashing Cloud Mine Safety Investigations
6/07/10 Gardner-Smith, ProPublica, Joaquin Sapien on Chinese Drywall
6/07/10 Miller & Zwerdling, ProPublica, Brain Injuries Remain Undiagnosed in Thousands of Soldiers
6/07/10 Berner-Lees, Guardian, What's the carbon footprint of ... a heart bypass operation?
6/07/10 BBC, Bhopal gas leak convictions not enough, say campaigners
6/07/10 BBC, Banned GM maize sown in Germany
June 6, 2010
6/06/10 Doward, Observer, GM Lobby Helped Draw Up Crucial Report on Britain's Food Supplies
6/06/10 Wilkinson, BBC, Brain regulates cholesterol in blood, study suggests
June 4, 2010
6/04/10 Wang, ProPublica, Former Valdez Cleanup Worker Warns of Toxic Dangers in the Gulf
6/04/10 Smith, Guardian, World Cup 2010: Fifa blocking condom distribution at venues, say Aids groups
June 3, 2010
6/03/10 Rice, CommonDreams, Severe Drought Causes Hunger for 10 Million in West Africa
6/03/10 Wang, ProPublica, Inspectors Fault Beryllium Safety at Hanford Nuclear Reservation
June 2, 2010
6/02/10 Gram, AP, Radioactive Fish Near Vt. Nuke Plant Deemed Common
6/02/10 Federman, Earth Island Journal, The Upper Delaware's Last Stand: Threat of Gas Drilling Earns River Most Endangered Status
6/02/10 BBC, Bumper Kenya maize harvest contaminated by toxins
June 1, 2010
6/01/10 Chait, inhabitots, Genetically Modified Food May Cause Long-Term Sterility
6/01/10 Wang, ProPublica, Air Sampling Finds a Compound in Toxic Dispersant Is Also in the Air
May 31, 2010
5/31/10 Hill, Guardian, Why teenagers can't concentrate: too much grey matter
May 30, 2010
5/30/10 Sapien & Kessler, ProPublica, Tainted Chinese Drywall Concerns Went Unreported for Two Years
May 28, 2010
5/28/10 Gambrell, AP, Millions face hunger in arid belt of Africa
May 27, 2010
5/27/10 BBC, Taiwan iPhone-maker Foxconn suffers another death
May 26, 2010
5/26/10 Wang, ProPublica, More Reports of Illness Emerge Among Gulf Cleanup Workers
5/26/10 Cruz & Cart, LAT, Oil cleanup workers report illness
May 25, 2010
5/24/10 Drummond, Wired, Pentagon to Troop-Killing Superbugs: Resistance Is Futile
May 24, 2010
5/24/20 Stein, WP, FDA considers endorsement of drug that some call a Viagra for women
5/24/10 Weaver, Wired, Testosterone Makes People Suspicious of One Another
5/24/10 Kurczy, CSM, Top 10 countries with most improved child mortality rates
May 23, 2010
5/23/10 Hellenbeck, Burlington Free Press, Strontium-90 Discovered in Soil Surrounding Vermont Yankee Leak
May 21, 2010
5/21/10 Chen, CNN, Pressure for female genital cutting lingers in the U.S.
May 20, 2010
5/20/10 BBC, 'Unintended' statin side-effect risks uncovered
5/20/10 Ehrenreich, AlterNet, Why Forced Positive Thinking Is a Total Crock
5/20/10 Sassoon, Guardian, Did Deepwater methane hydrates cause the BP Gulf explosion?
May 17, 2010
5/17/10 Peptone, CNN, Doctors' Medicare payouts to be cut 21% June 1
5/17/10 Bryant, BBC, Residents' fears over Australian mines
5/17/10 Klein, CNN, Study: ADHD linked to pesticide exposure
5/17/10 BBC, Smallpox demise linked to spread of HIV infection
May 16, 2010
5/16/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The Cost of "Multitasking"
May 15, 2010
5/15/10 BBC, Diet of mud and despair in Indian village
May 13, 2010
5/13/10 Briggs, BBC, DNA clue to life at high altitude
May 12, 2010
5/12/10 Sample,uardian, Marrying a younger man increases a woman's mortality rate
May 10, 2010
5/10/10 Welsh, Wired, Mice Show Pain on Their Faces Just Like Humans
5/10/10 Gardner, CNN, Are too many people taking heartburn drugs?
5/10/10 BBC, Meeting Millenium Development Goals
May 7, 2010
5/07/10 Flesher, AP, Oil spill may endanger human health, officials say
5/07/10 Branigan, Guardian, Chinese workers link sickness to n-hexane and Apple iPhone screens
May 6, 2010
5/06/10 Kaiser, WHO Publishes Comprehensive Report On H1N1
5/06/10 Fox, Reuters, Report: Environmentally Induced Cancer Grossly Underestimated
5/06/10 BBC, Africa's grandmothers debate HIV/Aids
5/06/10 BBC, Syphilis cases rise sharply in China
May 5, 2010
5/05/10 Keim, Wired, Toxic Oil Dispersant Used in Gulf Despite Better Alternative
May 4, 2010
5/04/10 Trahant, Kaiser, Measuring the progress in native health - life expectancy for Native Americans
May 3, 2010
5/03/10 Wheeler, ITT, The Poisoning of Puerto Rico
5/03/10 Epstein, ProPublica, Chapter 4: Beryllium Whistleblowers at Hanford
5/03/10 Standaert, IPS, E-waste Processing Poisons Health, Environment
May 2, 2010
5/02/10 Stein, WP, Group to censure physicians who play role in lethal injections
5/02/10 Benjamin, Guardian, Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe
May 1, 2010
5/01/10 CNN, Children's cold, allergy medicine recalled
April 30, 2010
4/30/10 Kaiser, While Global Adult Mortality Rates Drop, Gaps Between Countries Grow, Lancet Study Finds
4/30/10 Drummond, Wired, Pentagon Scientists Inject Necks to 'Cure' PTSD
April 29, 2010
4/29/10 Drummond, Wired, Military Wants To Super-Charge Troop Smarts
4/29/10 Keim, WIred, What Cuba Can Teach Us About Health Care
April 28, 2010
4/28/10 Lochead, SF Chron, Organic, Small Farmers Fret over FDA Regulation
4/28/10 Girion, LAT, WellPoint and Blue Shield of Calif. to stop dropping sick policyholders
April 27, 2010
4/27/10 Stargis, Facing South, Details Emerge on Study of Cancer Near US Nuclear Plants
4/27/10 Pringle, Public Record, Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers in the US
4/27/10 Kaiser, Canadian Government Says Canada's G8 Maternal, Child Health Plan Will Not Include Abortion
4/27/10 Hennessy-Fiske, LAT, Free health clinic treats 1,200 patients on opening day
April 26, 2010
4/26/10 Saey, Wired, Mice Make Their Own Morphine
April 24, 2010
4/24/10 Waas, Reuters, WellPoint Routinely Targets Breast Cancer Patients
April 23, 2010
4/23/10 Kaiser, U.S., Other Donors Commit $880M For New World Bank-Hosted Global Food Security Fund
April 22, 2010
4/22/10 Gardner, CNN, Killer fungus seen in Pacific Northwest
April 19, 2010
4/19/10 Rucker, Wp, North Carolina Democrats' votes against health care push labor to form party
4/19/10 Calvan & Reese, SacBee, California's higher hospital costs add to health insurance hikes
April 15, 2010
4/14/10 Claiborne et all, ABC News, Report Says Contaminated Meat Is in Supermarkets
4/15/10 Carney, MoJo, Inside India's Rent-A-Womb Business
April 14, 2010
4/14/10 Keim, Wired, 3-Parent Embryos Could Prevent Disease, But Raise Ethical Issues
April 12, 2010
4/12/10 Godoy, IPS, ENVIRONMENT-NIGER: French State-Owned Company "Poisoning" Poor
April 11, 2010
4/11/10 Guardian, MoD rejecting Gulf war syndrome pension claims, say veterans
April 10, 2010
4/10/10 WSWS, Miners speak on safety violations at Upper Big Branch Mine
April 6, 2010
4/06/10 Allen, ITT, Offshoring Human Drug Trials
April 5, 2010
4/05/10 Richardson, Altenet, What You're Eating Could Make or Break Our Planet -- 7 Principles of a Climate-Friendly Diet
April 1, 2010
4/01/10 Hawkins, MoJo, Another Gulf War Syndrome?
March 31, 2010
3/31/10 Landau, CNN, $250 million for abstinence education not evidence-based, groups say
3/31/10 Pommereau, CSM, What happens when you remove all traffic signs? A German town finds out.
March 29, 2010
3/29/10 AP, Big Pharma Wins Big With Health Care Reform Bill
3/29/10 Hough, Telegraph, Junk food 'as addictive as heroin and smoking'
3/29/10 Schwartz & Pollack, NYT, Judge Invalidates Human Gene Patent
March 28, 2010
3/28/10 Harris, NYT, Scientists Say F.D.A. Ignored Radiation Warnings
3/28/10 Pear, NYT, Coverage Now for Sick Children? Check Fine Print
March 26, 2010
3/26/10 Pollitt, Nation, Q and A with Carole Joffe - sociology of abortion
3/26/10 CNN, Health reform's immediate impact: Your benefits
March 25, 2010
3/25/10 Black, BBC, Big food push urged to avoid global hunger
3/25/10 Barnes, CSM, US healthcare reform is boon for India outsourcing companies
3/25/10 Ivory, Huffington, Nation's Largest Private Water Utility Joins Lawsuit Against Herbicide Maker
3/25/10 Jarvis, Star-Telegram, Crowley newborn with heart defect is denied insurance coverage
March 23, 2010
3/23/10 Burgis, FT, Mining money fails to usher in golden era for Ghana
3/23/10 Puzzunghera, LAT, Senate banking panel OKs sweeping financial overhaul bill
March 22, 2010
3/22/10 Randall, WSWS, An attack on health care in the guise of reform
3/22/10 EDIE, 'Shameful' UK air quality kills 50,000 a year
March 21, 2010
3/21/10 Buncombe, Independent, How the West Poisoned Bangladesh
March 20, 2010
3/20/10 Jones, WSWS, Detroit Medical Center to be sold to for-profit hospital chain
3/20/10 BBC, Lethal landmine legacy from battle of El Alamein
March 19, 2010
3/19/10 Cookson, FT, Doctors use stem cells to rebuild boy's windpipe
March 18, 2010
3/18/10 Schoof, McClatchy, Most Power Plants Still Spewing Toxic Mercury, Report Says
3/18/10 Harris, NYT, Tobacco Rule Proposed in '95 to Go Into Effect
3/18/10 Thomma, McClatchy, Insurance-rate regulation dropped from latest health bill
3/18/10 Solomon, CommonDreams, Zero Public Option + One Mandate = Disaster
March 16, 2010
3/16/10 Frank, TruthOut, Toxic Hanford: A Trip to the B Reactor
3/16/10 Herzenhorn, NYT, Passing Health Care Legislation, Tucked in a Rule
March 15, 2010
3/15/10 Davies, Guardian, Genetic discovery promises healing without scars
March 11, 2010
3/11/10 Ward, BBC, Down on the farm with the robots
March 10, 2010
3/10/10 Sample, Guardian, Genomes of an entire family sequenced in world first
March 8, 2010
3/08/10 Ivory, Huffington, Cities Sue Manufacturer of Weed-Killer Found in Tap Water
3/08/10 Nichols, Nation, Kucinich's Health Reform Dissents Merit Consideration
March 7, 2010
3/07/10 Rubin, LAT, What happens to Haiti when 'the good doctors' leave?
3/07/10 BBC, Azerbaijan's long lifers 'a dying breed'
March 5, 2010
3/05/10 Bowers, OpenLeft, Yes, Congressional Progressives won major public option concessions in the health reform bill
March 4, 2010
3/04/10 Simpson, BBC, The Cost of War: Disturbing Story of Fallujah's Birth Defects
March 3, 2010
3/03/10 Frank, AlterNet, EPA Drastically Underestimates Coal Waste Pollution's Threat to Human and Environmental Health
3/03/10 Zajac & Huffstutter, LAT, Cost of food-borne illnesses is deemed much higher than earlier estimates
March 2, 2010
3/02/10 Pringle, PublicRecord, Paxil Birth Defect Litigation - First Trial A Bust for Glaxo
3/02/10 Calvin, SacBee, Insurance rate hikes fan political firestorm
3/02/10 Crawley, Reuters, Brakes seen key fix; Toyota confronted with memo
3/02/10 Wong, NYT, Officials in China at Odds Over Food Scandal
3/02/10 Siddique, Guardian, Child cocaine treatment rises by more than 65%
3/02/10 BBC, GM potato cleared for EU farming
February 28, 2010
2/28/10 Wainwright, Guardian, Opposition mounts to 'factory farm' plans that will house 8,100 cows
February 24, 2010
2/24/10 Calvin, SacBee, Anthem Blue Cross executives grilled at state Capitol
2/24/10 Tighe, BBC, 'Date-rape drugs' are on the rise, UN warns
February 23, 2010
2/23/10 Jones, ProPublica, Inside the Administration's Deal with the Pharmaceutical Lobby
2/23/10 Vidal, Guardian, Air pollution 'may cause 35,000 premature deaths a year in Britain'
2/23/10 Watts, Guardian, China's soil deterioration may become growing food crisis, adviser claims
February 22, 2010
2/22/10 Schmidt, AP - USA Today, Early, aggressive therapy eyed in blocking AIDS
2/22/10 MacAskill, Guardian, Obama pushes healthcare reform plan to break deadlock
February 19, 2010
2/19/10 McMurray, AP, Beleaguered US to Blow Up Its Chemical Weapons Stockpiles
2/19/10 Barrett, McClatchy, Navy agrees to study impact of Camp Lejeune's toxic water
February 18, 2010
2/18/10 Hebehay, Reuters, New seasonal flu vaccine to contain H1N1 strain
February 17, 2010
2/17/10 Kaiser Foundation, Additional 4M People In Asia Could Fall To 'Extreme Poverty' Level This Year, Report Says
February 15, 2010
2/15/10 Barrett, McClatchy, Marine Base's Ex-Residents, Many Ill, Only Now Learning of Toxic Water
February 9, 2010
2/09/10 Smalheer, Rutland Herald, Tritium Hot Zone Expands Around Vermont Nuclear Plant
2/09/10 Maugh, LAT, Study links mother's age to child's risk of autism
2/09/10 BBC, India suspends first GM food crop on safety grounds
February 8, 2010
2/08/10 Burke, Guardian, India to rule on future of aubergine as country's first genetically modified food
2/08/10 BBC, Africa malaria drugs 'low-grade'
February 7, 2010
2/07/10 Canfield, AP, Even If You're Careful, Drugs Can End up in Water
January 28, 2010
1/28/10 Barrett, McClatchy, Toxins in Camp Lejeune water 30 years ago still a problem
1/28/10 CommonDreams, California Senate Passes Medicare for All Legislation
January 27, 2010
1/27/10 Earthjustice, EPA Requests Feedback on Plan Analyzing Impact of Hazardous Waste on Disadvantaged Communities
January 25, 2010
1/25/10 Andrews, ProPublica, Opportunities for Radiation Errors Increase With Technological Advances
1/25/10 Courson, CNN, Group: Lawsuit could help thousands of veterans with PTSD
January 24, 2010
1/24/10 Richardson, Guardian, The last abortionist
1/23/10 Bogdanich, NYT, Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do Harm
1/24/10 Jowitt, Guardia, Fears over use of chemicals to castrate pigs
January 23, 2010
1/23/10 Chulov, Guardian, Legacy of War: Iraq Littered With High Levels of Nuclear and Dioxin Contamination, Study Finds
January 22, 2010
1/22/10 Hecht, SacBee, Court removes state limit on medical marijuana possession
January 21, 2010
1/21/10 Martin, WSWS, US: Democrats agree on commission to cut Social Security, Medicare
1/20/10 BBC, Video game success may be in the mind, study finds
1/21/10 Palmer, BBC, Magnetic activity in brain 'diagnoses stress disorder'
January 20, 2010
1/20/10 Rubin, LAT, Young people spend 7 hours, 38 minutes a day on TV, video games, computer
January 19, 2010
1/19/10 Helfand, LAT, California limits HMO wait times
1/19/10 BBC, Nano technology tackles heart disease
January 18, 2010
1/18/10 EDIE, Radon killing 20,000 Americans per year
January 17, 2010
1/17/10 Yost, AP, AP Exclusive: Tobacco's Plea - No Big US Payments
January 15, 2010
1/15/10 Arons, RH Reality Check, Senate, House Health Reform Bills Change Abortion Status Quo
1/15/10 Fox, Reuters, Up to 80 million Americans infected with H1N1: CDC
1/15/10 BBC, Most Indian plastic toys are 'toxic'
1/15/10 Grady, NYT, F.D.A. Concerned About Substance in Food Packaging
1/15/10 Saint Louis, NYT, Creams Offering Lighter Skin May Bring Risks
1/15/10 Zajac, LAT, FDA scolds maker of Tylenol for foot-dragging in recall
1/15/10 BBC, Oesophageal cancer cell errors threaten research
January 13, 2010
1/13/10 BBC, Green tea 'may block lung can
January 12, 2010
1/12/10 Jones, SF Chron, Stronger Controls Urged on Chemicals in Water
January 11, 2010
1/11/10 Guardian, Walk yourself fit
1/11/10 BBC, China faces growing gender imbalance
1/11/10 Hancock, Iowa Independent, Study: CAFOs a Threat to Public Health
January 9, 2010
1/09/10 Ames, AlterNet, Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions
January 8, 2010
1/08/10 Frean, Times Online, Monsanto Officer Believes It Is 'on the Verge of a Technology Explosion"
1/08/10 Ananda, TruthOut, Three Approved GMO's Linked to Organ Damage
1/08/10 Greenhouse, NYT, Unions Oppose Possible Health Insurance Tax
January 7, 2010
1/07/10 BBC, Hormones 'govern ability to breastfeed'
1/07/10 Eggen, WP, How interest groups behind health-care legislation are financed is often unclear
1/07/10 Philpott, Island Bucket, Agent Orange rule could cost VA billions
January 6, 2010
1/06/10 Branigan, Guardian, New toxic milk case in China kept secret for a year, reports say
1/06/10 Boseley, Guardian, Care homes forcing elderly to have feeding tubes fitted
January 5, 2010
1/05/10 Reuters, Study turns up 10 autism clusters in California
1/05/10 BBC, Giving up smoking 'raises diabetes risk'
January 4, 2010
1/04/10 BBC, 'One in six' children have difficulty learning to talk
1/04/10 Layton, WP, Use of potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under law
December 30, 2009
12/30/09 Rubin & Winton, LAT, Federal court restricts Taser use by police
December 29, 2009
12/29/09 BBC, Scientists discover how wild mushroom cancer drug works
December 28, 2009
12/28/09 BBC, Disinfectants 'train' superbugs to resist antibiotics
December 27, 2009
12/27/09 BBC, Study blames two genes for aggressive brain cancer
12/27/09 BBC, Minute organs in the ear can alter brain blood flow
12/27/09 Fink, ProPublica, Louisiana Doctors Drafting Guidelines on Access to Critical Care During a Disaster
December 26, 2009
12/26/09 BBC, Anthrax fears over heroin batches
December 24, 2009
12/24/09 Brown, TruthOut, Compulsory Private Health Insurance: Just Another Bailout for the Financial Sector?
12/24/09 Obama, Official Transcript, Here's what Obama said about Senate health care vote
12/24/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, 60+ House Democrats Say "Any" Health Bill With No Public Option Is "Unacceptable"
12/24/09 BBC, Molecules and synapses cement memories, say scientists
December 23, 2009
12/23/09 Fiore & Hook, LAT, Sick, without a safety net
December 21, 2009
12/21/09 Reuters, Sanofi-Aventis Buys Chattem for $1.9 Billion
12/21/09 Zajac, LAT, Familiar faces among health industry lobbyists
12/21/09 Mercer, BBC, Nuclear test land returned to Australian Aborigines
December 19, 2009
12/19/09 Pear, NYT, Negotiating to 60 Votes, Compromise by Compromise
12/19/09 USA Today, Senate Unveils Health Care Compromise
12/19/09 Reuters, Congress must resist health insurance lobby: Obama
12/19/09 Hulse & Pear, NYT, Democrats Say They Clinch Deal on Health Care Overhaul
12/19/09 Dupre, Human Rights Examiner, What are effects of electromagnetic weapons? Human Rights info 101
December 18, 2009
12/18/09 Levine, CNN, Military: Burn pits could cause long-term damage to troops
12/18/09 BBC, CJD victim 'had different gene'
12/18/09 BBC, Anthrax found in Glasgow heroin users
December 17, 2009
12/17/09 Hiltzik, LAT, Biotech bonanza lurks in healthcare reform bills
12/17/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Chemicals Sneak Past Law Regulating Tap Water
12/17/09 Watson, CNN, Rare gender identity defect hits Gaza families
December 15, 2009
12/15/09 Jacobson, Raw Story, 135,000 Uninsured Americans Will Die Before Health Reform Takes Effect, Analysis Finds
12/15/09 Maugh II, LAT, Overuse of CT scans will lead to new cancer deaths, a study shows
12/15/09 Prakash, WSWS, India: Soaring food prices place tens of millions at risk
12/15/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, Colorado Towns Take Extra Measures to Protect Their Water From Gas Drilling
December 14, 2009
12/14/09 Bjerga et al, Deep Journal, Fastest Food Inflation Since Riots Means Milk Up 39%
12/14/09 Leonard, AP, Monsanto Stomps Down Budding Seed Competitors
12/14/09 Walker, Firedog Lake, Insurance Stocks Soar on News of Lieberman's Obstructionism
December 13, 2009
12/13/09 BBC, Body clock link to heart disease
12/13/09 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Sick of swine flu? Toxic algae could be the next big threat
December 12, 2009
12/11/09 Wilson, NYT, Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics
December 11, 2009
12/11/09 Kaiser Daily, Agricultural Alliance Releases Report Calling For Efforts To Prevent Climate Change From Affecting Global Food Security
12/11/09 Leahy, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Coastal Carbon Sinks in Dire Need of Protection
12/11/09 Duncan, AlterNet, Damning New Evidence Raises Concerns About Threats to New York's Water from Gas Drilling
December 10, 2009
12/10/09 Lantigua-Williams, Progressive, Being pregnant not so wonderful for many Latinas and blacks
12/10/09 Kaiser Daily, Global Food Prices Reach 14-Month High, FAO Report Says
12/10/09 Kaiser Daily, ARTs Safe Without Routine Lab Tests, Lancet Study Finds
12/10/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Insurance companies owe 44 Senators who would filibuster public option $91,363,636 each
December 9, 2009
12/08/09 Duhigg, NYT, Millions in US Drink Dirty Water, Records Show
December 8, 2009
12/08/09 Allen, ITT, Death by Privatization
December 6, 2009
12/06/09 CNN, FDA: Texas oysters linked to virus
12/06/09 Independent, New Website Helps Shoppers Avoid GMO Foods
12/06/09 BBC, Obesity gene discovery 'may cut cases blamed on abuse'
12/06/09 BBC, Likely cause of drug-resistant epilepsy revealed
December 5, 2009
12/05/09 Elliott, BBC, Giving old eyes a new lease of life
December 4, 2009
12/04/09 Andrews, ProPublica, U.S. Turns a Blind Eye to Agent Orange
December 3, 2009
12/03/09 Pal, Progressive, 25 years after the world's worst industrial disaster, the suffering continues
12/03/09 WorldFocus, 25 years after Bhopal tragedy, pain and uncertainty linger
December 2, 2009
12/02/09 Al Jazeera, Peru tribe threatened by hepatitis
12/02/09 Gerth, ProPublica, Feds May Tighten Rules on Omniscan, a GE MRI Drug
December 1, 2009
12/01/09 Belluck, NYT, New Hopes on Health Care for American Indians
12/01/09 Harkinson, MoJo, Street Food Fight
12/01/09 Berry, American Mediacal News, Aetna Prepares for Loss of 600,000 Members as it Raises 2010 Prices
November 29, 2009
11/29/09 Whoriskey, WP, Monsanto's dominance draws antitrust inquiry
November 27, 2009
11/27/09 Britt, Live Science, Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food
11/27/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Expiring insurance subsidy imperils laid-off Americans
November 25, 2009
11/25/09 EDIE, Enviro Technology brings water-borne hydrocarbon fingerprinting to UK
11/25/09 Bacon, East Bay Express, The Racial Diversity of Hunger
November 23, 2009
11/23/09 BBC, Morphine 'might spread cancer'
November 22, 2009
11/22/09 Lopez, LAT, The emergency room bill is enough to make you sick
11/22/09 BBC, Rate of facial wounds 'much higher among poorest Scots'
November 21, 2009
11/21/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: Fighting Hunger with Native Crops
11/21/09 BBC, Childhood abuse 'speeds up body's ageing process'
November 20, 2009
11/20/09 Fox, Reuters, Did U.S. make mistake in skipping vaccine additive?
11/20/09 Gregg, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk
11/20/09 Walsh, BBC, Possible spread of Tamiflu resistant swine flu probed
11/20/09 de sousa, Canada.com, Report Says Nuclear Plants Are Poisoning Our Water
11/20/09 Drummond, Wired, Marines Use Brain Scans to Spot PTSD Before the War
November 19, 2009
11/19/09 Seppa, Wired, Malaria Gaining Resistance to Best Available Treatment
11/18/09 Ward, Charleston Gazette, Report Details 'Coal's Assault on Human Health'
11/20/09 Jewitt & Rowe, ProPublica, Pharmaceutical Giant Paid $500,000 to Psychiatrist Who Used Chicago's Poor as Guinea Pigs
11/18/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Senate health care bill covers 94%, costs $849B, reduces deficit by $127B, all over 10 years
11/19/09 Bristow, BBC, Beijing's poor visit illegal clinics
11/19/09 BBC, Reid unveils Senate health bill
November 18, 2009
11/18/09 Perdomo, AlterNet, Stupak Amendment Could End Abortion Coverage -- For Everyone
11/18/09 Reuters, Senate Democrats plan to unveil healthcare bill
11/18/09 Mercimer, MoJo, The Tea Party's Favorite Doctors
November 17, 2009
11/17/09 Johnson, AP, Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes
11/17/09 Gillam, Reuters, Biotech Crops Cause Big Jump in Pesticide Use: Report
11/17/09 Wilson, NYT, Medical Schools Quizzed on Ghostwriting
11/17/09 Kaplan, LAT, Uninsured trauma patients are much more likely to die
11/17/09 Smith, Guardian, Goldminers sue for lung disease payout
November 16, 2009
11/16/09 Aloisi & Flynn, Reuters, Climate deal key to fight "devastating" hunger: U.N.
11/16/09 DeParle, NYT, Hunger in U.S. at a 14-Year High
11/16/09 GRAIN, Worlwide Corporate Control of Agriculture: The New Farm Owners
November 14, 2009
11/14/09 Deen, IPS, US, Somalia Still Opt Out of Children's Treaty
November 13, 2009
11/13/09 Benen, Wa. Monthly, Hypocrisy Watch: RNC Insurance Plan Has Covered Abortions for 18 Years
11/13/09 Cook, Reuters, First U.S. marijuana cafe opens in Portland
11/13/09 Healy, LAT, Food-borne pathogens carry devastating long-term effects
11/13/09 Volsky, Think Progress, Goldman Sachs Report: Watered-Down Senate Health Bill a Windfall for Big Insurance
11/13/09 Drummond, Wired, Darpa: Freeze Soldiers to Save Injured Brains
11/13/09 Hilzenrath, WP, Health insurers could bypass some key reforms
11/13/09 Kaiser Health News, Eastern Kentucky town shows what health legislation can't fix
11/13/09 IRIN, World hunger increases despite growth in food production
11/13/09 Nation, Slide Show: Enemies of Health Reform
November 12, 2009
11/12/09 Bowcott, Guardian, Chemical restraints killing dementia patients
11/12/09 KFF, Almost 200M Undernourished Children Worldwide, Report Says
11/12/09 Fox, Reuters, H1N1 has killed 3,900 Americans: CDC
11/12/09 Sahak, Asia Times, Afghans reap bumper harvest
November 11, 2009
11/11/09 Pilkington, Guardian, 9/11's Delayed Legacy: Cancer for Many of the Rescue Workers
11/11/09 AFP, Lack of Health Care Killed 2,266 US Veterans Last Year: Study
11/11/09 Jewett, ProPublica, Drugmaker Paid Psychiatrist Nearly $500,000 to Promote Antipsychotic, Despite Doubts About Research
11/11/09 Stein, Huffington Post, Pharma Deal With White House on Course to Net Industry Billions
November 10, 2009
11/10/09 Ward, Progressive, Anti-immigrant hysteria blocks black access to health care
November 9, 2009
11/09/09 Teather, Guardian, Ed Miliband to deliver nuclear site assessment reports
11/09/09 Mardell, BBC, The hard fact of healthcare costs
11/09/09 Condon, CBS, Abortion Rights Groups Now Oppose House Health Care Bill
November 8, 2009
11/08/09 Gill, BBC, Early life stress 'changes' genes
11/08/09 bbc, US House backs healthcare reforms
November 7, 2009
11/07/09 Robles, McClatchy, Coal Ash from U.S. Blamed for Dominican Town's Birth Defects
11/07/09 Herzenhorn & Calms, NYT, Abortion Was at Heart of Wrangling
11/07/09 Pear, NYT, Labels and Gay Benefits in Health Bill
11/07/09 Green, OpenLeft, Dems who voted for the Stupak amendment to restrict women's rights.
11/07/09 Bash, CNN, Anti-abortion Democrats get chance to amend health care proposal
11/07/09 Willis, BBC, The US health system 'headache'
November 6, 2009
11/06/09 BBC, DR Congo army 'used aid as bait'
November 5, 2009
11/05/09 Kaiser, Wall Street Journal Examines Big Pharma's 'Growing Interest' In Emerging-Market Vaccine Development, Production
11/05/09 Cobb, AlterNet,
11/05/09 Grim, Huffington Post, Pelosi: Single-Payer Amendment Breaks Obama's Health Care Promise
11/05/09 Keim, Wired, Gene Therapy Halts Fatal Brain Disease
11/05/09 BBC, Amazonian tribe hit by swine flu
11/05/09 Palmer, BBC, Tiny tech sparks cell signal find
11/05/09 AP, Swine flu detected in commercial pigs in Indiana
November 4, 2009
11/05/09 Kaiser, Climate Change Is Biggest Global Health Threat To Children, Report Says
11/04/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Free Markets and H1N1
11/04/09 Shachtman, Wired, 75% of Potential Recruits Too Fat, Too Sickly, Too Dumb to Serve
11/04/09 Reuters, Americans on food stamps tops 36 million, new record
November 3, 2009
11/03/09 Deep Journal, 'Swine Flu -- One of the Most Massive Cover-ups in American History': Dr. Blaylock
11/03/09 Ervin, Progressive, Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows
11/03/09 Zajac, LAT, Consumer group finds elevated BPA levels in range of foods
11/03/09 BBC, Aspirin 'only for heart patients'
November 2, 2009
11/02/09 Barrington, AlterNet, Who's Really Behind Organic Food Brands Like Amy's and Odwalla?
11/02/09 Bhandari, IPS, ENVIRONMENT-AUSTRALIA: Toxic Contaminants: The Other Scourge
11/02/09 BBC, Depression link to processed food
October 31, 2009
10/31/09 Cave, NYT, After Combat, Anguish
10/31/09 Hoeksema, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Hunger and Conflict Go Hand in Hand
October 30, 2009
10/30/09 RIA, Sanity: Venezuela bans toy guns, violent video games
10/30/09 Clark, Guardian, US safety authorities to impose record £52m fine on BP for Texas City failings
10/30/09 Spencer, WSWS, US: Lack of insurance linked to thousands of child deaths
October 29, 2009
10/29/09 Makino, IPS, JAPAN: Death from Overwork Persists Amid Economic Crunch
10/29/09 BBC, Cannabis evidence 'was distorted'
10/29/09 Herszenhorn, NYT, Pelosi Unveils House Health Care Bill
10/29/09 Triggle, BBC, 'Further rise' in swine flu cases
10/29/09 Kaiser Family Foundation, Natural Disasters In India, Philippines Affect Rice Supply, Could Have Global Implications
10/29/09 Rodriguez, KC Star, Vote in Congress offers hope for buyout of Treece, Kan
October 28, 2009
10/28/09 Spencer, WSWS, Child deaths from abuse and neglect rise in the US
10/28/09 Shankman, MoJo, Grading the Public Options That Already Exist
10/28/09 Robertson et al, Guardian, Kenya's drought crisis: Starving to death
October 27, 2009
10/27/09 Press, Nation, Assessing the Opt-Out - A Lesson from the Abortion Debate
October 26, 2009
10/26/09 Lindorff, The Public Record, Pentagon Dirty Bombers: Depleted Uranium in the USA
10/26/09 Lydersen, ITT, Native American Uranium Miners Still Suffer, As Industry Eyes Rebirth
10/26/09 MacGillis, WP, If you build a coverage mandate, will they come?
10/26/09 Fox, Reuters, Healthcare system wastes up to $800 billion a year
10/26/09 Macan-Markar, IPS, TRADE-SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Rice Tariffs Snarl ASEAN Single Market
10/26/09 EDIE, Unlicensed water sellers blamed as cholera claims lives in Kenyan capital
October 25, 2009
10/25/09 Brown, WP, Back where virus started, new scrutiny of pig farming
10/25/09 Hook, LAT, Obama declares swine flu a national emergency
October 24, 2009
10/24/09 Fink, ProPublica, Preparing for a Pandemic, State Health Departments Struggle With Rationing Decisions
10/24/09 Harris, Guardian, Obama declares national emergency as US swine flu deaths hit 1,000
10/24/09 BBC, Evacuation from Puerto Rico fire
October 23, 2009
10/23/09 Melcher, AlterNet, More and More Boys Born With Deformed Genitals -- What's to Blame?
10/23/09 Stein & Laris, WP, Scramble to parcel out H1N1 vaccine
10/23/09 Campbell, Guardian, Scientists study possible health benefits of LSD and ecstacy
October 22, 2009
10/22/09 McConnell, TimesOnline, Four-Year Drought Pushes 23 Million Africans to Brink of Starvation
10/22/09 CNN, Taser makers say don't aim at chest
10/22/09 BBC, Low dose radiation 'harms heart'
10/22/09 Kaiser, U.N. Report Documents How Opium Contributes To Spread of Disease, Deaths
October 20, 2009
10/20/09 Suri, IPS, HEALTH: EU Blocking Medicines for the Poor
10/20/09 BBC, US medical cannabis policy eased
10/20/09 Reuters, Pfizer Profits Rise After Cost Cutting
10/20/09 Morse, ITT, High-Tech vs. Humane Healthcare
October 19, 2009
10/19/09 Lindorff, Public Record, Depleted Uranium: Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan Are No Joke
10/19/09 Schoof, Miami Herald, Report looks at hidden health costs of energy production
October 17, 2009
10/17/09 Nugent, TimesOnline, Food giants cut back on product size but prices remain the same
10/17/09 Oliphant, LAT, Lessons from the Massachusetts healthcare experiment
10/17/09 BBC, US swine flu vaccines 'delayed'
October 16, 2009
10/16/09 Fink, ProPublica, In Flu Pandemic, Florida's Hospitals May Exclude Certain Patients
October 15, 2009
10/15/09 DW-Worlde, Never have so many people suffered from hunger
October 14, 2009
10/14/09 Connolly, WP, Health Insurers Emerge as Obama's Top Foe in Reform Effort
10/14/09 Boseley, Guardian, Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 a year
10/14/09 BBC, Global hunger worsening, warns UN
10/14/09 Guardian, Plight of the honeybee stung by funding from the chemical industry
October 13, 2009
10/13/09 Merchant, AlterNet, US Coal Plants Dump Thousands of Gallons of Waste Into Drinking Water Supplies a Day
10/13/09 Mann, CNN, Young people are at risk for H1N1 complications, studies say
10/13/09 BBC, Bans 'do not cut abortion rate'
October 11, 2009
10/11/09 Templeton, Times Online, Doctors say EU working week is killing patients
October 10, 2009
10/10/09 Stein, WP, H1N1 Deaths Among Youths Rise as Epidemic Spreads
10/10/09 Saul, NYT, The Gift of Life, and Its Price
10/10/09 BBC, Jaw bone created from stem cells
October 9, 2009
10/08/09 NPR, Doctor: Health Insurance Companies Determine Our Fees
10/09/09 Ansel, PSL, U.N. reports massive population drop in Russia
10/09/09 WHDH Boston, Mass. House Approves Bill Allowing Quarantines
10/09/09 Lefler, Wichita Eagle, Lead levels higher in Treece residents
10/09/09 Pollack, NYT, Regular Flu Vaccine Supplies Run Short in Places
10/09/09 BBC, ME virus discovery raises hopes
10/09/09 Furry, Consortium News, Health Insurers Threaten Rate Hikes
October 7, 2009
10/07/09 Avery, News & Observer, Chemical Linked to Aggression in Girls
10/07/09 Tran, Guardian, Activism Works. Kingsnorth Coal Plant Shelved
10/07/09 Wayne, NYT, Thousands of U.S. Homeowners Cite Drywall for Ills
10/07/09 Lightman, McClatchy, Americans cutting back on health care to save money
October 5, 2009
10/05/09 Manak, IPS, HEALTH-AFRICA: If Men Were Dying En Masse...
10/05/09 CNN, Study: More cases of autism in U.S. kids than previously realized
10/05/09 BBC, Key cancer spread gene found
October 4, 2009
10/04/09 Richter, Progressive, Lack of universal health care is a mass killer
10/04/09 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Domestic violence as pre-existing condition? 8 states still allow it
10/04/09 BBC, Men wanted to test contraceptive
October 3, 2009
10/03/09 Lohan, AlterNet, What If Being Fat Is Not Your Fault? America's Obesity Epidemic May Be Fueled by Chemicals in Everyday Products
10/03/09 BBC, Technique can pinpoint tinnitus
October 2, 2009
10/02/09 Leahy, IPS, Food Supply Hangs in the Balance
10/02/09 McGreal, Guardian, Revealed: Millions Spent by Lobby Firms Fighting Obama Health Reforms
October 1, 2009
10/01/09 Levey, LAT, Abortion language heats up healthcare battle
10/01/09 Cohen, CNN, What to know about getting H1N1 vaccine
September 30, 2009
9/30/09 Wiles, MoJo, Navajo Yellowcake Woes Continue
9/30/09 Zito, SF Chron, EPA Wants More Oversight on Chemicals
9/30/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, By 2050, 25m more children will go hungry as climate change leads to food crisis
September 29, 2009
9/29/09 Brown, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilisation?
9/29/09 Boseley & Sturcke, Guardian, Cervical cancer vaccinations postponed
September 28, 2009
9/28/09 Mpaka, IPS, MALAWI: Surplus Crop, But We Are Starving - Farmers
September 27, 2009
9/27/09 Herzenhorn, NYT, Premiums, Penalties and Political Costs
September 26, 2009
2009 Redig, Health Affairs 28:5, Adventures In (Health-Insurance-Claim) Wonderland
September 25, 2009
9/25/09 Banks, LAT, Medical pot proposal erases compassion
9/25/09 Sterns, CNN,
September 24, 2009
9/24/09 Levey & Oliphant, LAT, Mandate minus price controls may increase healthcare costs
September 23, 2009
9/23/09 Egelko, SF Chron, Court Rejects Genetically Modified Sugar Beets
9/23/09 USA Today, Study: Torture damages brain, leading to misinformation
September 21, 2009
9/21/09 Marquez, IPS, LATIN AMERICA: Food Crisis Must Be Regional Priority
September 20, 2009
9/20/09 Klein, WP, You Have No Idea What Health Costs
9/20/09 Asthana, Guardian, Cancer risk casts doubt over future of HRT
9/20/09 Dearen, AP, Vacated Mercury Mines Taint Calif. Waters
9/19/09 Martin, NYT, So Much Food. So Much Hunger.
September 19, 2009
9/19/09 Duhigg, NYT, Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells
9/19/09 Hilzenrath, WP, Acne, Pregnancy Among Disqualifying Conditions
9/19/09 Hamilton & Devlin, TimesOnline, Paying poor foreign women for eggs is 'a kind of prostitution' says fertility expert
9/18/09 Morgan, Reuters, Mosquito-borne African virus a new threat to West
September 18, 2009
9/18/09 Cooney, Boston Globe, Study Finds Lack of Insurance Can Be Lethal
9/18/09 Brewington, Baltimore Sun, Cost of Racial Disparities in Health Care Put at $229 Billion Between 2003, 2006
9/18/09 DemocracyNow, New Study Finds 45,000 Uninsured Die Every Year - interview with researcher
9/18/09 Park, CNN, 45,000 American deaths associated with lack of insurance
9/18/09Willoughby, IntelDaily, The World Seed Conference: Good for Farmers?
September 17, 2009
9/17/09 Rice, Guardian, Almost 4 million Kenyans on food aid as drought deepens
9/17/09 Krauskoph, Reuters, U.S. employers will defray health reform costs: study
9/17/09 Davis, AP, New health proposal is industry's favorite so far
9/17/09 Hiltzik, LAT, U.S. Census Bureau data on the medically uninsured simply can't be denied
September 16, 2009
9/16/09 BBC, Low lead levels harming children
9/16/09 Madsen, IntelDaily, A/H1N1 was reassorted in a lab
9/16/09 Telegraph, Doctors Warn of Global Health Catastrophe Unless Climate Change Is Fixed
September 14, 2009
9/14/09 Pierce, ProPublica, Health Care Reform: Search the Competing Bills--and See What Hoops They Have to Jump Through
9/14/09 Rothschild, Progressive, An Interview with Wendell Potter
9/14/09 BBC, Pakistan food stampede kills many
9/14/09 BBC, Eyewitness: Guatemala food crisis
9/14/09 Allen, BBC, Bed bug infestations 'increasing'
9/14/09 Plaut, BBC, WFP to shut Somalia food centres
September 13, 2009
9/13/09 Saulny, NYT, Welcome to Our Town. Wish We Weren't Here.
9/13/09 BBC, Key gene 'controls disease fight'
9/12/09 Duhigg, NYT, Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Human Suffering
9/13/09 BBC, Antibiotic resistance clue found
9/13/09 Stein, WP, Disaster Plans Being Revised For Swine Flu
September 12, 2009
9/12/09 Leys, TruthOut, Health Care vs. Warfare: The Future Costs of the Afghanistan War
9/12/09 Harrop, TruthOut, Health Reform and Illegal Immigration: The Truth
9/12/09 Sirota, ITT, We've Seen This Trigger Before
9/12/09 Liberto, CNN, Obama: More uninsured than you think
September 11, 2009
9/11/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Another Year, Another Decline in Employer-Based Coverage
9/11/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, EXCLUSIVE: UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser As She Begins Backing Off Pub Option
9/11/09 BBC, World's oldest person dies at 115
9/11/09 Stocking, AP, Survey: Dioxin levels high in Vietnam near US base
9/10/09 Osava, IPS, BRAZIL: Artistic Energy as Antidote to Exclusion
9/11/09 CNN, Top Democrats in Congress soften on public option
September 9, 2009
9/09/09 Gnipati, Wired, Study Reveals How Much Cellphone Radiation You're Getting
9/08/09 Reich, Nation, Robert Reich Explains the Public Option - video
9/09/09 PressTV, Abducting Algerian Children: New Jewish Organ Theft Gang Busted
September 8, 2009
9/08/09 Pierce, ProPublica, Health Care Reform Primer: How Might the Changes Affect You
9/08/09 Benno, PSL, U.S. rates of infant mortality and child poverty soar above other capitalist countries
9/08/09 BBC, Virus linked to prostate tumours
September 5, 2009
9/05/09 Ivory, Huffington, EPA's Failure to Publicize Drinking Water Data Prompts Rethinking in Agency, Congress
September 4, 2009
9/04/09 Adams, Natural News, "Mock-up" pandemic vaccines bypass genuine safety testing, turning population into guinea pigs
9/04/09 Maugh II, LAT, Swine flu more deadly to adolescents than to younger children, officials say
9/04/09 Nicholas & Perkins, LAT, Democrats consider setting 'trigger' for government healthcare
9/04/09 Kendall, IntelDaily, Health Care and the Free Market
September 3, 2009
9/03/09 Agazzi, IPS, NGOs: 'Mini-Ministerial Meeting Should Change WTO Tack on Food,' Promote Food Sovereignty
9/03/09 Erlanger, NYT, UN Guide for Sex Ed Generates Opposition
9/03/09 Reuters, Food stamp list soars past 35 million: USDA
September 2, 2009
9/02/09 Cary, Tri-City Herald, Study: Hanford construction workers were at risk of certain cancers
9/02/09 Chand, BBC, We are all mutants say scientists
9/02/09 Conaway, NPR, BP Makes 'Giant' Oil Discovery. Plus: 'Health Care Rationing Is Good'
September 1, 2009
9/01/09 Smith, MoJo, Looks Great, Less Nutritious?
9/01/09 Apel-Muller, TruthOut, Really Sick Work
9/01/09 Moyers & Mahar, AlterNet, Bill Moyers: Money-Driven Medicine - The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much
9/01/09 Steenhuysen, Reuters, H1N1 unlikely to mutate into 'superbug': U.S. study
9/01/09 Harris, NYT, Document Details Plan to Promote Costly Drug
9/01/09 Griffin & Fitzpatrick, Donor says he got thousands for his kidney
August 31, 2009
8/31/09 Gavin, Politico, Bill Moyers says Obama Must Fight, Not Finesse
August 30, 2009
8/30/09 Chanberlain, Guardian, India's Generation of Children Crippled by Uranium Waste
8/30/09 DW-World, Scientists say deadly mosquito detected in central Europe
August 29, 2009
8/29/09 Dewan, NYT, Clash in Alabama Over Tennessee Coal Ash
August 28, 2009
8/28/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Health Insurance Exec Admits Her Industry Rations Care: "We Believe In Controlling Utilization"
August 27, 2009
8/27/09 Berenson, NYT, Study Finds Radiation Risk for Patients
8/27/09 Steenhuysen, Reuters, In Chicago, swine flu hit children hardest
August 26, 2009
8/26/09 Wong, AP, Most China Organ Transplants Come From Death Row
8/26/09 Williams, Nation, Reverse Nazism and the War on Universal Healthcare
August 25, 2009
8/25/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, EPA: Chemicals Found in Wyo. Drinking Water Might Be From Fracking
8/25/09 Landrau, CNN, Freaky news about your brain may change your mind
8/25/09 EDIE, Household cleaner used on nuclear waste
8/25/09 Ridge, CSM, India's farmers struggle without crucial monsoon rains
August 24, 2009
8/24/09 Gabriel, Natural News Network, PepsiCo Chooses to Continue Using GE Ingredients Despite Evidence of Harm
8/24/09 Hamburger & Geiger, LAT, Healthcare insurers get upper hand
8/24/09 Ott, IntelDaily, The Engineering of 'Pandemics': Vaccine-Induced Disease Epidemic Outbreaks
8/24/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Codex Alimentarius Threatens Human Health
8/24/09 Smith, Guardian, Malawi's child tobacco pickers 'being poisoned by nicotine'
8/24/09 Guardian, 'Dramatic' breakthrough in MS research
8/24/09 BBC, Toyota recalls 690,000 China cars
August 22, 2009
8/22/09 BBC, Chemist warning on drug shortages
August 21, 2009
8/21/09 BBC, India to import food amid drought
August 20, 2009
8/20/09 O'Neill, AlterNet, Are Fish from U.S. Streams and Rivers Safe to Eat? New Reports Finds Widespread Mercury
8/20/09 Dando, Nature, Biologists napping while work militarized
8/20/09 Pritchard, AP, Wastewater from Food Plants Getting into Wells
8/20/09 Lin & Geiger, LAT, Officials may recommend 3 flu shots
8/20/09 USA Today, Biologists urged to watch for neurological weapons
August 19, 2009
8/19/09 Brown & Allen, Politico, Democratic Investigators Target Health Insurers
8/19/09 Rose, TimesOnline, MRSA and Clostridium difficile kill 30,000 over five years
8/19/09 Boseley, Guardian, Stop prescribing killer diabetes drug, scientists warn
August 18, 2009
8/18/09 Landrau, CNN, Ultra-tiny 'bees' target tumors
8/18/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Obama Administration Revives Bush-Era Quarantine Regulations for H1N1 Flu Virus
8/18/09 Nolan, Guardian, Where's your headache at?
8/18/09 Singer, NYT, Senator Moves to Block Medical Ghostwriting
August 17, 2009
8/17/09 Fisher, PublicRecord, Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, Dobbs: The Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse
8/17/09 CNN, Who's behind health care reform ad wars?
8/17/09 Ash, TruthOut, Fight for the Public Option
8/17/09 Lillis, Wa. Independent, GOP Embraces Medicare to Kill Health Care Reform
8/17/09 EDIE, Chemical leak killed 1000s of fish and released mile long poisonous cloud
August 16, 2009
8/16/09 Nichols, Nation, If Obama Discards Public Option, What's Left of Reform?
8/16/09 AP, Sebelius: Public insurance option not essential
August 15, 2009
8/15/09 PublicRecord, GOP Flack Tied To Group Calling For Obama's Death
8/15/09 Friedman, ABCNews, Health Care Stirs Up Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, Customers Boycott Organic Grocery Store
8/15/09 Independent, The Brutal Truth About America's Healthcare
8/15/09 Sirota, ITT, Healthcare's 13 Tyrants
August 14, 2009
8/14/09 Judd, Independent, The Human Timebomb: Why Was He Given Iraq Job?
8/14/09 Neergaard, AP, Scientists find rare gene behind short sleepers
8/14/09 Talev, McClatchy, Who's behind the attacks on a health care overhaul?
8/14/09 WW$ Report, "Swine flu" hits indigenous peoples in Peruvian Amazon
8/14/09 BBC, Drug 'attacks cancer stem cells'
8/14/09 BBC, Healthcare around the world
August 13, 2009
8/13/09 Rutenberg & Calmes, NYT, False 'Death Panel' Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots
8/13/09 Tremayne, OpenLeft, Why a Whole Foods Boycott Might Actually Work to Spur Real Health Care Reform
August 12, 2009
8/12/09 Gilbert, Mid-North Monitor, More Concern Over Monsanto's Penchant for Chemical Spraying
8/12/09 Savin, Nation, Lou Dobbs: Secret Single-Payer Socialist?
8/12/09 Pool & Yoshino, LAT, Super-clinic finds super-need in L.A. region
8/12/09 Keck, CNN, Fears fuel emotional health care protests
8/12/09 BBC, Downturn 'to trigger abuse rise'
8/12/09 Hornick & Quajano, CNN, Whistle-blower: Health care industry engaging in PR tactics
8/12/09 BBC, Bloggers debate British healthcare
August 11, 2009
8/11/09 Beale, BBC, Are US healthcare protests genuine?
8/11/09 Clark, Guardian, 'Evil and Orwellian' - America's Right Turns Its Fire on NHS
8/11/09 Dorschner, Miami Herald, Fear, uncertainty haunt elderly as healthcare critics speak out
8/11/09 Demer, ADN, Murkowski: Don't tell lies about the health-care reform bill
8/11/09 Drum Major Inst., OpenLeft, "Don't let the government get its hands on Medicare!"
8/11/09 BBC, 'Shock' over stroke death rates
August 10, 2009
8/10/09 Fram, AP, Top insurance lobbyist: August key in health drive
8/10/09 Murphy, Extra, Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates
8/10/09 Stoddard, Reuters, U.S. religious left wades into healthcare fight
8/10/09 Rutenberg * Calmes, NYT, White House Adapts to New Playbook in Health Care Debate
8/10/09 Calvin, SacBee, Don't forget us, underinsured say
8/10/09 Lefler, Wichita Eagle, Kansas eliminates state funding for abortion alternatives
8/10/09 De Groot, OpenLeft, Oops, Freedomworks Forgot To Censor Its Comments
8/10/09 Sturke, Guardian, Don't give swine flu drugs to under-12s, says study
8/10/09 Stan, AlterNet, Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America's Dirty Work
8/10/09 Caruso, AP, Immune system cancer found in young 9/11 officers
8/10/09 Folbre, NYT, The Citizenship of the Uninsured
8/10/09 Silva, LAT, Pelosi, Hoyer call disruptions 'un-American'
8/10/09 Chart, OpenLeft, No Cure For Stupid Liars
8/10/09 Benn, Guardian, Environment secretary calls for 'radical rethink' of UK food production
8/10/09 Ghosh, BBC, UK food research 'needs a boost'
8/10/09 BBC, Flu drugs 'unhelpful' in children
August 9, 2009
8/09/09 Public Record, Fight Back Against the Health Insurance Industry's Lies
8/09/09 Moore, NYT, Mentally Ill Offenders Strain Juvenile System
August 8, 2009
8/08/09 Sebert & Spolar, Huffington Post, At Appalachian Fairgrounds, Charity Tries to Fill Gaps in Health Care
8/08/09 Christenson, Charlotte News&observer, Hundreds picket over health-care plan
August 7, 2009
8/07/09 Kirkpatrick, NYT, Obama Reverses Stand on Drug Industry Deal
August 6, 2009
8/06/09 Kirkpatrick, NYT, White House Affirms Deal on Drug Cost
8/06/09 BBC, Iran bans Mecca visits over flu
8/06/09 Murray & Montgomery, WP, Senators Closer To Health Package
8/06/09 Hightower, AlterNet, Hightower: Think Your Food's Organic? Think Again
August 5, 2009
8/05/09 Schmidt, Vancouver Sun, Toxic Chemical Still Found in 'BPA-Free' Bottles
8/05/09 Glouderman, MoJo, Sugar vs. Corn Syrup
8/05/09 Gupta, AlterNet, How We Became a Society of Gluttonous Junk Food Addicts
8/05/09 CNN, Programs to change gays to straights don't work, report says
8/05/09 Hari, Independent, The Hidden Truth Behind Drug Company Profits
8/05/09 Kwak, BaselineScenario, You Do Not Have Health Insurance
August 4, 2009
8/03/09 Drummond, Wired, Military Aims for Instant Repair of Wartime Wounds
August 2, 2009
8/02/09 Edwards, Sunday Herald/UK, Half of All the Fruit & Veg You Buy is Contaminated
8/02/09 Pagano, Independent, Are Wind farms a Health Risk? US Scientist Identifies 'Wind Turbine Syndrome'
8/02/09 Babington, AP, FACT CHECK: Distortions rife in health care debate
8/02/09 Connolly, WP, Obama Trims Sails On Health Reform
August 1, 2009
8/01/09 Smith, Toronto Star, Big Money Fuels Health Care Battle
8/01/09 Finz, SF Chron, Bill Would Restrict Antibiotics in Food Animals
8/01/09 Sirota, ITT, Healthcare Tyranny
8/01/09 Sirota, ITT, Healthcare Tyranny
8/01/09 Pandey, BBC, Jharkhand farmers despair at drought
July 31, 2009
7/31/09 Eggen, WP, Blue Dogs Receive More Health Industry Backing Than Other Democrats
7/31/09 AFP, Pfizer, Nigeria Sign $75 Mln Settlement in Drug Suit: Official
7/31/09 Leopold, Public Record, Pelosi To Allow Floor Vote On Single-Payer Healthcare Plan
7/31/09 Nichols, Nation, Key Committee Backs Better-Than-Expected Health Plan
7/31/09 BBC, 'Dire shortage' at UN food agency
July 30, 2009
7/30/09 Hayes, Nation, Democrats Go to Bat for Big Pharma
July 29, 2009
7/27/09 Swanson, After Downing Street, Nine More Go to Jail for Single Payer
7/29/09 Nichols, Nation, Squeeze Insurance Profiteers, Not Medicare
7/29/09 Grady, NYT, Swine Flu Vaccine Priorities Outlined
7/29/09 Doyle, McClatchy, Food safety bill comes up short in House vote
7/29/09 Leahy, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Monsanto, Dow Stacking the Deck, Critics Say
7/29/09 Jacobs, NYT, Chinese Workers Say Illness Is Real, Not Hysteria
7/29/09 Cooper, NYT, Stimulus Law Bolsters Food Bank Offerings
7/29/09 Holland, AlterNet, How Corporate Media, Sellouts in Congress and Industry Bigs Have Hijacked the Health Care Debate
7/29/09 Deep Journal, Monsanto lobyists to be placed in charge of food safety
July 28, 2009
7/28/09 Lightman & Douglas, McClatchy, Democrats may drop public option from health bill
7/28/09 BBC, Shopaholic died under purchases
July 27, 2009
7/27/09 Swanson, PublicRecord, The Healthcare Option the Media Doesn't Want to Talk About
7/27/09 Espo, AP, Sources: Bipartisan Group Omitting Dem Health Goals
6/27/09 Reuters, H1N1 flu spreads to remote corners of the world: WHO
7/27/09 Goodchild, Countercurrents, Peak Oil And World Food Supplies
7/27/09 Berkes, NPR, Rural Medical Camp Tackles Health Care Gaps
7/27/09 Moyers & Winship, AlterNet, Dangerous Alliance of Health Industry and Right-Wingers Will Stop at Nothing to Derail Progressive Reforms
7/27/09 Renton, Guardian, Hunger bites back
July 26, 2009
7/26/09 Fiore & Levey, LAT, Ted Kennedy is making a final press for universal healthcare, from his sickbed
7/26/09 Harris, Guardian, Whistleblower tells of America's hidden nightmare for its sick poor
7/26/09 Frosch, NYT, Uranium Contamination Haunts Navajo Country
7/26/09 Pear, NYT, Reach of Subsidies Is Critical Issue for Health Plan
7/26/09 Batty, Guardian, Fast-tracked swine flu vaccine will be safe, officials insist
July 25, 2009
7/25/09 Guardian, Catacombs may be used to store bodies of swine flu victims
July 24, 2009
7/24/09 Neergard, AP,
7/22/09 Steffe, Progressive, Why Obama's Public Option Is Defective, and Why We Need Single-Payer.
July 21, 2009
7/21/09 Aucoin, Boston Globe, Not So Fast: The Argument for Slowing Down in Virtually Every Aspect of Life
7/21/09 Eggen, WP, Industry Cash Flowed To Drafters of Reform
7/21/09 Reuters, Obama says healthcare bills need more work
7/21/09 Meikel et al, Guardian, Pregnant women may be advised to stay at home in the autumn, says Donaldson
7/21/09 Kavuma & Ford, Guardian, Fears of food crisis in Katine as famine hits Uganda
7/21/09 BBC, River blindness 'can be beaten'
July 20, 2009
7/20/09 IntelDaily, Dr. Leonard Horowitz Video: Swine Flu engineered in a lab
7/20/09 Sullivan, PNHP, Bait and Switch: How the "Public Option" Was Sold
7/20/09 McGreal, Guardian, Teen pregnancy and disease rates rose sharply during Bush years, agency finds
July 18, 2009
7/18/09 Al Jazeera, UK toxic waste found in Brazil
7/18/09 Kennedy, Newsweek, 'The Cause of My Life.' Inside the fight for universal health care.
July 17, 2009
7/17/09 Keim, Wired, Potential Neurotoxin Could Be in Our Food
7/17/09 Nichols, Nation, A Real Win for Single-Payer Advocates
7/17/09 Maugh, LAT, Swine flu spreading easily through U.S.
7/17/09 Stobbe, AP, Legal immunity set for swine flu vaccine makers
7/16/09 Reuters, H1N1 pandemic spreading too fast to count: WHO
7/17/09 Acosta, CNN, Real battle over health care reform about to begin
July 16, 2009
7/16/09 Grim, HuffingtonPost, Leaked: More Than Fifty House Progressives Privately Commit to Oppose Weak Health Care Bill ... CPC's Whip Count on Public Option
7/16/09 Murray, WP, Obama Eyes The Purse Strings for Medicare
7/16/09 Edemariam, Guardian, Swine flu will be biggest pandemic ever, warns world health chief
July 15, 2009
7/15/09 Carey & Appleby, Kaiser Health News, Health legislation might bar some from public insurance
7/15/09 Keim, Wired, Obama's Computerized Hospital Vision May Have Blind Spot
July 14, 2009
7/14/09 Sturcke, Guardian, Swine flu: health experts 'surprised' by spread of virus in the UK
July 13, 2009
7/13/09 Yamaguchi, SeattlePI, Japan lifts ban on children donating organs
7/13/09 Harris, NYT, Bill Seeks to End Antibiotic Use to Spur Animal Growth
7/13/09 Gregory, BBC, Higher food costs still a concern
July 11, 2009
7/11/09 Blitstein, Miller-McCune, The Hidden Health Toll of Race
July 10, 2009
7/10/09 AFP, Suicides in US Army Rise in First Half of 2009
7/10/09 Taylor & Jalonik, AP, Committee Votes to Reverse Global Gag Rule
July 9, 2009
7/09/09 AP, Ebola found in Philippine pigs for first time
7/09/09 Landreau, CNN, Study: Night owls may benefit from evening strength
July 8, 2009
7/08/09 Vanden Heuval, Nation, Real Health, Real Reform
July 7, 2009
7/07/09 Smith, Progressive, Michael Jackson's death should raise awareness about his skin disease
7/07/09 Jalonick, AP, Government tightening food safety standards
7/07/09 Connolly & Shear, WP, Hospitals Reach Deal With Administration
July 6, 2009
7/06/09 Sack, NYT, Health Co-op Offers Model for Overhaul
July 5, 2009
7/05/09 Johnson, Mercury News, Big Push Under Way for Generic Biotech Drugs
7/05/09 BBC, Coffee 'may reverse Alzheimer's'
July 3, 2009
7/03/09 Kindley & Layton, WP, Purity of Federal 'Organic' Label Is Questioned
7/03/09 Ramer, AP, Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard
July 2, 2009
7/02/09 Reeves, AP, EPA Allows TVA to Dump Spilled Coal Ash in Ala.
7/02/09 Buzzell, AlterNet, Slow Down: How Our Fast-Paced World Is Making Us Sick
7/02/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Senate Already Passed A Budget That Can Pay For A Public Option
7/02/09 BBC, Swine flu 'cannot be contained'
July 1, 2009
7/01/09 Landau, CNN, CDC: U.S. may need 600 million swine flu vaccine doses
7/01/09 Keim, Wired, Salamander Discovery Could Lead to Human Limb Regeneration
7/01/09 Young, CNN, Two anti-smoking drugs to carry mental-health warnings
7/01/09 Diaz, IPS, PARAGUAY: President and Congress Face Off Over Agrochemicals
7/01/09 Hiaasen, Miami Herald, Prescription drug overdose deaths soar in Florida
June 30, 2009
6/30/09 Sutter, CNN, 'Last man standing' at wake for a toxic town
6/30/09 Abelson, NYT, Insured, but Bankrupted by Health Crises
6/30/09 CNN, FDA advisers vote to take Vicodin, Percocet off market
June 29, 2009
6/29/09 Fogerty, Reuters, Crops Face Toxic Timebomb in Warmer World: Study
6/29/09 McFadden, NYT, 3 Men Die in Toxic Well in Queens
6/29/09 Schoof, McClatchy, EPA list shows dangerous coal ash sites found in 10 states
June 28, 2009
6/28/09 Cohen, AP, Did Toxic Chemical in Iraq Sicken GIs?
June 26, 2009
6/26/09 WorldFocus, Cuba provides free health care without the worry
June 25, 2009
6/25/09 Johnson, WSJ, Big Health Firms Underpay Claims
6/25/09 BBC, 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'
June 24, 2009
6/24/09 CNN, Health care battle intensifies for Obama, Congress
6/24/09 Frieden, CNN, Doctors, health care executives accused of Medicare fraud
June 22, 2009
6/22/09 Fox, Reuters, Americans struggle to pay for healthcare: study
6/22/09 Wilson, Bloomberg, Dairy-Cow Kill to Double Milk Price on Biggest Slump Since 1980
6/22/09 Smith, Guardian, African women with HIV 'coerced into sterilisation'
6/22/09 CNN, Likely fallout from cookie-dough illnesses: more than 200 layoffs
June 21, 2009
6/21/09 BBC, MRSA risk from dog and cat bites
6/21/09 Doward, Guardian, Antidepressant use soars as the recession bites
June 20, 2009
6/20/09 Salatin, AlterNet, Taking Down the Corporate Food System Is Simple
6/19/09 Fox, Reuters, CDC sees "something different" with new flu
June 19, 2009
6/19/09 BBC, World hunger 'hits one billion'
June 18, 2009
6/18/09 Grossman, AlterNet, A Chemical Found in Most Consumer Products May Cause Heart Disease in Women
6/18/09 Harris, NYT, F.D.A. Warns Against Use of Popular Cold Remedy
June 17, 2009
6/17/09 CNN, Asbestos cleanup 'emergency' declared in Montana town
June 16, 2009
6/16/09 Girion, LAT, Blue Cross praised employees who dropped sick policyholders, lawmaker says
6/16/09 Zeese, Truthout, Congress to Transfer Hundreds of Billions in Tax Dollars to the Insurance Industry
6/16/09 Bland, SF Weekly, Report says peak oil could cause food shortages in S.F.
June 14, 2009
6/14/09 Gillam, Reuters, Threats, violence seen eroding U.S. abortion rights
June 13, 2009
6/30/09 Kane, WP, Lawmakers Reveal Health-Care Investments
6/13/09 Goldacre, Guardian, Cocaine study that got up the nose of the US
6/13/09 BBC, Swine flu: Country by country
June 12, 2009
6/12/09 Landrau, CNN, Born in male body, Jenny knew early that she was a girl
June 11, 2009
6/11/09 Dininny, AP, Radioactive wasps bug out nuclear cleanup workers
6/11/09 Hellerman, CNN, Swine flu 'not stoppable,' World Health Organization says
6/11/09 Mount, CNN, Army: Suicide rate among soldiers continues on record pace
June 10, 2009
6/10/09 VanEgeren, CapitolTimes, Prison Is Revolving Door for Mentally Ill, Who Don't Get Needed Meds
6/10/09 Hardikar, IPS, INDIA: Farm Suicides Turn Children Into Farmers
June 9, 2009
6/09/9 Goodman, DemocracyNow, Bernie Sanders and Nurses Tell Obama: Embrace Single-Payer Health Care
6/09/09 Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, Illinois Town Sued, Accused of Lying About Carcinogen-Filled Town Water
6/09/09 Nebehay, Reuters, WHO on verge of declaring H1N1 flu pandemic
6/09/09 Wayne, Congressional Quarterly, House Democrats Unveil Health Care Overhaul
June 8, 2009
6/08/09 Pear, NYT, Health Care Spending Disparities Stir a Fight
6/08/09 Nijman, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Thousands March as Food Crisis Deepens
June 7, 2009
6/07/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Child Well-Being Index Foretells Hard Time For Kids
6/07/09 Lightman & Barrett, McClatchy, Senate poised to vote on sweeping FDA tobacco rules
6/07/09 Girion, LAT, Private insurance companies push for 'individual mandate'
June 5, 2009
6/05/09 Werner, AP, Kennedy Bill Would Make Employers Provide Care
6/05/09 Chart, OpenLeft, Reckless Grocery Invasion
6/05/09 Meier & Wilson, NYT, Discredited Research Study Stuns an Ex-Army Doctor's Colleagues
6/05/09 Contreras, San Antonio, Texans Sue KBR, Halliburton Over War-Zone Burn Pits
June 4, 2009
6/04/09 Fox, Reuters, Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies
June 2, 2009
6/02/09 Rosenwald, WP, MedImmune Wins Key Contract To Develop Swine Flu Vaccine
6/02/09 Smith, Telegraph, Swine flu pandemic nearer: WHO
June 1, 2009
6/01/09 Mencimer, MoJo, Is NuvaRing Dangerous?
May 29, 2009
5/29/09 Burns, AlterNet, Why Does Two-Thirds of the World's Population Still Not Have Access to Safe Drinking Water?
5/29/09 Spencer, WSWS, US: Army base ordered on stand-down after multiple suicides
May 28, 2009
5/28/09 BBC, Routine aspirin benefits queried
5/28/09 McGivering, BBC, Fears for new malaria drug resistance
May 27, 2009
5/27/09 Johnson, Boston Globe, Genetics-Based Products Stir Concerns
May 25, 2009
5/25/09 Baker, Truthout, Blue Cross Millionaires Are Scared to Compete With a Public Plan
5/25/09 BBC, Deadly skin cancer cases rising
May 24, 2009
5/24/09 Kratovac, AP, Gender issues worsen Iraq's medical woes
5/24/09 BBC, US Kuwait troops suffer swine flu
5/24/09 Moyers, AlterNet, Bill Moyers: How Can We Expect an Industry That Profits from Disease and Sickness to Police Itself?
May 23, 2009
5/23/09 The Local, Red Bull Cola banned for containing cocaine
May 22, 2009
5/22/09 Wardop, Telegraph, Drinking from Plastic Bottles 'Increases Exposure to Gender-Bending Chemical'
5/22/09 Brown, WP, Study Detects Flu Immunity in Older People
5/22/09 AP, Tobacco Companies Lose Appeal
May 21, 2009
5/21/09 Madsen, Online Journal, The history of the synthetic H1N1 flu virus and a not-so-rosy future
5/21/09 Mason & Olson, AP, Scientists investigate Mexican town's flu mystery
5/21/09 BBC, Wind farm 'kills Taiwanese goats'
May 18, 2009
5/18/09 Falconer, MoJo, Uncle Sam's Human Lab Rats
May 17, 2009
5/17/09 Enders, Miami Herald, South Americans hit by dengue fever epidemic
May 16, 2009
5/16/09 O'Harrow, WP, The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform
5/16/09 Reid, AP, Army fights stigma of mental care
May 15, 2009
5/15/09 Revkin, NYT, Dredging of Pollutants Begins in Hudson
5/15/09 Sirota, ITT, Healthcare's Enigma-In-Chief
5/15/09 Morris, Guardian, Scientists warn of new 'super rats'
May 13, 2009
5/13/09 Nation, Ten Things You Can Do to Fight World Hunger
5/13/09 Boseley, Guardian, Climate change biggest threat to health, doctors say
5/13/09 Landau, CNN, How human genes become patented
5/13/09 AFP, Popular Cereal Is a Drug, US Food Watchdog Says
5/13/09 Gale & Bennett, Bloomberg, Swine Flu May Be Human Error; WHO Investigates Claim
May 12, 2009
5/12/09 CNN, ACLU sues over patents on breast cancer genes
5/12/09 Nebehay, Reuters, Health authorities ready to limit flu drug use
5/11/09 Reuters, High health costs hit women hardest
5/12/09 Nebehay, Reuters, New virus could still mutate, spark pandemic: WHO
5/12/09 Rabin, NYT, Formaldehyde Linked to Cancer Death
5/12/09 BBC, Swine flu could hit one in three
May 11, 2009
5/11/09 Cadman & Caroline, AlterNet, 9 Weight Loss Secrets the Diet Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
5/11/09 BBC, Swine flu found on China mainland
May 9, 2009
5/09/09 Alonso-Zaldivar, AP, Sources: Senators weigh 3 government health plans
May 8, 2009
6/08/09 Johnson, NYT, Chemical Company Is Acquitted in Asbestos Case
5/08/09 Mason, AP, Top flu expert warns of a swine flu-bird flu mix
5/08/09 Beatty, Guardian, British scientists crack swine flu code as world tally rises to 2,384
May 7, 2009
5/07/09 Cohen, CNN, Swine flu, part II: What's in store in the months to come
May 6, 2009
5/06/09 KC TV, Weapon of Choice: Depleted Uranium
5/06/09 BBC, EU and US reach deal in beef row
May 5, 2009
5/05/09 WorldFocus, OUTBREAK: A Worldfocus special report on the H1N1 flu
5/05/09 McGrath, IPS, EGYPT: Viral Time Bomb Set to Explode
5/05/09 Brown, WP, Swine Flu Has Existed Since Sept., Analysis Suggests
May 4, 2009
5/04/09 Smithers, Guardian, Some baby foods less nutritious than a cheeseburger, says report
May 3, 2009
5/03/09 Herbert, AP, Ethanol test for Obama on climate change, science
5/03/09 Partlow & Booth, WP, In Mexico, an Unusual Flu Season Was a Sign of Something Ominous
5/03/09 Cockerham, ADN, Governor supports abortion initiative
5/03/09 Doward, Guardian, Fears of rat plague in UK grow
May 2, 2009
5/02/09 Rossiter, NYT, In a Senegalese Slum, a Building Material Both Primitive and Perilous
May 1, 2009
5/01/09 Rosenberg, alterNet, What's Behind the Epidemic of Family-Killings? Could it Be Anti-Depressants?
5/01/09 Gilliam, Reuters, Farmers fear pigs may get "swine" flu from people
5/01/09 Barrett, McClatchy, Scientists trace ancestry of swine flu virus to 1998 outbreak
5/01/09 Pilkington, Guardian, Obama guard on Mexico trip 'has swine flu'
5/01/09 Carroll & Tuckmann, Guardian, WHO confirms 331 cases of swine flu around world as Mexico shuts down
5/01/09 CNN, Stop using Hydroxycut products, FDA says
April 30, 2009
4/30/09 Stein & Wilgoren, WP, Fort Worth Shutters All Schools; WHO Warns of Likely Pandemic
4/30/09 Kole & Cheng, AP, World takes drastic steps to contain swine flu
4/30/09 CNN, Companies plan for possible swine flu pandemic
4/30/09 Hodgkinson, Guardian, How Californians cope with a state of emergency
4/30/09 Lustgarten, ProPublica, 16 Cattle Drop Dead Near Mysterious Fluid at Gas Drilling Site
April 29, 2009
4/29/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Will NorthCom take over in Swine Flu Outbreak?
4/29/09 ENS, Air Pollution Endangers Lives of Six in Ten Americans
4/29/09 Giordano, Narco News, How "The NAFTA Flu" Exploded
April 28, 2009
4/28/09 Ayres, Times, Mexico outbreak traced to 'manure lagoons' at pig farm
April 27, 2009
4/27/09 Bogan, Times, Radiation From 1960s Nuclear Tests Is Still Hurting My Family
4/27/09 IntelDaily, Video: "Swine Flu Was Cultured In A Laboratory", Dr. John Carlo, Dallas Co. Medical Director says
4/27/09 Ghosh, BBC, Science cash 'to beat food riots'
4/27/09 BBC, Child behaviour 'linked to sleep'
April 26, 2009
4/26/09 Jordans, WP, Swine flu fears prompt quarantine plans, pork bans
4/26/09 Campbell, Guardian, Poor air quality 'killing thousands' in London
4/26/09 McVeigh et al, Guardian, Swine flu: fears of pandemic rise as Mexico death toll reaches 80
April 25, 2009
4/25/09 BBC, Mexico flu 'a potential pandemic'
4/25/09 Philpott, Grist, Swine Flu Outbreak Could Be Linked to Smithfield Factory Farms
April 22, 2009
4/22/09 Freston, AlterNet, 13 Breathtaking Effects of Cutting Back on Meat
4/22/09 Miller, ProPublica, AIG Faces Inquiry Over Medical Care for U.S. Contractors
April 21, 2009
4/21/09 Down et al, AP, AP IMPACT: Tons of released drugs taint US water
April 20, 2009
4/20/09 Lillis, Wa. Independent. As Multiple-Death Shootings Surge, Congress Looks Away
April 19, 2009
4/19/09 Blas, FT, US urges food output boost to avert unrest
4/19/09 Lopez, LAT, A better way of dealing with society's neediest
April 18, 2009
4/18/09 Warrick & Finn, NYT, Psychologists Helped Guide Interrogations
4/18/09 IRIN, GHANA: Plummeting profits drive tomato farmers to suicide
April 17, 2009
4/17/09 Schoof, McClatchy, EPA declares fossil fuel emissions a health threat
4/17/09 Greco, FPIF, Global Food Security Act
April 16, 2009
4/16/09 Eilperin, WP, EPA Will Mandate Tests On Pesticide Chemicals
4/16/09 Schmid, AP, Bacteria found thriving beneath Antarctic glacier
4/16/09 Hartocollis & Davidson, NYT, A Cheap, Fast and Possibly Deadly Route to Beauty
April 14, 2009
4/14/09 BBC, Germany Bans Monsanto's GM Maize
4/14/09 Reuters, Many Americans ignore food recalls
April 13, 2009
4/13/09 Stein, WP, A Possible Step Toward Setting the Biological Clock
4/13/09 NBC, Female Vets Struggling to Get Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
4/13/09 Burke, SMH, New Sofas to Blame for Rash of Allergies
4/13/09 CNN, GM recalling 1.5 million cars over fire fears
April 12, 2009
4/12/09 Hawksley, BBC, City air pollution 'shortens life'
4/12/09 Skoloff, & Burdeau, AP, Chinese drywall poses potential risks
April 11, 2009
4/11/09 Alonso-Zaldivar, AP, No strength in numbers for America's uninsured
April 10, 2009
4/10/09 Olesen, AP, China's birth limits create dangerous gender gap
April 9, 2009
4/09/09 DiMassa & Winton, LAT, College Hospital to pay $1.6 million in homeless dumping settlement
April 8, 2009
4/08/09 Zeidler, Reuters, Some job seekers invest in plastic surgery to compete
4/08/09 Wong, CNN, The bionic body 2.0
4/08/09 BBC, Test 'sheds light on back pain'
April 7, 2009
4/07/09 Stein, AlterNet, Locavore to the Max: How to Forage for Low-Impact, Recession-Proof Food
4/07/09 BBC, 'Sedation link' to birth defects
April 6, 2009
4/06/09 Ritter, AP, Relief from itch seen in nerves; may aid treatment
4/06/09 Wasserman, AlterNet, People Died Because of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident, Why Won't Corporate Media Admit It?
April 5, 2009
4/05/09 Carey, NYT, Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory
April 3, 2009
4/03/09 Sapien, ProPublica, CDC Study Finds Rocket Fuel Chemical in Baby Formula
4/03/09 Stobbe, AP, CDC: Rocket fuel chemical found in baby formula
4/03/09 BBC, Gene defect clue to male pill
April 1, 2009
4/01/09 Johnson, McClatchy, UN: Killer strains of tuberculosis may 'spiral out of control'
4/01/09 BBC, How infection may spark leukaemia
March 31, 2009
3/31/09 Kleinfeld, NYT, Exams of Injured Workers Fuel Mutual Mistrust
3/31/09 NYT, Life Lessons From the Family Dog
3/31/09 Benno, PSL, Heart failure among Black adults 20 times more prevalent
March 30, 2009
3/30/09 Kleinfeld & Greenhouse, NYT, For Injured Workers, a Costly Legal Swamp
3/30/09 AP, FDA says to avoid pistachios amid salmonella scare
3/30/09 Keim, Wired, Poverty Goes Straight to the Brain
3/30/09 Nichols, Nation, Sanders Puts Single-Payer On the Agenda
3/30/09 Richards, MoJo, Out of Mind, Out of Sight
March 28, 2009
3/28/09 Dorschner, Miami Herald, Insurers Shun Those Taking Certain Meds
3/28/09 Stone & Richtel, NYT, Forging a Hot Link to the Farmer Who Grows the Food
3/28/09 Werner, AP, Senate takes on out-of-network insurance issue
March 27, 2009
3/27/09 Blas, Financial Times, Number of Chronically Hungry Tops 1 Billion
3/27/09 Eddy & Stobbe, AP, Experimental vaccine used in Ebola exposure case
3/27/09 AP, Jury finds Kansas doctor not guilty in abortion case
3/27/09 BBC, Medical scan sensitivity boosted
3/27/09 Wilemon, Memphis Daily News, Farmers Worry About Proposed Legislation
3/27/09 Zhang, AP, China: Hand, foot and mouth virus kills 18 kids
3/27/09 BBC, Medics 'can mend a broken heart'
March 26, 2009
3/26/09 BBC, Ex-DEA agent: Treatment, education key in drug war
3/26/09 Dowd, Reuters, Police taser use down in Canada amid safety fears
March 25, 2009
3/25/09 Mendoza, AP, Study: Range of Pharmaceuticals in Fish Across US
3/25/09 Trueman, OpenLeft, Fedco Seeds: The David To Monsanto's Goliath
3/25/09 Park, CNN, 'Miracle fruit' turns sour things sweet
March 24, 2009
3/24/09 BBC, HIV-TB 'double trouble' warning
3/24/09 Pear, NYT, Insurers Ease Stance on Pre-Existing Conditions
March 23, 2009
3/23/09 IntelDaily, Killer Chemtrails: The Shocking Truth (Video)
3/23/09 Abedin, CNN, Study: Blacks suffer heart failure at alarmingly high rates
3/23/09 BBC, Cancer drug 'fuels tumour growth'
March 20, 2009
3/20/09 Kavanagh, CNN, Turning toxic coal ash into bridges, buildings
March 19, 2009
3/19/09 BBC, Protein 'behind Alzheimer's fits'
March 18, 2009
3/18/09 Vedantam, WP, A Silenced Drug Study Creates An Uproar
3/18/09 BBC, Strive for '100 steps per minute'
3/18/09 Case, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Ill Migrants Left to Languish Behind Bars
March 17, 2009
3/17/09 Goldman, McClatchy, Veterans assail proposal to have private insurance plans pay for their service ailments
3/17/09 BBC, Failing hospital 'caused deaths'
March 16, 2009
3/16/09 AP, Report says 3 percent in DC have HIV or AIDS
3/16/09 BBC, 'Brain decline' begins at age 27
March 15, 2009
3/15/09 Kocher, Lexington, Jessamine teen's rapid decline stunned family
March 14, 2009
3/14/09 Welz, MoJo, Ethanol's African Landgrab
3/14/09 Lister, TimesOnline, Downturn Could Kill 400,000 Children, Warns Margaret Chan
March 12, 2009
3/12/09 Alonso-Zaldivar, AP, Report: US on short end of health care 'value gap'
3/12/09 Jolly & Pollack, NYT, Roche Agrees to Buy Genentech for $46.8 Billion
March 11, 2009
3/11/09 Freeman, Guardian, This shoe ain't made for walking
3/11/09 Campbell, Guardian, Ten wasted years: UN drug strategy a failure, reveals damning report
3/11/09 Penny, Guardian, An aching hunger
3/11/09 O'Hara, Guardian, Inequality is bad for your health
3/11/09 Sazbo & Appleby, USA Today, 21% of Americans Scramble to Pay Medical, Drug Bills
3/11/09 Beamish, AP, INSIDE WASHINGTON: Probe finds health risks missed
3/11/09 Rosenberg, IntelDaily, Forest Labs and AstraZeneca Sleazy Science Revealed
3/11/09 Byrne, IntelDaily, Pentagon knowingly exposed troops to cancer-causing chemicals, document shows
3/11/09 Brimacombe, BBC, Zambia's agri-business powerhouse
March 10, 2009
3/10/09 BBC, Russia now 'top heroin consumer'
3/10/09 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index
3/10/09 Secrecy News, Germs, Viruses, and Secrets
3/10/09 Kachingwe, IPS, ZAMBIA: Food Vouchers Not Enough to Fight Hunger
March 9, 2009
3/09/09 Dorschner, Miami Herald, Consumers Curb Medical Treatment to Save Money
3/09/09 BBC, Drug firms in $41bn giant merger
March 8, 2009
3/08/09 Weingarten, WP, Fatal Distraction
March 7, 2009
3/07/09 Rovira, PSL, Suicides spread as economic crisis deepens
3/07/09 Faul, AP, Traumatized child soldiers return home in Congo
3/07/09 Goodman, CNN, Woman dies from mad cow disease in Spain
March 6, 2009
3/06/09 Shaughnessy & Starr, CNN, Generals share their experience with PTSD
3/06/09 Park, CNN, Why we're sleeping less
3/06/09 Ghouri, BBC, Medical waste scandal scars Gujarat
3/06/09 Kaplan, LAT, Cancer threat removed from stem cells, scientists say
March 5, 2009
3/04/09 Miller & Reeve, Times Online, 10 Things We Didn't Know About Food
3/05/09 Moss & Martin, NYT, Food Problems Elude Private Inspectors
3/05/09 Levine, CNN, Army reports another month of high suspected suicides
March 4, 2009
3/04/09 Fox, Reuters, Common ingredient offers AIDS protection
3/04/09 Dunham, Reuters, In past 2 years, 87 million in U.S. went uninsured
3/04/09 Fink, ProPublica, Study Links Poorer Hospital Care to Racial Segregation
3/04/09 Maze, Army Times, 16,000 Unopened Claims Letters Hidden at VA Offices
3/04/09 Simanowitz, ITT, Blue People, Yellowcake
3/04/09 Boudreau & Bronstein, CNN, Poor wiring endangers troops in Afghanistan, contractors say
3/04/09 Natural News, Morgellons: Terrifying New Disease Reaching Pandemic Status
March 3, 2009
3/03/09 Pierce, ProPublica, Diagnosing the New Health Czar's Industry Ties
3/03/09 BBC, TV linked to asthma risk doubling
March 2, 2009
3/02/09 Norton, Wired, Rewiring the Brain: Inside the New Science of Neuroengineering
3/02/09 Kay, SF Chron, 'We're Like a Katrina Without the Flood': Residents Fight Toxic Legacy
3/02/09 AP, No Justice for Victims of Agent Orange
3/02/09 Wilson, NYT, Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary
3/02/09 Rincon, BBC, US nuclear relic found in bottle
March 1, 2009
3/01/09 Sayer, Mother earth News, The Hidden Link Between Factory Farms and Human Illness
February 28, 2009
2/28/09 Pifer-Bixler, CNN, No job, no insurance -- Now what?
February 27, 2009
2/27/09 Young, CNN, White House set to reverse health care conscience clause
February 25, 2009
2/25/09 Avery & Volmer, FDA ignored debris in syringes
2/25/09 BBC, Long hours link to dementia risk
February 24, 2009
2/24/09 Avery, Charlotte Observer, Tainted syringes killed five people
2/24/09 Facing South, Is the Army covering up KBR's poisoning of U.S. soldiers?
2/24/09 Alonso-Zalvidar, AP, Health care costs to top $8,000 per person
2/24/09 Murphy, LAT, 'Secret' was deadly for Montana town saturated in asbestos, prosecutors say
2/24/09 Deen & Young-Gon, IPS, Sanitation Crisis Runs Deep in Africa, Asia
February 23, 2009
2/23/09 Tanner, AP, Calcium tied to lower cancer risk in older people
2/23/09 Becker, IntelDaily, Food industry 'self-regulation' behind salmonella epidemic
2/23/09 CNN, China: 70 ill from tainted pig organs
2/23/09 BBC, Child abuse 'alters stress gene'
February 22, 2009
2/22/09 BBC, Warning over child ear infections
February 21, 2009
2/21/09 Burnett, IPS, Fighting for the Right to Fish
February 20, 2009
2/20/09 Kaunda, IPS, ZAMBIA: Corruption in Water Sector Makes Clean Water A Pipedream
2/20/09 Guardian, Warning! Eating books could seriously damage your health
February 19, 2009
2/19/09 Leahy, IPS, HEALTH: Warmer Climate Gives Malaria New Hunting Grounds
February 18, 2009
2/18/09 Milmo, Independent, Dumped in Africa: Britain's Toxic Waste
2/18/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Watchdog: Bush FDA decision put patients in danger
February 17, 2009
2/17/09 Leonnig, WP, Father Sues D.C. Water Utility Over Lead Warnings
2/17/09 Girion, LAT, Insurers exceed state-issued rates for last-resort health coverage
February 15, 2009
2/15/09 Layton & Miroff, WP, The Rise And Fall of A Peanut Empire
2/15/09 BBC, Pollution link to asthma in womb
February 13, 2009
2/13/09 Martin, NYT, Peanut Corporation of America to Liquidate
February 12, 2009
2/12/09 ANdrews, ProPublica, Quick Picks: Army Under Fire for PTSD Care and Troop Chemical Exposure in Iraq
2/12/09 Thompson, ProPublica, Justice Department Sat on Youth Suicide Study
2/12/09 ENS, Just Breathing in Katrina-Flooded Homes Poses Health Risks
2/12/09 AP, Court says measles vaccine not to blame for autism
2/12/09 Stengle, WP, TX officials order Peanut Corp. to recall products
2/12/09 CNN, Dead rodents, excrement in peanut processor lead to recall
February 11, 2009
2/11/09 IntelDaily, Nearly 1 billion starving in world
2/11/09 CNN, Peanut company officials spurn Congress' questions
2/11/09 Freking, AP, Ranks of uninsured to grow
February 10, 2009
2/10/09 Borenstein & Blackledge, AP, US relies on states for food safety inspections
February 9, 2009
2/09/09 Reid, Global Monitor, Support for Private Medicine Wanes in U.S.
2/09/09 Woodward, AP, Cracking the case of the poison processed peanuts
February 8, 2009
2/04/08 Steenhuysen, Reuters, Doctors: Under the Drug Industry's Influence?
2/08/09 Moss, NYT, Peanut Case Shows Holes in Safety Net
2/08/09 BBC, The banker and the biologist e. coli and Genetech
February 7, 2009
2/07/09 Hopkins, ADN, Debate persists about long-term effects of Exxon Valdez oil spill
February 6, 2009
2/06/09 Keim, Wired, Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains
2/06/09 Pollack, NYT, F.D.A. Approves Drug From Gene-Altered Goats
2/06/09 CNN, Medicine man says he can cure AIDS
2/06/09 CNN, FDA: Peanut plant knew product was tainted with salmonella
2/06/09 BBC, Nigeria baby poison deaths rise
February 5, 2009
2/05/09 Oliver, Guardian, A guide on how to eat your way to a healthy mind and body
2/05/09 Levey, LAT, Obama signs expansion of children's health insurance
2/05/09 CNN, FEMA food kits may contain tainted peanut butter
2/05/09 CNN, Teen attempts suicide to give liver to dying father
February 4, 2009
2/04/09 BBC, Pulse rate clue to heart attacks
2/04/09 Telegraph, World's youngest sex-change operation
February 3, 2009
2/03/09 Relyea, Belingham Herald, Nationwide shortage of popular painkiller affects Whatcom County
2/03/09 Rosenberg, AlterNet, Big Pharma Gone Wild
February 2, 2009
2/02/09 Macalister, Guardian, We can't check everything, admits atomic safety chief after 14-year leak
2/02/09 Demick, LAT, China blames pollution for surge in birth defects
2/02/09 CNN, Enoki mushrooms from Phillips Farms recalled
February 1, 2009
2/01/09 Adams, McClatchy, Late move on drugs by Bush FDA could be dangerous
2/01/09 BBC, Cancer protection secret revealed
2/01/09 Adams, McClatchy, Late Move on Drugs by Bush FDA Could Be Dangerous
2/01/09 BBC, Cancer protection secret revealed
January 31, 2009
1/31/09 Rowe, Wired, Amazing Chemicals Invented by Nature, Rebuilt in Lab
1/31/09 BBC, US to run peanut salmonella probe
1/31/09 BBC, Nigerians can sue US drugs firm
January 30, 2009
1/30/09 AP, FDA panel recommends ban on the painkiller Darvon
January 29, 2009
1/29/09 CNN, Nearly 2,000 people warned of possible beryllium exposure
1/29/09 CNN, Army to report record number of suicides
1/29/09 McGreal, Guardian, Zimbabwe's Starving Millions Face Halving of Rations as UN Cash Dries Up
1/29/09 Harris & Belluck, NYT, New Look at Food Safety After Peanut Tainting
January 28, 2009
1/28/09 Reuters, Plant Shipped Tainted Products, F.D.A. Says
January 27, 2009
1/27/09 Reuters, Studies Find Mercury in Much US Corn Syrup
January 26, 2009
1/26/09 Loyn, BBC, UN debates global food cost rise
1/26/09 BBC, Sex drive link to prostate cancer
January 25, 2009
1/25/09 Mason, AP, World's highest drug levels entering India stream
January 24, 2009
1/24/09 Greenwell, WP, Activists Seek New ways to Get Food to 35 Million
January 23, 2009
1/23/09 Park, CNN, Rare sickness kills child; officials urge vaccination
1/23/09 Harden, WP, Japan Works Hard to Help Immigrants Find Jobs
1/23/09 Reuters, Obama removes restrictions on abortion funding
1/23/09 Nebehay, Reuters, Red Cross: Zimbabwe Cholera Epidemic Could Top 60,000
January 22, 2009
1/22/09 Reuters, Report cites FDA's weaknesses over drugs, devices
1/22/09 Maugh, LAT, Cleaner air, longer life: Study provides evidence
1/22/09 RIA Novosti, China sentences two to death over melamine milk
1/22/09 de Tarczyniski, IPS, HEALTH-AUSTRALIA: Fighting Dengue With Bacterial Ally
January 21, 2009
1/21/09 Zavis, LAT, Federal regulators identify new problems at UCI hospital
1/20/09 Jackson, BBC, Cold War in paradise: how British troops faced nuclear tests
January 20, 2009
1/20/09 Johnson, NYT, Trials for Parents Who Chose Faith Over Medicine
January 19, 2009
1/19/09 Beech, St. Catherine's Standard, Scientist Issues Genetic Food Warning
1/19/09 Tanner, AP, MRSA rising in kids' ear, nose, throat infections
1/19/09 Malveaux, CNN, Sources: Obama may quickly reverse abortion policy
1/19/09 Mannak, IPS, AFRICA: Climate Change Threatens Food Security
1/19/09 Klein, ITT, Which Way to Universal Healthcare?
January 18, 2009
1/18/09 CNN, China confirms girl infected with bird flu
January 16, 2009
1/16/09 Fox, Reuters, Report shows U.S. only half ready for flu pandemic
1/16/09 EDIE, Coal ash dumping 'poisoning water supplies'
January 15, 2009
1/15/09 Jacobsen, AP, UNICEF: Teen births 5 times deadlier than in 20s
1/15/09 Schoof, McClatchy, Report calls on EPA to ban coal-waste storage in mines
January 14, 2009
1/14/09 Arthur, IPS, HAITI: New Peasant Alliance Demands Action on Food Crisis
January 13, 2009
1/13/09 ENS, Navy Allowed to Kill Whales in Hawaii During Sonar Training
1/13/09 Daly, AP, Gold Mine Wants Court to OK Dumping Waste in Lake
1/13/09 Dunham, Reuters, Sexually transmitted disease rates soar: CDC
1/13/09 Boodman, WP, The Rising Costs of Care And a Failing Economy Drive More Americans Into Medical Debt
1/13/09 BBC, HRT 'can shrink women's brains'
January 12, 2009
1/12/09 Zoroya, USA Today, Army Suicides Rise as Time Spent in Combat Increases
1/12/09 Bryan, IntelDaily, Worst coal ash spill in US history ruins huge area in Tennessee
January 10, 2009
1/10/09 Sample, Guardian, Billions Face Food Shortages, Study Warns
1/10/09 Kaplan, LAT, New old-fashioned drug makers: goats
1/10/09 CNN, Peanut butter recalled amid salmonella outbreak
1/10/09 Henderson & Lister, Times Online, Genetic tests for all - the new approach to preventive medicine
January 8, 2009
1/08/09 McNeil, NYT, Flu Found Resistant to Main Antiviral Drug
1/08/09 Clark, Guardian, The masters of the universe who cannot live with failure
1/08/09 Alonzo-Zaldivar, AP, FDA Scientists Complain to Obama of "Corruption"
1/08/09 Boseley, Guardian, If pandemic strikes, avoid doctor and get a 'flu buddy'
January 7, 2009
1/07/09 Reuters, Salmonella outbreak sickens 388 across U.S.: CDC
1/07/09 Guardian, A prenatal test for autism would deprive the world of future geniuses
1/07/09 AL Jazeera, DR Congo alert over 'Ebola virus'
January 6, 2009
1/06/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Outsourcing Health Care in Texas
1/06/09 Dunham, Reuters, More Americans getting multiple chronic illnesses
1/06/09 Belluck, NYT, Food Dance Gets New Life When Bees Get Cocaine
1/06/09 Belluck, NYT, Food Dance Gets New Life When Bees Get Cocaine
January 5, 2009
1/05/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: Open-Pit Mine Continues to Swallow City
January 2, 2009
1/02/09 BBC, 'Bug' could combat dengue fever
1/02/09 Henderson, Charlotte Observer, Coal ash scrutiny returns
1/02/09 Kavanaugh, AP, Tennessee sludge contains elevated levels of arsenic