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By David Sirota — If I told you that government officials possessed ironclad proof that an imminent threat to this nation had the capacity to create a 9/11’s worth of injuries and deaths every year at an annual economic cost of a quarter trillion dollars, ask yourself: Would you say we should do something about it?
Posted on May 16, 2013
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Angelina Jolie made her fortune as one of the most beautiful women in the world, and after having a double mastectomy to prevent against breast cancer, she writes, “I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.”
Posted on May 14, 2013
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This is incredibly sad, outrageous or corrupt, depending on where you sit, but it is being reported that Kathleen Sebelius has been asking health insurers to help fund the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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Fifteen agricultural workers in Oxnard, Calif., lost their jobs after they sought shelter to escape the ash and smoke-filled air from a raging wildfire last week. The strawberry pickers said they left because the smoke interfered with their ability to breathe.
Posted on May 9, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
AARP magazine, which boasts the largest circulation of any periodical in the world, used to focus on injustice, something it now calls “negativity.”
Posted on May 8, 2013
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By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica —
Among other effects, cancer clinics in March began turning away thousands of Medicare patients being treated with expensive chemotherapy drugs, which the clinics say they can no longer afford.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania —
Posted on May 6, 2013
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By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, TomDispatch —
A hidden epidemic is poisoning America. The toxins are in the air we breathe and the water we drink, in the walls of our homes and the furniture within them. The culprit behind this silent killer is lead, vinyl, formaldehyde and thousands more innovations brought to us by the industries that once promised “better living through chemistry.”
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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Cancer, Parkinson’s and infertility—these are just some of the diseases and health problems that a new study says may be linked to heavy use of the world’s most popular herbicide.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Having directed NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies for most of the past four decades, Dr. James E. Hansen retired this month to devote himself to the scientific activism that has brought both awards and catcalls during his long and distinguished career.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Apr 12, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 7, 2013
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Condoms are cheap and effective, but they also diminish sexual pleasure, and that gets in the way of lifesaving.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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Rep. Paul Ryan has figured out a way to balance the budget: Give corporations and wealthy people tax breaks they don’t need while aggressively cutting health and social programs that middle and lower-income Americans do.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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A New York Times report takes an in-depth look at the ways the junk-food industry ensures that you will get hooked on its “convenient” and “inexpensive” products.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
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The same administration that brought you the “Disposition Matrix”—a blueprint for tracking, capturing or killing alleged terrorism suspects—is investing in a decade-long effort to build a comprehensive map of the human brain.
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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By Paul Krassner —
I grew up never knowing that candy was bad and floss was good. Even as an adult, I’m embarrassed to admit, I used a dollar bill to clean between my teeth. Instead, though, I was actually adding bacteria to my mouth, thereby giving a new, literal meaning to the concept of “dirty money.”
Posted on Feb 7, 2013
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Canines have more to do with presidential elections than one might think; the conditions in which alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning was detained were “excessive,” a military judge found; meanwhile, The Associated Press has started selling sponsored tweets on its Twitter feed. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
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Right now the U.S. Census Bureau estimates the world population at 7 billion and growing. Feeding all those people is going to be a challenge and, like it or not, it may involve really disgusting meat jelly.
Posted on Jan 6, 2013
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Setting an alarm clock before you go to bed could be hazardous to your health, according to research that looks at the body’s internal clock.
Posted on Dec 31, 2012
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The secretary of state was admitted to New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Sunday after doctors discovered she had a blood clot related to a concussion she sustained this month.
Posted on Dec 30, 2012
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch —
The gifts you’ve already been given in 2012 include a struggle over the fate of the earth. This is probably not what you asked for, and I wish it were otherwise—but to do good work, to be necessary, to have something to give: These are the true gifts.
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — I think the message of “Amour,” if it may be said to have one, is that love is sometimes—probably rarely—eternal.
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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By Michael Grabell, ProPublica —
After months of congressional pressure, the Transportation Security Administration has agreed to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to explore the health effects of the agency’s X-ray body scanners.
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Throughout the country, health professionals, politicians and health care activists are meeting about how to implement the Affordable Care Act now that it has been upheld by the Supreme Court and President Barack Obama’s re-election.
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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By William Pfaff — In the past, the accusation of WMD possession has been the usual formulation when threatening foreign intervention or an attack.
Posted on Dec 11, 2012
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Consider this a public service announcement: In the state of California alone, from 2009 to 2010, 1,700 people suffered from what the BBC calls “mushroom-related illnesses.” Sadly, people sometimes die, as has just happened at a Northern California retirement home, from mistakenly eating poisonous mushrooms that resemble the edible variety.
Posted on Nov 28, 2012
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The same gene that may be increasing your girth may also be making you happier, according to a new report.
Posted on Nov 20, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — “Flight” is a mildly unsatisfying film, chiefly, I think, because we’ve been here before.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — Of the 11 initiatives before the 2012 California electorate, one drawing perhaps the most attention is Proposition 37, on the labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
Posted on Oct 24, 2012
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Photo by Elvert Barnes (CC-BY-SA)
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
“The best thing about farmers markets is that people talk,” says environmentalist Bill McKibben. “A study found that shoppers at farmers markets had 10 times as many conversations per visit than at supermarkets.”
Posted on Oct 24, 2012
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The candidates have talked a lot about health care this election cycle, but not so much about the actual health of Americans. According to a study by Gallup, adult Americans of just about every age are likelier to be obese today than they were in 2008.
Posted on Oct 24, 2012
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Dario Castillejos, Cagle Cartoons, Dario La Crisis —
Posted on Oct 7, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Dr. Martin Makary blows the whistle on hospital horror stories, Paul Ryan’s “secret” tape, women hand it to Obama and Nato Green says the left will never be happy.
Posted on Sep 30, 2012
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Dr. Martin Makary blows the whistle on hospital horror stories, Paul Ryan’s “secret” tape, women hand it to Obama and Nato Green says the left will never be happy.
Posted on Sep 30, 2012
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last time on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: unconventional recruiting in the military, balancing free speech with cultural sensitivity in the Middle East, how to survive a plague and Robert Scheer on the freeloaders whose votes Mitt Romney is apparently not expecting.
Posted on Sep 24, 2012
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Last time on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: unconventional recruiting in the military, balancing free speech with cultural sensitivity in the Middle East, how to survive a plague and Robert Scheer on the freeloaders whose votes Mitt Romney is apparently not expecting.
Posted on Sep 24, 2012
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Life expectancy for the least-educated Americans has shrunk by four years since 1990, a reminder that social inequality is not just a matter of having fewer things than those who are better off than you.
Posted on Sep 21, 2012
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By David Sirota — Colorado is the frontline in the war on marijuana. Will voters trust that their beer-mogul-turned-governor is actually worried about health and children?
Posted on Sep 21, 2012
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
A wheelchair innovator says the charity model does more harm than good for the 55 million paraplegics in the developing world.
Posted on Sep 19, 2012
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The chemical that helps prevent tooth decay can be found in the tap water of most Americans, but some residents of Portland, Ore., a city that may finally begin adding the stuff to its water supply, strongly oppose the plan.
Posted on Sep 11, 2012
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WebMD, the popular medical and health advice site, was “nailed for servicing Big Pharma” after a 2010 online questionnaire was shown to diagnose depression and suggest “a river of pills” no matter how the quiz was answered. The site has since tried to give itself an “ethical makeover,” but the industry ties remain.
Posted on Aug 30, 2012
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The battle between the city of Los Angeles and medical marijuana advocates is intensifying again after a group representing hundreds of pot shop owners and patients sued the city in an effort to overturn a ban on dispensaries.
Posted on Aug 20, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Some days, I feel I have seen it all. Other days, I just don’t want to get out of bed. Over eight years my family has been hit with lung cancer, brain cancer, strokes and various other medical calamities.
Posted on Aug 3, 2012
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President Obama’s new health care law cuts money used to pay for emergency care for undocumented immigrants, a service that some of the nation’s most hard-pressed hospitals have long been required to provide.
Posted on Jul 27, 2012
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