Tag: Health

Reports: Contraception and the Cost of Culture Wars

Cartoons: Flock This Way

Cartoons: Komen Kerfuffle

Ear to the Ground: Birth Control Recall: Pfizer Warns of Unintended Pregnancies

Ear to the Ground: White House Garden Isn’t Just for Show

Reports: Forget Roe, Try Griswold

Reports: For Once, Let’s Just Leave Iraq Alone

Ear to the Ground: Scientists Make Killer Flu Virus Even Deadlier

Ear to the Ground: FDA Tells Volunteer Sperm Donor to Zip It

Ear to the Ground: Depression May Have Led Runner to Disaster

Reports: China’s Future Up in the Air

Reports: Weapon of Choice

Reports: Below the Safety Net

Reports: Obama’s Catholic Friends and Enemies

Reports: Obama Administration’s War on Pot in California

Reports: The War Against the Poor

Reports: Seven Billion Reasons

Cartoons: Err Obamacare

Reports: 10 Non-Jobs: Career Alternatives in a Broken Economy

Ear to the Ground: California Medical Assn. Says Pot Should Be Legal

Reports: Government by Death Panel

A/V Booth: What a 6-Year-Old Iraqi Girl Would Ask the American Who Shot Her in the Head

Reports: Chris Christie’s Big Problem

Reports: Why You Should Eat Yak Instead of Beef

Reports: University of Hypocrisy

Reports: Texas Medicaid’s Vast and Dangerous Wastefulness

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Act Wins a Battle on Its Way to the Supreme Court

Reports: Obama and Republicans: Champions of Smog

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Deliberately Infected Guatemalans With Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Reports: Why Perry Hates Regulators: They’re Bad for (His) Business

Ear to the Ground: Apple CEO Steve Jobs Resigns

Ear to the Ground: Get Ready for Medicinal MDMA

Reports: The Vegetarian’s Dilemma

Reports: Another Bailout Joins the Goofball Economy

Reports: The Other Israelis

A/V Booth: Circumcision Gadget Is Easier and Safer, but Does It Hurt?

Ear to the Ground: Picturing Climate Change in Your County

Ear to the Ground: Christie, Still Not Running for President, Runs Into a Medical Detour

Ear to the Ground: Cancer Will Not Keep Hugo Chavez From Politics

Ear to the Ground: Study: More U.S. Men Than Women Die of Cancer

Reports: America’s Energy Ethos: Do, Regardless of Harm

Ear to the Ground: Scientists Find the ‘Holy Grail of Heart Research’

Arts and Culture: Robert Kennedy Jr.’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Moment

Cartoons: Possibly Carcinogenic

Reports: No Need to Demagogue the Ryan Plan

Reports: Cutting Kids’ Health Care Will Make Deficits Bigger

Ear to the Ground: New, Killer Strain of E. Coli Crops Up in Europe

Ear to the Ground: Cellphones Might Cause Cancer, Maybe

Ear to the Ground: News Flash: Kids Don’t Need Energy Drinks

Reports: Our Imagination Deficit

Reports: Lance Armstrong Inquisition Is a Waste

Ear to the Ground: Vermont Approves Universal Health Care

Reports: Vermont, the Land of Healthy Firsts

Reports: Will the Courts Wreck Health Care?

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges: The Truth About War

Ear to the Ground: Porn Industry Drags Its Feet on HIV Probe

Ear to the Ground: Sugar: It Could Be Worse Than You Think

Ear to the Ground: Arizona Wants to Punish Bad Health Habits

Ear to the Ground: You Don’t Get to Know the Calorie Count of Your Movie Popcorn

Ear to the Ground: Take Two Walnuts, Jog and Call Me in the Morning

Reports: The Collapse of Globalization

Ear to the Ground: Miracle Food Blues: Bolivia Trades Health for Cash

Ear to the Ground: Millions of Dead Fish Puzzle Californians

Cartoons: Right to Bear Gut

Reports: Who’s Your Nanny?

Ear to the Ground: Breast-Feeding Proposal Under Attack by Tea Party

Reports: Obama’s Budget: Freezing the Poor

Reports: Fight for a World Without Coal

Reports: State Budget Cuts Are Bad for Your Health

Ear to the Ground: Study: Working Moms Making Kids Fatter

Cartoons: Taco Smell

Ear to the Ground: America’s Freshmen Are Really Stressed Out

A/V Booth: Japan Killing 410,000 Chickens Over Bird Flu Fears

Ear to the Ground: Getting High on Bath Salts

Arts and Culture: So Long, Jack LaLanne

Reports: It’s Repeal That’s Ailing

Ear to the Ground: Half of Younger Americans Have Pre-Existing Conditions

Ear to the Ground: Apple’s Personality in Chief Takes Medical Leave

Reports: Health Care and the New Civility

Reports: How We Enable Crimes of Insanity

Ear to the Ground: Stem Cells Blamed for Baldness

Reports: Darrell Issa, Step Away From the Corporations

Reports: Health Care Melodrama

Reports: No Time for ’Tirement’

Ear to the Ground: War Is Toxic

Ear to the Ground: Haiti’s Cholera Death Toll Rising

Ear to the Ground: Farm Animals Hog 80 Percent of U.S. Antibiotics

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks Suspect’s Health Declining

Ear to the Ground: Teen Birthrate Plummets in 2009

Ear to the Ground: Aspirin: Cancer-Fighting Wonder Drug?

Ear to the Ground: Weight Problems Expanding in Europe

Truthdig Podcast: Wendell Potter on ‘Deadly Spin’

Reports: Wendell Potter on ‘Deadly Spin’

Ear to the Ground: Thank You for Not Smoking

Reports: The Health Insurance Industry’s Vendetta Against Michael Moore

Ear to the Ground: Alzheimer’s Strikes Latino-Americans at a Younger Age

Reports: Look Who’s the Decider Now

Ear to the Ground: Study: Women Can Double Up on the Drinks

Ear to the Ground: More Than 1,000 Dead From Cholera Outbreak in Haiti

Ear to the Ground: A Doctor in Your Pocket

Ear to the Ground: Get Ready for the New, Scary Anti-Smoking Packaging

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Bill Might Make ‘the Pill’ Free

Ear to the Ground: Study: Alcohol More Harmful Than Crack

Reports: The GOP’s Triple Play

Ear to the Ground: Glenn Greenwald Is on Collapsing Empire Watch

A/V Booth: Drink Your Way to Peak Fitness

Reports: How Democracy Dies: Lessons From a Master

Reports: Follow Wyoming on Fracking Regs

Reports: The Ideologies Behind the Ideologues

Reports: From Tuskegee to Guatemala Via Nuremberg

Reports: March to Nowhere

Reports: The Cash Cow of Anonymity

Cartoons: McDonald’s Health Care

Ear to the Ground: POM Not So Wonderful?

Reports: What the Pot Legalization Campaign Really Threatens

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Pitches In for Women and Children

Ear to the Ground: Cold Virus Linked to Childhood Obesity

Ear to the Ground: Checking Up on the Millennium Development Goals

Reports: ‘They Kill Alex’

Ear to the Ground: Heavy Drinkers Live Longer Than Nondrinkers

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite (Update)

Reports: Lessons From a Low-Impact Week

Reports: The Billionaire Right-Winger

Reports: Rotten Eggs and Our Broken Democracy

Reports: Boehner’s Bumper-Sticker Politics

Reports: Fox and Friends Trying to Bully and Buy Their Way Back to Power

Reports: ESPN Is the Diva, Favre Is Just an Old Pro With a Bum Ankle

Reports: Shorting Economists: The ‘Experts’ Keep Getting it Wrong

Ear to the Ground: Drink Up, Ladies

Reports: On the Government’s Growing Obsession With Hollywood-Style Command Centers

Arts and Culture: HIV-Positive Pop Star Could Go to Prison

Ear to the Ground: Fishermen Test Troubled Gulf Waters

Ear to the Ground: Ganging Up on Alzheimer’s

Ear to the Ground: Breakthrough Test for Alzheimer’s

Reports: Chris Dodd and the Politics of Joy

Ear to the Ground: You Just Ate a Clone, Guv

Ear to the Ground: Moscow Is Melting

Reports: Quack Medicine on Taxes

Ear to the Ground: Surgery Suggests Cheney Could Be Running Out of Juice

Reports: Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick

Reports: Time Out for Recess Appointments

Reports: A Different Kind of Malaise

Ear to the Ground: The Five-Morning-After Pill?

Reports: The Christian Fascists Are Growing Stronger

Reports: A Warning From Noam Chomsky on the Threat of Elites

Reports: Marijuana Delivery Services Evade Bans on Dispensaries

Ear to the Ground: A One-Shot Treatment for Breast Cancer

Ear to the Ground: WHO Accused of Overstating Swine Flu Threat

Reports: BP’s Mr. Sunshine

Arts and Culture: Another Reason to Lay Off the Cocaine

Reports: This Country Needs a Few Good Communists

Ear to the Ground: Tanning Machines Cause Cancer, Study Finds

Ear to the Ground: Weight Loss Drug Linked to Liver Injury

Ear to the Ground: D.C. Upgrades Its Free Condom Program

Ear to the Ground: Cell Phones, Cancer and You

Reports: Primaries Show Off Dems’ Diversity

Ear to the Ground: Forget Polar Bears, We’re Killing Our Food

Ear to the Ground: Worst Popes Edition

Reports: BP: Billionaire Polluter

Reports: Pitting Worker Against Worker

Ear to the Ground: Prostate Cancer Vaccine Wins OK

Reports: The Good Ol’ Days Before Anesthesia

Reports: The Republican to See Suddenly Won’t Deal

Cartoons: The Bad News

Reports: Why Financial Reform Will Be Easier Than Health Care

Ear to the Ground: Salt Kills, FDA Stalls

Reports: Journalism’s Parasites

Reports: No Way to Treat a Senator

Cartoons: Clear and Pheasant Danger

Reports: One Marine’s ‘Liberty Walk’ for the Rest of Us

Arts and Culture: Tennis Champ Navratilova Says She Has Breast Cancer

Ear to the Ground: Can Seeing an Illness Protect You From It?

Reports: Barack Obama, Meet Sisyphus

Ear to the Ground: Campaign Donors Prefer Democrats

Reports: Obama’s Base Problem

Cartoons: Heartwarming News

Ear to the Ground: History Frowns on Health Care Challenges

Arts and Culture: Chocolate: Good for the Heart?

Reports: Jeremy Scahill Says ‘We’re at a Ground Zero Moment to Save Real Journalism’

Reports: Is America ‘Yearning for Fascism’?

Reports: Let’s Leave This Voting Thing to the Socialists, OK?

Ear to the Ground: Overstatement of the Porcine-tury

Ear to the Ground: Crisis and Climate Could Affect HIV/AIDS Rate

Reports: Are You Afraid to Plan for Your Own Death?

Reports: The Difference Between Liberalism and Progressivism

Ear to the Ground: Conservative Fired for Speaking Truth to Limbaugh?

Reports: Health Care’s New Nullifiers

A/V Booth: Yes We Can / Hell No You Can’t

Ear to the Ground: Noam Chomsky Edition

Reports: Take Two Doses of Caution and Call Me in 2014

Reports: Obama’s Bad Prescription for Indonesia

Ear to the Ground: 14 States Take Health Care Bill to Court

Reports: Will True Conservatives Stand Up?

Ear to the Ground: ‘Health Care Reform Is Law’ Edition

Reports: Tea Party Bigotry Can’t Stop History

Reports: Yes, They Made History

Reports: The Health Care Hindenburg Has Landed

Reports: In Texas, History Isn’t What It Used to Be

A/V Booth: Obama: ‘This Government Still Works’

A/V Booth: Boehner’s ‘Hell No’ Speech

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