People With Severe Mental Illness Die 15 to 30 Years Before Other Americans

Ilana Novick May 31, 2018 It’s a growing issue that doesn’t receive enough attention. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Occupational Hazards

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Norman Lear: Self-Described ‘Bleeding-Heart Conservative’ (Audio & Transcript)

Staff and Robert Scheer / Truthdig Oct 6, 2017 Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer talks with the television icon in the second installment of a two-part interview. [Transcript added.] Dig deeper ( 18 Min. Read )

Smoking

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Christopher Hitchens: ‘Mortality’

Staff / Truthdig Sep 1, 2012 “Mortality,” Jeff Sharlet writes of the late Christopher Hitchens’ small, posthumously published book of essays, composed while the author was dying of cancer, is death-writing “at its most generous and most human: just another man dying, making a joke and telling a story.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Inactivity Kills More Than Cigarettes

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 18, 2012 Physical inactivity -- defined as less than 150 minutes of moderate exercise each week -- kills 5.3 million people worldwide annually, more than the 5 million who succumb to the dangers of cigarette smoking, researchers at Harvard report. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Werner Herzog Doesn’t Fear Death

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2012 The German filmmaker has spent a career chronicling the struggles of odd heroes, real and imagined. Now approaching his 70th year, Werner Herzog confirms he doesn’t fear the inevitable final cut -- neither for himself nor the human race. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Troubled Times Slash G-8 Aid Pledge

Staff / Truthdig Jun 26, 2010 With the scent of the global financial crisis swimming in their nostrils, G-8 leaders pledged a mere $5 billion in aid to reduce deaths among African mothers and infants, a decrease of 90 percent in the funding promised five years ago at the group's meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Study: Beware of Vitamins

Staff / Truthdig Apr 16, 2008 Health nuts, take heed: A sweeping review of almost 70 scientific studies of the health benefits of vitamins and, in particular, those trendy antioxidants, has found "no convincing evidence" of increased lifespan. In fact, vitamins A, E and beta-carotene could even increase a person's chances of dying prematurely, according to scientists at Copenhagen University. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Unborn Victims of Occupation

Staff / Truthdig Aug 15, 2007 Rampant violence and a curfew that makes nighttime medical aid unrealistic at best are threatening the health of pregnant Iraqi women and their children. Official data on the problem is scarce, but medical and humanitarian workers say childhood and maternal mortality is on the rise. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Has Terrible Infant Mortality Rate

Staff / Truthdig May 11, 2006 America has the second-lowest survival rate for infants in the industrialized world--just above Latvia. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )