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California is first state to legislate deep cuts in wait times to see HMO doctors
Waiting too long for a medical appointment? California will cut wait time to between 10 and 15 days. Unfortunately, it could take nearly a year
Would health care reform help you?
Many obstacles and stumbling blocks remain in the way of health care reform. The House and Senate bills will have to be merged, and then ...Scott Roeder trial: Anti-abortion extremist couldn’t kill the law
Sometimes it feels like normal, law-abiding people have to work to exhaustion just to stay in place. Today was one of those days. A Kansas jury ...
Flesh & Stone coverage of the H1N1 pandemic
By and large, U.S. media has shown a lack of curiosity about the economic and political aspects of the H1N1 drama. The view from out ...
Inequalities: When the Summers of our discontent said XX<XY in math and science
Robert Kuttner is the latest in a series of people calling for the head of Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council, for example ...
H1N1 vaccines available at rock bottom prices in Europe
In a scenario that would have been unimaginable just two months ago, European countries are now scrambling to sell off hundreds of millions of H1N1 ...A common sense approach to evaluating alternative energy
by Peter Maier, PhD, PE Nobody denies that making fires was necessary for mankind to survive, but isn’t it time we start using our acquired knowledge ...
Lead loaded candy recalled in California
What a way to start the new year. One of the lead stories in the Los Angeles Daily News for Jan. 1, 2010, is the ...
EPA not using all technology available to implement the Clean Water Act
by Peter Maier, PhD, PEWhen Congress passed the Clean Water Act (CWA) in 1972 with its goal to eliminate all water pollution by 1985, and ...Health care reform impossible before campaign finance and lobbyist reform
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) knew that his amendment to the Senate leadership's health bill didn’t have a chance. Amendment 2837, introduced Wednesday, was to delete ...
Health Care Reform DOA: Triumph of the Money Party
by Michael Collins Dr. Howard Dean, MD, just said pull the plug on the current health care reform effort. The cure is worse than the disease, ...
The climate change and pollution debate is a dull and crippling bore
Which is the odd man out among pedophile priests, racism, World War ll, an oil-polluted seabird, AIDS and Michael Jackson’s death? The answer is that if ...
The emails and the ‘Danish Leak’ may kill Copenhagen and that is good news
"The debate on climate change does not belong to the political left or right, it is not a playground for scientists and their ideas, and ...
H1N1 France: From vaccine refusal to riot police in just 7 days
The extreme cynicism with which the French considered H1N1 vaccination just one week ago has been replaced by panic and exasperation at not being able ...
HHS panel’s mammogram recommendations slammed
"The (task force) recommends against routine screening mammography in women aged 40 to 49 years." U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, Nov. 17, 2009 "My message to ...
The African population explosion. A taboo subject?
The African continent along with its dependent islands covers over 20 percent of the world’s land area, and now that its population has reached 1 ...
Online poll draws invective comments against H1N1 vaccination of children
An online poll carried in today’s issue of French daily Le Figaro, which tends to draw an informed, educated readership, asks “H1N1: Should we get ...
French perspectives on the health care vote
Well it certainly can’t be said that Europeans aren’t interested in U.S. affairs, and reaction to the healthcare vote has been widespread. It cannot be ...Dem leaders lose control of Frankenstein legislators they recruited for office
The $1.1 billion health care bill passed by the House of Representatives by a close 220-215 on Saturday may be a win for the public ...
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- Scientists comment on the Haiti earthquake
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- Monitoring neurological effects of H1N1 vaccine and other neurology news
- ‘Poisoning attempt’ charges filed against French H1N1 campaign
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- California zealot seeks to ban divorce in the state with ballot proposition
- Public embraces holistic healing, conventional medicine follows
- War is hell on the brain: Doctors map psychological disorders in Gaza and the West Bank
- ‘Poisoning attempt’ charges filed against French H1N1 campaign
- War is hell on the brain: Doctors map psychological disorders in Gaza and the West Bank
- Future aircraft ‘Black Boxes’ will stream data to earth in real time
- France begins controversial nationwide H1N1 vaccinations today
- Natural gas drilling: What we don’t know
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