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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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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2010

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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