10/05/12
Sunday May 13th is Mother’s Day and the first day of National Women’s Health Week. An impressive coalition of women’s organizations are celebrating by raising awareness about the many benefits women and families have gained from the Affordable Care Act. The new health care...
11/04/12
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Medical devices and medications have the ability to improve your health if they work—or seriously injure or kill you if they are dangerous. We depend on Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists to use their expertise to approve drugs and devices that are safe and...
29/09/11
As the baby boomer generation ages, the way we provide long-term care for older Americans will change with them. A new poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard School of Public Health suggests that most people over the age of 50 are concerned about their care options for...
27/05/11
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June 7th is the anniversary of the 1965 landmark Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut, which affirmed a married couple’s right to use contraceptives and recognized an individual’s right to privacy in family planning matters. The decision paved the way for...
14/01/11
With the shift in power in Congress, health care is once again in the news. Republicans vow to reverse the landmark legislation that strived, for the first time, to give all Americans access to care. Missed in the discussion of dollars, doctors and drugs is the number one way to reduce...
10/11/10
One key safety gap that’s especially relevant on Thanksgiving: Federal regulations allow producers to process poultry in a way that increases the risk of contamination from Salmonella and Campylobacter (CAMP-low-bacter), two dangerous bacteria. At many poultry plants, hundreds of carcasses...
16/09/10
We see it almost daily in the headlines- the U.S. is trying to recover from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Are things getting better or not? Today a set of economic indicators may say yes, tomorrow a new set may muddle the picture. The Obama Administration has been forced...
30/08/10
WASHINGTON – On Thursday, August 26 a broad coalition of organizations hand-delivered the U.S.
11/02/10
On February 9 and 10, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric aired a two-part series on the use of antibiotics in food animal production.
On many industrial farms, food animals are fed low doses of antibiotics over long periods of time in order to speed up growth and compensate for crowded and...
