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...
08/12/09
On Monday, December 7, delegates from the nation's most prominent direct-care RN organizations will gather in Phoenix for the founding convention of the new 150,000 member National Nurses United, the largest RN union and professional association in U.S. history. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka...
21/09/09
Lots of Americans face medical hurdles on a regular basis due to the complexity of health insurance. Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of health care reform is how it will impact women. Women make 80% of all family health care decisions according to the US Department of Labor. Women’s basic...
