2 Points

Breathing New Life Into Healthcare (www.truthdig.com)

Here is a number easily understood by even the math-phobic: Every 1 percent increase in the unemployment rate leads to another 1.1 million Americans becoming uninsured—and causes still another... More

Tags: tmc,healthcare,childrens health insurance,kaiser commission,medicaid

Submitted about 21 hours ago by cdoherty on Healthcare | 0 Comments |

2 Points

Weekly Pulse: Bush awarded medal for combating AIDS? (www.talkingpointsmemo.com)

Monday marked the 20th annual World AIDS Day. And to "commemorate" the occasion, President George W. Bush received a P.E.A.C.E.medal from mega-church Pastor Rick Warren for his work combating the... More

Tags: george bush,aids,world aids day,tmc,healthcare

Submitted 1 day ago by cdoherty on Healthcare | 0 Comments |

1 Points

Let's Raise Happy, Healthy Girls Like the Obama Girls (www.progressive.org)

The Obamas' little girls represent an ideal of childhood that, sadly, too few black children enjoy. It's rare when any two little black girls get a lot of positive attention in the media. But... More

Tags: healh,healthcare,girls,sasha,malia,obama,health,race,black,african american

Submitted 1 day ago by HealthcareNewsLadder on Healthcare | 0 Comments |

3 Points

We Must Maintain Immunization Laws (www.mediaforum.org)

Just 100 years ago when childhood diseases like measles, mumps, and whopping cough were more prevalent, too many children lost their sight, their hearing, their mental aptitude, or worse, their... More

Tags: tmc,american forum,immunization,childhood diseases,healthcare,laws,vaccinations

Submitted 1 day ago by robertharding on Healthcare | 0 Comments |

1 Points

Stem Treatment Restores Woman's Windpipe (www.motherjones.com)

A Spanish women has a new windpipe, thanks to revolutionary developments in stem cell research.

Tags: tmc, health,healthcare,blue marble,mother jones,stem cell,escr,jonathan stein

Submitted 1 day ago by HealthcareNewsLadder on Healthcare | 0 Comments |

1 Points

The EPA's Stalin Era (www.salon.com)

Will Obama be able to undo Bush's toxic and unhealthy environmental deregulation?

Tags: tmc, health,healthcare,environment,epa,rebecca clarren,salon

Submitted 1 day ago by HealthcareNewsLadder on Healthcare | 0 Comments |

1 Points

Mega-Church Pastor Flexes Political Muscle on World AIDS Day (www.rhrealitycheck.org)

A mega-church pastor has the ear of the president and the president elect on AIDS policy. He also wants to convert the developing world to Christianity, one church at a time. Should we worry?

Tags: tmc, health,healthcare,lindsay beyerstein,rh reality,rick warren,peace medal,bush,world aids day,tay wiles,mother jones

Submitted 1 day ago by HealthcareNewsLadder on Healthcare | 0 Comments |

1 Points

Just Say 'No' to Drug Czars (www.motherjones.com)

The "drug czar" position has never worked as intended. Originally proposed as a cabinet-level coordinator of drug policy by Joe Biden in the early 80's, it was a knee-jerk response to growing hysteria... More

Tags: tmc, maia szalavitz,health,healthcare,drug,drug war,drug czar,transition,obama,cabinet,mother jones,blue marble

Submitted 1 day ago by HealthcareNewsLadder on Healthcare | 0 Comments |

1 Points

VIDEO: Do Condoms Work? (www.rhrealitycheck.org)

Debunking the anti-choice myth that condoms don't work to prevent pregnancy or STDs.

Tags: tmc, video,rh reality,health,healthcare,amanda marcotte,marc faletti,sex,birth control

Submitted 1 day ago by HealthcareNewsLadder on Healthcare | 0 Comments |

2 Points

When Evidence Fails (www.prospect.org)

The study cost $130,000,000 and included 42,000 patients. It compared the effectiveness of four types of blood pressure drugs: a calcium channel blocker, an alpha blocker, an ACE inhibitor, and a... More

Tags: tmc,the american prospect,ezra klein,healthcare,health,medicine,hypertension,blood pressure,drugs,medications

Submitted 2 days ago by robertharding on Healthcare | 0 Comments |