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Health Care
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Pennsylvania Seeks to “Reprioritize” Funding Away From Planned Parenthood
Anti-choice politicians in the state of Pennsylvania are attempting to change the way family planning and health care funds for low income women are allocated, putting Planned Parenthood affiliates …
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The Ills of Money-Driven Medicine
A couple of weeks ago, nine medical specialty societies released a list of 45 medical tests and procedures they believed are significantly overused. On the heels of this announcement …
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Feeding Obesity
Attention foodies: There's a new craze in Cuisine World, and it's going 180 degrees in the opposite direction from the much-publicized healthy-eating movement. It has nothing to do with …
Occupying Different Worlds: NATO and Its Citizens
Author Michael Hastings: The takeaway I got from the protesters was that this money could be better spent at home than on these different foreign policy adventures.
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Hundreds of Protesters Head to Chicago Mayor’s House to Oppose Health Clinic Closures
Hosting NATO will cost the city an estimated $55 million, and health advocates claim only $2-3 million is needed to keep these facilities open.
One System for All: Universal Access to Health Care
(Photo courtesy of Julie Castro)Julie Castro is a young doctor from France, a country that proves that it is possible for a nation to offer quality health care for …
Not in My Backyard! As Local Government Attacks on Women’s Health Increase, Citizens Are Fighting Back
The vicious attacks on women’s health to which we’ve grown so accustomed on the national and state stages are trickling down to the local level, as municipal and county …
The Next Battle in Mythical “Taxpayer-Subsidized Abortions:" Women Seeking Hospital Care Should Be Forced to Report Abortion
Abortions are very common procedures, and are among the safest of any kinds of procedures performed in the United States. But like any medical intervention, from giving birth to …
What Kind of Society Do Americans Want?
Part I – Health Care in the USA On 7 May 2012 a new study came out on healthcare in the United States. Based on research carried out by …
Sex, Drugs and the Rocky Road of HPV Vaccination
As a sexual health researcher, I have followed the saga of HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccination since the early 2000s. In the past few weeks, three news stories recently caught …