Truthout
Public Health
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I Am Not a Camel … but I Do Have Epilepsy
A true global epilepsy campaign must start with each of us making our worlds more friendly to disclosure.
Move to National Electronic Health Records Potentially Risky for LGBT Patients
Digitized health records may be a step forward for improving overall health care, but how will they safely and competently account for the medically and socially marginalized LGBT community?
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Colonialism and the Green Economy: Environmental Justice, Refineries and California’s Cap-and-Trade Program
Fossil fuels will not be phased out, but propped up to maintain their domination.
The Terrorism of Stealth Petrochemicals
Chemistry developed thousands of deleterious substances that now threaten the entire life of the world with deforms, extinction and death.
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Beyond the Chart: Sure, Health Care Deduction Is Huge, but What’s the Return?
Tax expert Ellen Dannin provides an example of how we can look at employer-provided health insurance.
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Sustainable Food Is a Full-Time Job, Campus Cooks Say
A job is not sustainable if it can't provide a healthy future and a living wage.
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What Happened After a Nation Methodically Murdered Its Schizophrenics? Rethinking Mental Illness and Genetics
If serious mental illnesses are highly heritable, wouldn't the sterilization and murder of such people diminish their prevalence?
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How to Stop the Next Pandemic: End Factory Farming
Is our national habit of eating dead animals dragging us closer and closer to a flu pandemic that could kill tens of millions of Americans?
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Corporations Spread the Flu
The US is the only developed nation in the entire world that doesn't guarantee paid sick leave to its workers.
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Former Oil Executive, Doctors and Scientists Urge Obama to Wait on Fracking Exports Plan
For the first time ever, the US has the ability to become a major exporter of natural gas, courtesy of the fracking boom.