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President Obama exercises a fluid grip on the levers of power

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Philip Rucker, Peter Wallsten - May. 19 (Comment) - President Obama’s professed ignorance of the targeting of conservatives by one government agency and his support of tracking journalists’ sources by another highlight one of the great paradoxes of his presidency: Sometimes he uses his office as aggressively as anyone who’s held it; other times he seems unacquainted with the work of his own administration. ...

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Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau - May. 19 (Comment) - Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities

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Genetically Modified Democracy: Monsanto and Congress Move to Stomp on States’ Rights

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Ronnie cummins - May. 18 (News Report) - the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) that Monsanto has begun secretly lobbying its Congressional allies to attach one or more “Monsanto Riders” or amendments to the 2013 Farm Bill that would preempt or prohibit states from requiring labels on genetically engineered (GE) foods.

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The Health Toll of Immigration

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By SABRINA TAVERNISE - May. 18 (News Report) - BROWNSVILLE, Tex. — Becoming an American can be bad for your health. A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.

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Kenya launches universal HPV vaccine access to youths

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

africanews.com - By George Okore - May. 18 (News Report) - As the world celebrates the Cervical Cancer Week, Kenya has taken a leap of faith by launching universal distribution of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine, expected to treat cervical cancer- the most dangerous disease among womenfolk worldwide.

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Greek addicts turn to deadly sisha drug as economic crisis deepens

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Helena Smith - May. 17 (News Analysis) - Growing popularity of 'cocaine of the poor' in Athens has overwhelmed public health authorities already under strain Nobody knows which came first: the economic crisis tearing Greece apart or shisha, the drug now known as the "cocaine of the poor".

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Austerity Kills: How Harsh Budget Cuts Increase Suicide, Infant Mortality, HIV Infections

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Alex Kane - May. 13 (Review) - Austerity doesn’t just hurt economies--it contributes to rising suicide rates, infant mortality and H.I.V. infections. That’s the message of a New York Times Op-Ed written by David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu, authors of a new book titled The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills.

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Is Climate Change Fueling a Deadly Disease in California and Other Parched States?

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Tara Lohan - May. 13 (News Report) - If you haven’t heard of valley fever, you’re not alone. Although cases in states like California are rising, public awareness is low and misdiagnoses from doctors are sadly high. The AP reported an 850 percent spike in cases across the country from 1998 to 2011, with California and Arizona being the worst states.

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The Facts Are In and Paul Ryan Is Wrong

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Jonathan Chait - May. 10 (News Analysis) - Changes in the way we think about the world are not “news” in the classic sense — they occur gradually, without discrete events to signal them. But they matter. Two such developments have come together recently, both reported in the New York Times. The f

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Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations Surpass 400 PPM Milestone In May 9 Daily Average

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By James Gerken - May. 10 (News Report) - The milestone, hit on May 9, may be symbolic, notes Climate Central, but manmade CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels continue to rise, bringing greater atmospheric warming and exacerbating the effects of climate change

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Prices Cut for HPV Cervical Cancer Vaccines for Neediest

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. - May. 09 (News Report) - The two companies that make vaccines against cervical cancer announced Thursday that they would cut their prices to the world’s poorest countries below $5 per dose, eventually making it possible for millions of girls to be protected against a major cance

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Who Am I? Why Everything You Know about Your “Self” Is Wrong

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Psychology Today - May. 09 (Opinion) -

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Why Obamacare is oversold

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Robert J. Samuelson - May. 09 (Opinion) - It’s the great moral imperative behind the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”): People should not be denied health care because they can’t afford insurance. Health status and insurance are assumed to be connected, and opponents have often been cast as moral midgets, willing to condemn the uninsured to unnecessary illness or death. The trouble is that health status and insurance are only loosely connected. This suggests that Obamacare may result in more spending and health services but few gains in the public’s ...

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Is Cameron's Britain what we fought for in the war?

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Harry Leslie Smith - May. 09 (Opinion) - At 90 I'm too old to fight those who seek to wreck the civilisation we shed blood, sweat, and tears for in the second world war Every year, the spring rains fall hard and heavy to a parched and hungry earth. Life is reborn from the long slumber of winter. For me the beauty in this annual transformation stings as if I caught my finger on a thorn from a rose. These lengthening days remind me of another time, when I was a young man. Back then the sun's rays were just as warm and sensuous but the splendour of nature being reborn was tainted with death. It was 1945, and Europe was still caught in the dying grasps of a cruel and unforgiving world war . It was a conflict that consumed tens of millions of lives through military battles, air bombardment and pure and simple mass murder. For five years of war, through defeat and bitter struggle, the calendar changed from humid summers to crisp fall days, to the bitterness of winter and then back to the optimism of spring. As clocks in every household ...

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Hospital Prices No Longer Secret As New Data Reveals Bewildering System, Staggering Cost Differences

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jeffrey Young,Chris Kirkham - May. 08 (News Report) - When a patient arrives at Bayonne Hospital Center in New Jersey requiring treatment for the respiratory ailment known as COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, she faces an official price tag of $99,690. Less than 30 miles away in the Bronx, N.Y., the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center charges only $7,044 for the same treatment, according to a massive federal database of national health care costs made public on Wednesday.

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Do Electronic Cigarettes Really Help Smokers Quit?

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Alisa Opar - May. 07 (Special Report) - Everyone knows that cigarettes are bad for you. Yet 45 million Americans smoke , a habit that shaves a decade off life expectancy and causes cancer as well as heart and lung diseases. Nearly 70 percent of smokers want to quit , but despite the deadly consequences, the vast majority of them fail. ...

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How ‘political intelligence’ can come from Congress itself

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jia Lynn Yang, Tom Hamburger, Dina ElBoghdady - May. 07 (Comment) - On the same morning a congressional staffer told investors in a private call that odds were improving for a government decision that would help medical insurers, trading spiked in a major health-care company. ...

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Obstacles for Pregnant Women Seeking Dental Care

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Catherine Saint Louis - May. 07 (Opinion) - Well: Obstacles for Pregnant Women Seeking Dental Care

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Palisades Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down After Water Leaks Into Lake Michigan

Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - May. 06 (News) - Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in southwestern Michigan was taken offline Sunday after operators discovered a leak from a water tank. Although the tank has leaked twice in less than a year, officials say there is no immediate risk. "There is no impact on

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The Hollowing Out of Government

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Robert Reich - May. 05 (Opinion) - OSHA and its state partners have a total of 2,200 inspectors charged with ensuring the safety of over more than 8 million workplaces employing 130 million workers. That comes to about one inspector for every 59,000 American workers. There’s no way it can do its job with so few resources, but OSHA has been systematically hollowed out for the years under Republican administrations and congresses that have despised the agency since its inception. In effect, much of our nation’s worker safety laws and rules have been quietly repealed because there aren’t enough inspectors to enforce them.

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What Health Insurance Doesn’t Do

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By ROSS DOUTHAT - May. 05 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Columnist: What Health Insurance Doesn’t Do

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Prude or prudent? The debate over access to Plan B

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Kathleen Parker - May. 04 (Opinion) - They lost me at the word “women.” As so often happens in contemporary debate, arguments being proffered in support of allowing teenagers as young as 15 (and possibly younger) to buy the “morning-after pill” without adult supervision are false on their premise. ...

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Is a new study of Medicaid a game changer?

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson - May. 03 (Fact Check) - On May 1, 2013, the New England Journal of Medicine published a landmark study with important implications for President Obama’s health care law -- and, in a much less far-reaching way, some of our recent fact-checks. The topic: Medicaid, the government-run health insurance program for the poor. Under Obama’s law, states can get federal dollars to enroll their uninsured residents in Medicaid. Some politicians argue that taking the federal money now leaves the state on the hook for long-term fiscal commitments it can’t afford. On April 8, we fact-checked a claim by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, that went beyond the ... >>More

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Study Finds Health Care Use Rises With Expanded Medicaid

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By ANNIE LOWREY - May. 02 (Research) - Study Finds Health Care Use Rises With Expanded Medicaid

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The nudge unit – has it worked so far?

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - May. 02 (Opinion) - Since 2010 David Cameron's pet project has been tasked with finding ways to improve society's behaviour – and now the 'nudge unit' is going into business by itself. But have its initiatives really worked? When the day comes to write the obituary of this curious coalition, a day that many feel can't come too soon, it won't be "the big society" that it is remembered for creating. It seems unlikely to be "fairness" either. There may, however, be a large section on "the nudge unit", otherwise known as the cabinet office's behavioural insights team . Set up in the summer of 2010 shortly after this government came to office, and well known to be a pet project of David Cameron's, it is essentially a little band of academics looking for ways to run the country better. (There used to be nine of them, but there are now 13, mostly economists and psychologists.) In part, the unit owes its reputation to Cameron, and to its nickname, a reference to the 2008 book Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, ...

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