Category — Health

Under Republican administration America’s middle class lost health insurance. Continue reading

Insurance industry runs a massive misinformation campaign to block Healthcare Insurance reform. Continue reading

Single-payer healthcare reform gets the foxes out of the henhouse. Medicare is clearly the best system for all Americans. Continue reading

Health Care Reform for Our Security. Continue reading

Medical bills cause 62% of US bankruptcies Continue reading

US is #1 in health care cost but #37 in quality. Continue reading

Honest Americans believe lies about healthcare reform. Continue reading

Human beings are under attack by enemies so numerous and resourceful that we can not possibly survive the onslaught without help. Continue reading

Environmental Defense Fund is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are access to clean air and water, healthy and nourishing food, and flourishing ecosystems. Continue reading

260 to 320 million more people may be affected by malaria as mosquitos move into newly warm areas. . . the spread of water-borne diseases increases…populations are forced to rely on less-clean water sources. . . It is encouraging that U.S. President Barack Obama has made climate change a priority. Continue reading

In 2008, in Afghanistan, The Taliban agreed to a three day ceasefire enabling 14,000 health workers to vaccinate 1.8 million children for Polio. In 2009, health workers will redouble their efforts during the Peace Day celebration and ceasefire. Continue reading

Swine Flu started in a small Mexican village next to an enormous pig feeding factory. Municipal health investigators indicated that flies feeding on tons of untreated pig feces may have transferred the flu to the villagers who died. Could this mean that the deadly strain of this virus is not transferred from human to human? Continue reading

Tar Heel, North Carolina, ground zero for the next Hog Farm to Human pandemic. America’s top pork producer churns out a sea of untreated waste that has destroyed rivers, killed millions of fish and generated one of the largest fines in EPA history. Welcome to the dark side of the other white meat. Continue reading

Compassion in World Farming is working strategically toward a whole food system that is truly kind, caring and honest – kind to animals; caring for the environment and consumer health; and honestly labeled. – Philip Lymbery, Chief Executive. Continue reading

There is no evidence that eating pork gives you swine flu. There is significant evidence that buying meat and produce from livestock feeding factories and industrial farms endangers everybody’s heath. Continue reading

Global Warning and over development stirs up desert dust bowls. The dust darkens the surface of winter snows causing early melt down. This increases the danger of mid summer droughts. Continue reading

The environmental damage caused by mountaintop removal mining across Appalachia has been well documented. But scientists are now beginning to understand that the mining operations’ most lasting damage may be caused by the massive amounts of debris dumped into valley streams. Continue reading

Why Water? Right now, 1.1 billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean and safe drinking water. That’s one in six of us. Who is Charity: Water? Charity: Water is a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Continue reading

America’s rivers, lakes and wells run dry…The Farm Industry Wastes 1/3 of America’s Fresh Water…Freeloaders in the free market…Corporate Pirates Secretly Steal Public Water Works…Economic Democracy is the Answer. Continue reading

North American scientists studying West Nile Virus have shown that more diverse bird populations can help to buffer people against infection. Continue reading

Environment: Why care about red squirrels, tundra, blue beetles or little bluestem grasses? Three reasons, which boil down to self-interest. Continue reading

Diseases are evolving into strains that are far more dangerous and difficult to treat…New strains of tuberculosis, staff and e-coli resist our most powerful antibiotics – subjecting their victims to horrible deaths. Continue reading

Untested, unregulated gas drilling techniques could poison our water supply. Continue reading