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Poison Pill Slipped Into Indian Health Bill

Pro-life amendment used to derail legislation

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Universal Health Care for Wisconsin?

In late June, the Wisconsin state senate ratified "Healthy Wisconsin," a plan that is "the boldest and most comprehensive health care reform from any state," according to the Progressive States Network

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The Bush Administrations New Target: Uninsured Kids

Fighting against SCHIP is Bush's first salvo in the battle for major health care reform

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Faith Healing with Homeopathy

The half billion people worldwide using homeopathic remedies are playing a dangerous game

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The Iraq War--On Drugs

Wounded U.S. soldiers are being patched up and returned to battle before they are healed. The wounds in… more

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Massachusetts Universal Coverage Bill is No Such Thing

Republican Governor Mitt Romney recently approved a measure that would force Massachussetts residents to pay for health insurance. Will it work or backfire?

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Careless Industry

How corporate America perpetuates the health care crisis

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Contraception in the Crosshairs

In March, Wal-Mart announced that it would carry Emergency Contraception (EC)--commercially sold as Plan B--for the first time… more

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Cancer in a Can

Fifteen years ago the Food and Drug Administration said, "Trust us." Its scientists had found benzene, a known… more

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Globesity en Español

Latin America fights the battle of the bulge

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Victory in the Medicare Drug War?

In 2000, both George Bush and Al Gore promised a Medicare drug benefit if they got elected. Millions… more

vol. 30, iss. 03   

Are Hospitals Hazardous to Your Health?

Margaret Jannetti and David Cohen were victims of a lax and secretive medical system. Both underwent surgery and… more

vol. 30, iss. 03   

Information Is Power

Sometimes it's the small abuses scurrying below radar that reveal how profoundly the Bush administration has changed America… more

vol. 30, iss. 02   

Coal Miners Slaughter

For a couple of klieg-lit days in rainy West Virginia, we were reminded--once again--that the dark and hidden… more

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Let Them Eat Crap

Begin on the sixth floor, third room from the end, swathed in fluorescence: a 60-year-old woman was having… more

vol. 30, iss. 02   

Hello, Youve Got Smallpox

"Armed with a fake e-mail address, a would-be bioterrorist could probably order the building blocks of a deadly… more

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Their Patents or Your Life

Have you heard about that bird flu? The threatened pandemic, should it occur, will kill in a worst-case… more

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The Cannabis War

Supreme Court decides one battle, but activists vow to fight on

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Injuries to All

A human rights report details the gruesome cost of the Bush administration's hostility to workplace safety

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Tainted to the Core

Why conflicts of interest are hazardous to your health

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Chiquitas Children

In the ’70s and ’80s, the banana companies Dole, Del Monte and Chiquita used a carcinogenic pesticide, Nemagon,… more

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GMs Healthcare Double Standard

Bad ideology trumps good business

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The Vultures of Life

It’s apparently not enough for George W. Bush to have taken the words “freedom,” “liberty,” and “democracy,” and… more

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High Times

A Navajo town deals with the ravages of the latest addictive drug, crystal meth.

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Healthcare

Ensuring more uninsured. The number of uninsured Americans grew from 39.8 million in 2000 to 45 million in… more

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Cure a Sick Healthcare System

Universal coverage under National Health Insurance would not increase health costs

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Hawkeyes Eye Mercury

Iowa becomes the first state to ban thimerosal from vaccines

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Dont Breathe Easy

Experts link record rates of inner-city asthma to diminished air quality

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Depleted Morality

The first signs of uranium sickness surface in troops returning from Iraq

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How a Bad Bill Becomes Law

Remember the elementary school lesson “How a Bill Becomes a Law”? Well, George W. Bush and Republican Leadership… more

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Coming to Grief

Like the breeze of late winter, a single word, unspoken, has rippled through the recent funerals of several… more

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How to Fix the Medicare Mess

The Medicare overhaul legislation that Congress passed just before Thanksgiving does too much to help special interests and… more

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Corporate Medicare

The Medicare “reform” bill recently passed by Congress manipulates the cost and quality of health care provided to… more

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Prescription for Privatization

Democrats who supported the dreadful Republican legislation for prescription drug coverage under Medicare, which passed the House and… more

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Smokescreen of Compassion

With much fanfare, President George Bush has committed the United States to fight AIDS. “The suffering in Africa… more

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The Real American Taliban

It is not surprising when The Nation features an article about the Bush administration’s assault on women’s reproductive… more

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