health

Yuck! What’s on my chicken?

October 23, 2014 By Mike Hall

"USDA's plan will reduce the federal inspection process to a mere rubber stamp." The "USDA has pushed through its dirty chicken rule."

At state park, fight is on to stop mountaintop removal

October 21, 2014 By Blake Skylar

The Kanawha Forest Coalition is desperately fighting a mountaintop removal project just outside of Kanawha State Forest, a state park in Loudendale, West Virginia.

Ebola fear, monitoring ease for some in Dallas

October 20, 2014 By Martin Marchione And Mike Stobbe

Officials said 43 of 48 people on an original watch list have passed the 21-day maximum incubation period for the viral disease and are now in the clear.

Nurses: Ebola threat requires emergency presidential action

October 16, 2014 By Special to People’s World

With concern escalating bout the threat of a wider Ebola outbreak, National Nurses United today called on Obama to "invoke his executive authority."

Nurses say U.S. hospitals not ready to tackle Ebola

October 15, 2014 By Combined Sources

As the Ebola crisis appears to grow more serious, some 4,000 nurses got on a national conference call sponsored by the NNU to discuss the response at their hospitals.