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Federal judge halts in-home service cuts

October 20, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

Low-income seniors and people with disabilities won a round Oct. 19 in their long struggle against state funding cuts threatening services under California's In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program. The cuts were part of the revised state...

United Health Group declared a ‘crime scene’

October 13, 2009 By Tom Connolly

As one of many reform rallies targetting insurance giants across the country, Connecticut Health Care for America Now declared United Health Group a 'crime scene.'

EPA to probe weed-killer’s links to cancer, birth defects

October 13, 2009 By Susan Webb

In another break with Bush administration policies, the Environmental Protection Agency says it will investigate the health effects of one of the nation's most widely used weed-killers, atrazine.

What’s behind the widening of our waistlines?

September 1, 2009 By John Wojcik

Love handles and bulging waistlines are a big problem in America that can only be solved, a growing number of politicians are telling us, with some hefty “fat taxes.”

Hospitals still unprepared for swine flu

September 1, 2009 By John Wojcik

A survey of 190 American hospitals compiled by nurses in eight different states shows that hospitals across the nation are not ready for the coming H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic. The findings were released this week by...