Public Health

Health agency covered up lead harm Health agency covered up lead harm

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention withheld evidence that contaminated tap water caused lead poisoning in kids.
  • Is the way we raise our food giving us MRSA?

    The antibiotics fed to the farm animals we eat may have helped to create superbugs like the drug-resistant staph bacteria known as MRSA.
  • The needle and the damage undone

    Vancouver has halted a drug epidemic by helping street addicts shoot up in safety. Will U.S. cities -- and Bush's drug czar -- learn from the Canadians' success?
  • Bill Gates vs. the WHO

    Will the $60 billion Gates-Buffett colossus make the U.N.'s World Health Organization irrelevant?
  • Pandemic of good government hits U.S.!

    Before avian flu strikes, we're going to need more than conservatives' beloved free market to save us.
  • Full-text or just the abstract?

    Big Pharma vs. public health: An all-points Bulletin from the WHO.
  • Death penalty for I.V. drug users

    The Bush administration is considering imposing a gag rule on U.S.-funded groups that provide clean needles to addicts, despite their huge success in preventing the spread of HIV.
  • AIDS: The black plague

    Jacob Levenson talks about his new book, "The Secret Epidemic," which reveals a truth America has refused to confront.
  • White powder in my morning paper

    What exactly happens when you report a possible anthrax exposure? One woman found out -- the hard way.
  • Our first line of defense

    An expert on public health talks about what America needs to fight a bioterrorist attack, why we don't have it and how stocking up on cipro is a danger to everyone.
  • Anthrax attack -- or panic attack?

    As suspected bioterror incidents are reported from Oregon to New York, medical experts fear the nation is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
  • The AIDS-drug warrior

    Activist Jamie Love says pharmaceutical companies must be forced to yield their patents to save hundreds of thousands of lives. Is he a visionary -- or a dangerous radical?
  • The plague abettors

    Through 20 years of political correctness and political pressure, the gay establishment has caused AIDS to spread like wildfire.
  • Public health vs. private medicine

    Laurie Garrett, author of "Betrayal of Trust," talks about the policy battle in America that allows disease to spread and people to die.
  • Internet sex infections

    Have you had anal sex with a partner you met online? The inquiring minds at the Centers for Disease Control want to know.
  • Green medicine

    How Cuba is integrating natural remedies into its public health care.
  • Making health an issue

    Clinton continues to push for reforms.
  • Sex education with a contraceptive chaser

    The French will distribute the morning-after pill in schools, much to parents' and the Pope's chagrin.
  • A plague on all your boroughs

    Mosquito-borne encephalitis is the latest player to hit Broadway.
  • More fatalities cited for black moms

  • Death sentence?

    By making condoms contraband, prisons may be exacerbating the AIDS health crisis.
  • The AIDS epidemic is just beginning

  • Ashes To Ashes

    Michael Ross reviews "Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War the Public Health and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris" by Richard Kluger.

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