Public Health - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/public_health/?source=rss&aim=public_health en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT Health agency covered up lead harm By Rebecca Renner Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/04/10/cdc_lead_report/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/04/10/cdc_lead_report/index.html?source=rss 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? By Alex Koppelman Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/11/07/staph/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/11/07/staph/index.html?source=rss 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 By Mark Follman Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/22/harm_reduction/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/22/harm_reduction/index.html?source=rss 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 By Andrew Leonard Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/06/27/gates_buffett/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/06/27/gates_buffett/index.html?source=rss Will the $60 billion Gates-Buffett colossus make the U.N.'s World Health Organization irrelevant? Pandemic of good government hits U.S.! By Joe Conason Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2005/11/04/pandemic/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2005/11/04/pandemic/index.html?source=rss Before avian flu strikes, we're going to need more than conservatives' beloved free market to save us. Full-text or just the abstract? By Andrew Leonard Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/05/11/who_bulletin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/05/11/who_bulletin/index.html?source=rss Big Pharma vs. public health: An all-points Bulletin from the WHO. Death penalty for I.V. drug users By Maia Szalavitz Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/24/needle_exchange/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/24/needle_exchange/index.html?source=rss 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 By Christopher Farah Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2004/03/10/levenson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2004/03/10/levenson/index.html?source=rss 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 By Jessica Branson Oreskovic Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/10/18/white_powder/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/10/18/white_powder/index.html?source=rss What exactly happens when you report a possible anthrax exposure? One woman found out -- the hard way. Our first line of defense By Laura Miller Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/10/17/garrett/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2001/10/17/garrett/index.html?source=rss 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? By Arthur Allen Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/10/13/anthrax_psychology/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/10/13/anthrax_psychology/index.html?source=rss 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 By Daryl Lindsey Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/06/18/love/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/06/18/love/index.html?source=rss 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 By David Horowitz Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/2001/06/11/aids/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/2001/06/11/aids/index.html?source=rss Through 20 years of political correctness and political pressure, the gay establishment has caused AIDS to spread like wildfire. Public health vs. private medicine By Dante Ramos Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/07/31/betrayaloftrust/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/07/31/betrayaloftrust/index.html?source=rss 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 By Dawn MacKeen Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/06/16/internet_sex/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/06/16/internet_sex/index.html?source=rss 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 By Andrew Webster Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/01/26/medicine_verde/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/01/26/medicine_verde/index.html?source=rss How Cuba is integrating natural remedies into its public health care. Making health an issue By Dena Bunis Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/log/2000/01/21/health_plan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/log/2000/01/21/health_plan/index.html?source=rss Clinton continues to push for reforms. Sex education with a contraceptive chaser By Debra S. Ollivier Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/12/06/pill/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/12/06/pill/index.html?source=rss The French will distribute the morning-after pill in schools, much to parents' and the Pope's chagrin. A plague on all your boroughs By Christina Valhouli Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/feature/1999/09/17/encephalitis/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/feature/1999/09/17/encephalitis/index.html?source=rss Mosquito-borne encephalitis is the latest player to hit Broadway. More fatalities cited for black moms By The Associated Press Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/log/1999/06/18/mortality/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/log/1999/06/18/mortality/index.html?source=rss Death sentence? By Dawn MacKeen Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/feature/1999/05/20/condoms/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/feature/1999/05/20/condoms/index.html?source=rss By making condoms contraband, prisons may be exacerbating the AIDS health crisis. The AIDS epidemic is just beginning By David Horowitz Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/1997/04/14/horowitz970414/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/1997/04/14/horowitz970414/index.html?source=rss Ashes To Ashes By Michael Ross Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/1996/04/23/sneakpeeks/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/1996/04/23/sneakpeeks/index.html?source=rss 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.