For the past 6 months, President Obama has been planning on extending the Bush/Cheney tax cuts for the super-rich, continuing the President’s support for Republican economic policies and the financial elite.  The President has tried different methods in order to get his new extension taken care of before the New Year; when taxes would have [...]

Around the country, big pharmaceutical companies are paying doctors with blemished records to promote their products to their patients. Although the drug companies claim that they hire doctors who are highly respected in their fields, an investigation was performed by ProPublica discovered that hundreds of doctors who are on payroll by these large drug companies [...]

South Africa uses nanotechnology, releasing nanoparticles slowly into ones bloodstream to treat tuberculosis (TB). Researchers in South Africa are now making it possible for patients with TB to no longer have to take daily pills but instead can use nanotechnology to be treated. Although research for nanotechnology is expensive, it is believed that the benefits [...]

Over the past decade, post-traumatic stress disorder has become increasingly among troops who have participated in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A large study from the RAND Institute, a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis, reported that one in five servicemen return home from those wars with PTSD. [...]

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sued the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday after the Secret Service refused to hand over the records of the visits of top healthcare executives. In response to CREW’s FOIA request, the Obama administration has taken the same position as the Bush administration that the records are presidential, not agency records, and [...]

After the quake struck, Haiti’s first medical aid came from Cuba  Among the many donor nations helping Haiti, Cuba and its medical teams have played a major role in treating earthquake victims. Public health experts say the Cubans were the first to set up medical facilities among the debris and to revamp hospitals immediately after the earthquake struck. “It is [...]

In May 2009, the House Committee on Veterans Affairs held a roundtable to discuss “The Growing Needs of Women Veterans” and ask “Is the VA Ready?”. The answer to this question is no. The VA seems to operate as if all of its patients are “young, childless, and male”. It fails to provide adequate health [...]

15% of our active duty military personnel are women. 20% of the new recruits are women. 17% of the reserves are women. The VA is not ready for these women and cannot help women who are veterans very much at all. VA’s don’t have child care facilities so a lot of the women can’t even [...]

By:  Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips “There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.” –Charles Dickens The Corporate News Media:  Not in the Business of News The late New York University media scholar Neil Postman once said about America, “We are the best entertained least informed society [...]