Lawmakers, Public Grapple With Health Care Endgame

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Many Democrats consider their health overhaul increasingly politically dicey now, but "are betting that the only thing worse than passing a bill many of them don't like is not passing one at all," the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Failure to pass legislation, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, ...

Warmer Homes Mean Better Health For Poor People

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Being warm enough at home might lead to better health, according to a new review appearing online in the American Journal of Public Health. Hilary Thomson, of the Medical Research Council's Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow, Scotland, and her colleagues combined the results of ...