The American Heart Association--Protecting Industry Not Patients by Barbara...
The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) recently released new cardiovascular disease prevention guidelines. They are an egregious example of much that is wrong...
View ArticleA Year After Newtown, No New Federal Laws Despite Public Health Crisis
The gun lobby loves the short memory of the American public and the news media. Who remembers that Aaron Alexis killed 12 at Washington's Navy Yard just three months ago, legally buying a shotgun two...
View ArticleFrom eggs to beef, U.S. consumers often in the dark about production practices
According to an expose this week in The New York Times, the USDA uses tax dollars to help private industry develop more "profitable" animals in a semi-clandestine operation called the U.S. Meat Animal...
View ArticleThink twice when throwing food away
Did you know that we Americans throw away about 80,000,000,000 (80 billion) pounds of food a year and that only half of us are aware that food waste is a problem?
View ArticleAre Cloned Animals on the U.S Dinner Table?
When Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was asked point-blank, during a 2010 trade mission in Canada, if “cloned cows or their offspring have made it into the North American food supply,” his answers...
View ArticleYes, too much sugar is harmful but are artificial sweeteners the answer?
Most Americans consume at least twice the recommended amount of sugar and few people who have the soda “habit” only drink one soft drink a day as recommended
View ArticleSan Francisco’s Bayview district struggles to emerge from food desert
“It definitely has an impact on your psyche,” one resident said of the lack of food options.
View ArticleOp-Ed: Indigenous farmworkers are being hit by COVID myths — and deaths
This story as part of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
View ArticleThe Adverse Childhood Experiences Study -- the largest public health study...
"Adverse childhood experience" has become a buzzword in social services, public health, education, pediatrics and even business. Do you know your own ACE score?
View ArticleIllegal Immigrants Give Billions to Medicare, Social Security With No Hope of...
Sophia, 44, works up to 40 hours per week at a Mexican restaurant in Gurnee, Ill., making $10 an hour. With every paycheck, she said, $136 goes to payroll taxes, $62 of which goes to Social Security...
View ArticleGoing Beyond Guns: More Questions About Newtown, CT, Massacre
The last 15 years of research on how adverse childhood experiences cause adult onset of chronic disease, mental illness, violence and being a victim of violence is unequivocal. To understand what...
View ArticleDear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully. Sincerely,...
Dear Consumers: A disturbing trend has come to our attention. You, the people, are thinking more about health, and you’re starting to do something about it. This cannot continue.
View ArticleReporting on health condition of Chinese restaurant workers
Recent news about Chinese restaurant health and labor violations got this fellow's attention for a story idea about the health of their workers. Additionally, she plans to report on how well the...
View ArticleFellowship project: Childhood obesity, nutrition and food in the Los Angeles...
My colleague Michelle Valles and I plan a unique online-broadcast collaboration that we'll begin to realize through the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship this month. We believe a focus...
View ArticleDr. Norman Guthkelch, Still on the Medical Frontier
Dr. Norman Guthkelch, the grandfather of shaken baby theory, is on a new campaign.
View ArticleHealth challenges faced by Mixtec farmworkers in Ventura County
California supplies most of the nation’s strawberries with more grown in Oxnard than in any other place in the state, according to the USDA. Many of the berries grown in this area are picked by people...
View ArticleChildhood obesity, nutrition and food in the Los Angeles area
Working as a team for NBC4 Southern California my colleague Melissa Pamer and I will take on and humanize a hot topic as part of our 2013 California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship: childhood...
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