- States With Most Obesity Oppose Obamacare The Most
- New Financial Forms Show Clarence Thomas's Wife Continued to Lobby Against Healthcare In 2011
- Affordable Care Act means $1.1 billion insurance rebate
- Yes, Actually, Obamacare Is the Biggest Tax Increase in History--"Just because a headline or an idea is repeated over and over again doesn’t make it true."
- Rick Perry To 6.5 Million Texans With No Healthcare-You're On Your Own
- Why have Republicans voted 30 times to repeal Obamacare? To increase uncertainty.
- Dems finally defend Obamacare--"After ignoring the Affordable Care Act in 2010, Democrats have begun using it as a political weapon this election." Salon
- GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3bn in US drug fraud scandal
- How Not to Get Big Pharma to Change Its Ways--"$3 billion may sound like a lot of money, but during these years Glaxo made $27.5 billion on these three antidepressants alone, according to IMS Health...."
- Big Pharma criminality no longer a conspiracy theory: Bribery, fraud, price fixing now a matter of public record
- McCain Denounces Big Pharma Lobbyists Who Just Killed Cheaper Drugs Again
- Big pharma is cut out by India's plan to bring medicine to masses--"Ambitious $5bn push deals blow to global firms with focus on generic alternatives above branded drugs."
- Worst TB outbreak in 20 years kept secret--"The CDC officer had a serious warning for Florida health officials in April: A tuberculosis outbreak in Jacksonville was one of the worst his group had investigated in 20 years. Linked to 13 deaths and 99 illnesses, including six children, it would require concerted action to stop. That report had been penned on April 5, exactly nine days after Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed the bill that shrank the Department of Health and required the closure of the A.G. Holley State Hospital in Lantana, where tough tuberculosis cases have been treated for more than 60 years."
- California doctors sue Aetna for coverage denials--"Thousands of doctors in California are suing the health insurance company Aetna Inc., claiming the company routinely denies patients access to out-of-network doctors even when the patient has purchased a policy giving them the right to choose providers."
- Use of government aid for junk food questioned--"As Republicans prepare to cut billions of dollars from food stamps, a Bay Area activist has stirred a hornet's nest on the left by questioning how much the program ends up benefiting corporations that peddle soda, candy and other junk food to low-income people."
- UK: Hospitals 'letting patients die to save money'--"Hospitals may be depriving elderly patients of food and drink to hasten their deaths as part of cost-cutting measures to free up bed space, leading doctors warn."
- Xavius Scullark-Johnson, Prisoner, Dies After He's Denied Health Care--"[W]hen an ambulance showed up to take Scullark-Johnson to a hospital, the nurse on duty, Denise Garin, turned it away. Scullark-Johnson was pronounced dead hours later. The Tribune notes that ambulance runs are 'strictly monitored' in 'an effort to cut costs' by Corizon Inc., the for-profit company contracted by the DOC to care for its prisoners."
- Abortions Have Made Life Better for Millions Of Men: It's About Time to Speak Up in Support
- House GOP Blocking Abortion Access for Soldiers Who Are Raped
- Ohio personhood campaign aborted after signature drive implodes--"An Ohio campaign that sought to change the state’s constitution to ban all abortions and hormonal birth control drugs was itself aborted on Tuesday evening after organizers revealed that they had failed miserably at collecting the necessary voter signatures."
- Republican senator holds up flood insurance bill for a vote on abortion
- Rape Victim Can Sue for Denied Contraception--"A Tampa rape victim can sue the Hillsborough County Sheriff for allowing a jail guard to refuse to give her a prescribed emergency contraception pill because it was against the guard's religious beliefs..."
- More Irish women seeking help for British abortions, says charity--"Ireland's abortion ban means women with severe pregnancy complications are going abroad for terminations."
- After A Forced Abortion, A Roaring Debate In China--"Deng Jiyuan and Feng Jianmei, a couple from northwest China's Shaanxi province, have a 6-year-old daughter. Under China's complicated birth calculus, they were barred from having another child. But they tried anyway."
- 1% Wives Are Helping Kill Feminism and Make the War on Women Possible
- GOP State Senator Will Teach Brooklyn Women To Act Like Ladies
- Rep. Joe Walsh Blasts Double Amputee’s Military Service, Says She’s Not A 'True Hero'
- The crimewave that shames the world--"It's one of the last great taboos: the murder of at least 20,000 women a year in the name of 'honour'. Nor is the problem confined to the Middle East: the contagion is spreading rapidly."
- Sex Grooming Cases Spark Racial Tensions
- Popular female Pakistani singer killed in drive-by shooting--"A popular female Pakistani singer who defied the Taliban's decree against singing and dancing was shot and killed in northwest Pakistan Monday night, police and hospital officials told CNN."
- Militancy: A progressive voice for tribal women silenced in targeted attack
- Afghan woman publicly executed near Kabul
- Indian father accused of killing baby 'for being a girl'
- Indian man beheads daughter in rage over lifestyle--"Police say a man upset over his daughter's lifestyle chopped her head off with a sword and then paraded it through his village before surrendering to authorities in western India."
- Liberian effort to end female circumcision runs into opposition
- Saudi Arabian women risk arrest as they defy ban on driving
- Sweden moves to outlaw forced marriages
