Blair Underwood Opens Aids Clinic in D.C.

From WTOP.com:
Actor Blair Underwood cut the ribbon Thursday on an HIV/AIDS clinic bearing his name.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation opened the AHF Blair Underwood Clinic on K Street in Northwest D.C.
“It’s not about having your name on a building — it’s very flattering and I am truly honored — but it is about the work that [...]

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Why Are People Bringing Guns to Town Hall Meetings?

The presence of guns has entered the health care debate. This could easily get out of hand. And what’s crazy, is so far, the media is acting like this is OK. How do health care reform and gun rights correlate? This is disturbing in so many ways and shouldn’t just be seen as people exercising [...]

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The Public Option Is On Shaky Ground

President Obama is now saying that the public option is only a sliver of health reform. The administration is suggesting some type of co-op option instead. Err??? Where did this come from? Over the weekend, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the public option is “not the essential element” for reform.  Then the [...]

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Health Care Gets Hot

In the week since the House began its break, several town hall-style meetings have been disrupted by demonstrators. These episodes have drawn widespread media attention, and Republicans have seized on them as well as polls showing a decline in support for Obama and his agenda as evidence that public support is lacking for his signature [...]

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I’d Rather Go To Canada

The commercial below was shown over and over again during CNN’s BIA2:

Puh-leaze. The United States is not even one of the best countries for health care. If some Canadians do want to go somewhere else for better treatment, the U.S. is not the better option. (See World Health Report).
“..Patients are denied [...]

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Will There Ever Be Real Health-care Reform?

Off topic, but not really, here’s a good post on the Obama administration’s recent pledge on food safety.
The battle on the national health-care system is clearly heating up in Washington. Although the term health-care reform has been used often by the new administration, to me it’s unclear exactly what type of reform – if any [...]

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Do You Really Want to Know What’s In That Chicken Wing?

I caught Robert Kenner, the filmmaker of “Food Inc.,” giving an interview over the weekend. “Food Inc.” is a film about the nation’s food industry and its impact on our health. It comes to theaters in select cities this summer. I am so going to see this when it comes to Atlanta in late June. [...]

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Just My Opinion In 5 Minutes or Less: Pharmaceutical Companies Profit Off Bird Flu

 

The World Health Organization (WHO) Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on influenza A vaccines estimated that if the current outbreak turns into a full-fledged global pandemic, 4.9 billion doses of a vaccine would be needed.
Under this initiative, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and WHO Director-General Margaret Chan sponsored an agreement with executives from 30 [...]

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Lazy Food Products

While shopping in Walmart looking for some pancake batter, I ran across this item:

Shake ‘N Pour. For those too lazy to pour some mix into a bowl and add water. How hard is it to put a cup or two of prepared mix into a bowl and stir? Every time I see the commercials, I [...]

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When It Hurts to Go to the Doctor

Instead of grabbing the phone to make an appointment, many grab their keyboard and try to look up a quick remedy for that recurring pain. Others may choose to just ignore it and hope it goes away. Some may borrow a friend’s old prescription. No matter what the response, for millions of young adults, going [...]

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