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If Home Healthcare Is Often Better Than Hospitalization (and It Is), Why Is It So Uncommon in the U.S.?
February 16, 2018 | Healthcare hasn’t left the news for years. The fact that the talk is almost always about the $$$ may explain why home health care hasn’t caught on even though it often provides better patient outcomes and saves cash.
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Can Commercial DNA Analysis Create a Healthier You?
January 22, 2018 | With DNA analysis making its way into the commercial realm, it was inevitable that the health industry would get in on the action. But how good is that for the consumer?
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Knowing Your Skin Can Save Your Life
January 10, 2018 | It’s uncomfortable to entertain even the possibility of cancer. But there’s one type of cancer you are basically sure to survive if you take just a little preventive action.
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Does Sickle Cell Disease Expose Racism in American Healthcare?
January 04, 2018 | Unlike other diseases, the mortality rate from sickle cell disease is on the rise. When you consider that the majority of these patients are African-American, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised.
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The Question of Mandatory Flu Vaccination for Healthcare Workers
November 29, 2017 | The American way is to do as we please. But when it comes to transmission of disease, obviously things aren’t quite so simple. So should healthcare workers be required to get annual flu vaccines?
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Food Waste, Food Insecurity, and the Right to Food
November 15, 2017 | Nearly one-third of America’s food supply goes to waste. Although the government has recently instituted a number of measures to improve that state of affairs, it may take deeper changes to eliminate food insecurity.
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Is Climate Change Coming to Your Coffee Cup?
October 26, 2017 | The planet is warming, and the effects are being felt far and wide. But a new one may hit so close to home that by the end of the century the daily life of the average American will never be the same.
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The Unnaturalness of “Natural Flavors”
October 15, 2017 | The word “natural” has become perhaps the most misleading term in the food industry. Nothing makes that clearer than “natural flavoring,” a marketing trick used to enhance or even mask that actual natural flavor of what you’re eating.
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Psychedelics Can Take You on a Healing Trip
September 28, 2017 | Although it’s not news to a lot of us, even the purveyors of the ruinous failure known as the “War on Drugs” may be finally opening their eyes to the salubrious qualities of even the most prohibited of controlled substances
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Biomimicry: Letting Nature Show Us the Way(s)
September 04, 2017 | From creating material for building structures to synthesizing energy, for eons nature has invented ways to perform myriad tasks in environmentally sustainable ways. So the more humans learn and emulate these lessons, the better off we'll be.
