New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, with the encouragement of both city and state health commissioners, is seeking to bar the use of food stamps for buying soda and other sweetened drinks.  read more »

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A panel of retired military leaders has joined the fight against childhood obesity, saying that unhealthy school lunches are making America's youth unfit for military service and therefore pose a thre  read more »

Bingeing on high-calorie foods may be as addictive as cocaine or nicotine, and could cause compulsive eating and obesity, according to a study published on Sunday.  read more »

Cost:

$940 billion over ten years.

Deficit:  read more »

As he launched his healthcare summit Wednesday, President Obama said he hoped his televised effort to garner consensus for reform "isn't political theater, where we're just playing to the cameras and  read more »

A new study shows that abstinence-focused sexual education programs encourage a significant number of people to delay sexual activity, perhaps preventing unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted  read more »

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more th  read more »

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Certified school nurse Donna Martin is stocking up on face masks, hand sanitizer, tissues and information on disease prevention, but she needs parents to join her in the fight to keep H1N1, also known  read more »

Key developments on H1N1 (swine flu) outbreaks, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization and government officials:  read more »

Chinese authorities ordered a cover-up of a tainted milk scandal that has poisoned tens of thousands of babies because they feared social unrest if the news was made public, The Daily Telegraph has le  read more »

Barack Obama on healthcare  read more »

The Problem

John McCain on Health Care

Straight Talk on
Health System Reform

A "Call to Action"

John McCain on Abortion, Marriage, Stem Cell research, Internet laws

Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life

Overturning Roe v. Wade

It sounds like science fiction, but British scientists have announced they've created a human embryo from one man and two women.  read more »

CAMDEN, Ala.  read more »

It has been more than six years since President Bush, in the first major televised address of his presidency, drew a stark moral line against the destruction of human embryos in medical research.  read more »

Human cloning is an issue that's now gone well beyond the realm of science fiction.  read more »

Not only does the world's population feel increasingly concerned about climate change, but a recent survey finds a majority of individuals, both in and out of developed countries, say they are willing  read more »

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, November 2, 2007 (ENS) - General Mills Thursday announced a voluntary recall of Totino's and Jeno's frozen pizzas with pepperoni toppings because of possible contamination of t  read more »

Young people from across the Asia Pacific region, who are attending a health and sexuality conference here, Wednesday voiced their opposition to the ban on sex education in 12 Indian states and said t  read more »

The current means of caring for returning vets is antiquated, compounding concern over the long-term cost of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.  read more »

A middle school in Maine will become one of few in the nation to make contraceptives, including birth-control pills, available to students as young as 11.  read more »