AltWeeklies Wire
A Massive Free Clinic Takes the Pulse of Health Care in Americanew
Familiar rhetoric: "We have the best health care in the world!" Anyone who has actually said that in the last year is probably not at Bartle Hall December 10. The weather hasn't kept away a couple of thousand people who need help. It has just made it harder for some to get here.
In Rejecting Real Health Care Reform, Businesses Don't Know What's Good for Themnew
"The system sucks! Save the system!" That, in six words, pretty much sums up what Chamber of Commerce types are contributing to the health-care debate. I'm exaggerating but only a little.
On HIV, Some Black Ministers Are Admitting that Silence Equals Deathnew
The Good Samaritan Project Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS in Kansas City hopes to fight infections in a city where the HIV infection rate rivals Africa's.
A Biologist Exposes the Dangers of bisphenol A and Earns the Wrath of the Plastic Industrynew
Missouri biologist Frederick vom Saal's willingness to speak frankly about his findings is alarming to the top five makers of bisphenol A: Dow Chemical, Bayer Material Science, Sunoco Chemicals, SABIC Innovative Plastics and Hexion Specialty Chemicals. And now, after years of quietly publishing studies in scientific journals and presenting papers at toxicological conventions, he is starting to be heard.
Sicko Juniornew
Kidney cancer killed Julie Pierce's husband -- now she fears it will claim her 15-year-old son.
Tags: Health & Science
What Can We Learn from Traditional Healers and Indigenous Plants?new
In the fight against AIDS, a professor pays a visit to some African witch doctors.
The Power of Half a Brainnew
To live relatively normal lives, these children must give up something most of us can't imagine.
Tags: Health & Science
Jay's Anatomynew
At their free clinic, young medical students just keep putting band-aids on a bleeding health care system.
Tags: Health & Science
High Above the Lawnew
She has cerebral palsy, four kids and loads of debt -- meet the unofficial spokeswoman for marijuana legalization.
Xanga.com Cuts to the Heart of High School Darknessnew
Xanga.com software has become the blogging system of choice for the underage. On hyperpersonalized Web pages, teens obsess about suicide and sex and take the opportunity to harass each other.
City Taxpayers Asked to Come to Hospital's Aidnew
Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Kay Barnes and other officials are pushing for a property-tax increase to help fund emergency health care for the uninsured.
Attack on Evolution Is Well-Coordinatednew
Bloggers reveal that campaign contributions have flowed from anti-evolution, "intelligent design" proponents to conservative Kansas City school board members.
Meet Dr. Hydrogennew
Roger Billings is an affable 57-year-old who holds many patents, on things from hydrogen devices to computer networking gadgets and Ethernet technology. But his biggest and most fascinating invention may be his own persona.
Tags: Health & Science
Doc Offers Miracle in a Bottlenew
Dr. Edward McDonagh has been fighting Missouri’s medical establishment for years to defend his practice of treating all kinds of maladies with chelation therapy, which removes potentially harmful metals from the bloodstream.
Tags: Health & Science
