AltWeeklies Wire
Why the Health Care Lobby Opposes the Public Optionnew
As a caravan rolled to Washington, Health Care for America Now's message about the incredibly complicated legislation had been reduced to one simple message: Whatever emerged, the bill must contain the strong public insurance option that Obama proposed -- and the private insurers, in league with the Republicans, were trying to kill.
What the Mexico City AIDS Conference Taught Menew
The CDC now tells us that, oops, they counted wrong for the past several years. The true number of new HIV infections occurring each year in the U.S. is more than 40 percent higher than previously reported.
New Adventures in Sciencenew
Genetic testing for a particular condition is at best predictive -- but there are weighty privacy issues.
Tags: Health & Science
Bio Lab Debate Goes on Tournew
With less than nine months before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security decides where to site its disease research lab, proponents and opponents of the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility continue to plead their cases before government leaders and the business community.
Tags: Health & Science
Flaws Emerge in North Carolina Pesticide Lawnew
Almost a year after the change went into effect, not a single doctor in the state has used the new program to report farmworker sickness.
Tags: Health & Science
When Plagues Won't Endnew
The South -- and North Carolina in particular -- is the literal and metaphoric epicenter of the 21st century HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Tags: Health & Science
Inside the Mind of Kenneth Mareadynew
No medicine or therapy could cure his depression and addiction -- now his last resort is prison.
Tags: Health & Science
The Battle Against the Bio-Labnew
The battle against the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility will test the strength of Granville County residents' activism.
Tags: Health & Science
Biotech or Biohazard?new
A proposed federal lab in Butner, N.C., would study the world's deadliest diseases.
Tags: Health & Science
Ideas Don't Cost an Arm & Legnew
Tackle Design's idealistic young partners are making things the world needs -- and they want your help giving those things away.
Tags: Health & Science
Goodbye to the Sunset Mannew
Lee Smith, one of the South's most acclaimed novelists, says farewell to her son, Josh, who died at 32 after struggling for years with mental illness. He is recalled through their annual sailing trips off Key West.
Tags: Health & Science
Mental Health Reform Would Work in N.C.—with Enough Moneynew
First the state ordered mental health reform. Then they took away the money to do it. Now programs proven to help people—and save money—will suffer along with their patients.
