Gearing Up for a Health Care Battle | The Key to Anti-Aging | Obama's AIDS Plan

Health & Wellness Newsletter December 1st, 2008 More from Health & Wellness »

Health Care: It's Time for a Major Overhaul By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet A huge coalition of progressive and union forces is gearing up for political battle on the health care front. Read more »   The United States is crying out for guaranteed health care coverage, and a burgeoning movement is ready to make it happen. Established in July, Health Care for America Now!, a national grassroots campaign and coalition of community groups, small businesses and individual activists, has made impressive headway in the fight for universal health care. Visit their Web site at healthcareforamericanow.org or check out this week's top Health & Wellness story by Alexander Zaitchik to learn more. Thanks for reading, Heather Gehlert Managing Editor     Obama's Plan to End the HIV/AIDS Crisis By Kaytee Riek, RH Reality Check Obama promises to leave behind ideology-driven debates over how to spend money, and instead put common sense and science first. Read more »   Worried Sick: How Vulnerable Are You Really to Heart Attack, Stroke or Breast Cancer? By Maggie Mahar, Health Beat Americans are bombarded with messages that death and danger are just around the corner. Reality is usually much different. Read more »   Health Care Game-Changer Underway? By David Sirota, Campaign for America's Future America is a decidedly center-left nation, especially on the issue of health care. Obama now has a budget imperative to reform it immediately. Read more »   Work: The Key to Anti-Aging? By Jeremy Laurance, Independent UK Relaxation is important, but retirement may well be overrated. Read more »   Cigarette Consumption Down 28 Percent in 10 Years By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group It's hard to believe that as recently as 2000, people could smoke on planes. Read more »   Disturbing Diabetes Trends By Barbara Hesselgrave, Miller-McCune.com The incidence of type 2 diabetes has almost doubled in the last decade. And Hispanics are disproportionately affected. Read more »   Weekly Pulse: What Obama's Cabinet Picks Will Mean for Our Health By Lindsay Beyerstein, The Media Consortium Your weekly guide to the progressive media's best reporting on health and health care. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     World AIDS Day: It Is Time to Stop 'Aidsism' By Susan Blumenthal, M.D., Melissa Shive, Huffington Post We must put an end to the discrimination that people living with HIV/AIDS experience every day. Read more »   Cholera Outbreak in Zimbabwe a Humanitarian and Water Crisis By Abigail Brown, Water For The Ages Just one more painful reminder that the call for clean, safe water for everyone is a must. Read more »

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