A report by a consumer advocacy group criticizes states for not doing more to protect consumers who buy health insurance through the individual market, rather than through their employers or the government.
Most states, including Indiana, don’t require insurance companies to sell policies to all applicants, don’t prohibit charging higher premiums based on health status, and [...]
Members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) are fighting back against insurance companies that care more about profits than people.
CNA/NNOC members, nurses, doctors, patients and Americans of every stripe will join in a national day of protest against insurance companies June 19. In more than 15 cities from Baltimore to Pittsburgh to [...]
Finally, the Democratic primary race is over. Above and beyond her persistence and her historic effort as a female presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton’s campaign legacy is health insurance truth.
Forty-seven million Americans do not have health insurance. According to Consumer Reports, nearly half, 49 percent of Americans, are unprepared financially to cope with a costly medical [...]
the all-natural alternative to traditional toothpaste won the highly-respected Editor’s Choice Award from The NaturalNews.com Network, a non-profit collection of public education websites covering topics that empower people to make positive changes in their health, environment and consumer choices.
which comes in a variety of flavors — including citrus, peppermint and chocolate — is based in [...]
A new two-volume comprehensive book for safety and health professionals, The Safety Professionals Handbook, is edited by a Penn State industrial health and safety researcher in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and published by the American Society of Safety Engineers.
Joel M. Haight, associate professor of energy and mineral engineering and editor-in-chief of the [...]
Most women arriving in parts of the province of Kasai Occidental in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) among a new wave of some 27,000 deportees from Angola, have been sexually abused, a local health official said.
“There are many injured people and 80 percent of the women [who arrived] had been raped,” Pierre Didi Mpata, [...]
The government has launched a call centre — first of its kind in the country — where people can anonymously put queries on reproductive health, sexual diseases and abortion to get answers from trained executives and doctors.
It will provide proper health information, particularly to women, who have hardly any access to it in vast stretches [...]
Young people are more likely to use sexual health services if they can access them at schools, according to research by the University of the West of England. A pilot scheme offering drop-in sexual health clinics in Bristol schools has successfully accessed ‘hard to reach’ groups including boys and vulnerable young people who would not [...]
Young people are more likely to use sexual health services if they can access them at schools, according to research by the University of the West of England. A pilot scheme offering drop-in sexual health clinics in Bristol schools has successfully accessed ‘hard to reach’ groups including boys and vulnerable young people who would not [...]
Tina Armenta’s car broke down the day she and her 13-year-old daughter planned to attend a sex education class at Planned Parenthood last week.
As if that would stop her. Armenta has already rescheduled.
“Parents need to open their eyes and stop being naive about what they think their child may or may not know,” she said.
Armenta, [...]
