Filed under: Activism, North America, United States, Airlines, News Blame Northwest. Or, blame the merger with Delta. Either way, peanuts are back, and some passengers are pissed. On February 1, Northwest began dishing out peanuts on flights, which Delta has been doing since dirt was new. The timing...

  The Drudge Report, uh, reports that the Economic Stimulus Bill has $335 million set aside for STD education and prevention programs through the Centers for Disease Control, and it's "buried on page 147 of the bill." According to Drudge, nearly $700K of such funds have previously...

  Reported cases of sexually transmitted diseases—namely, syphilis and chlamydia—are on the rise. According to a 2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, updated earlier this month, chlamydia infections rose to 1.1 million in the United States, and rates of syphilis hav...

Biotech, obesity, Drugs Luke Timmerman wrote: Updated: Jan. 8, 2:40 pm Pacific–see below: San Diego-based Orexigen Therapeutics said today that a final-stage clinical trial of its experimental obesity drug reached its main goal of helping patients lose weight. The problem is that meeting the g...

Biotech, Antibiotics, C. Diff Luke Timmerman wrote: Of all the people I met last month on a whirlwind of meetings with San Diego biotech companies, none had more bounce in their step than the folks at Optimer Pharmaceuticals. This company passed a huge test last month that suggests it has created th...

Lead paint poses a real threat to your family's health, especially if you have children. Older homes are particularly at risk for lead exposure. If you live in a house more than 30 years old and haven't yet tested for lead, it's not too hard or costly to do -- and it may be well worth it....

B arbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, asked Vice President Cheney on Nov. 1 for documents on the White House's reported watering down of testimony by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about global warming's harmful effec......

Members of Vice President Cheney's staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official about health threats posed by global warming, a former Environmental Protection Agency official said yesterday....

By January W. PayneSpecial to The Washington PostTuesday, June 10, 2008 Page one of two: Please click on external source for complete article An integral part of many people's lives, religion defines patterns of worship and socialization, but its impact, if any, on health is unclear. Some studies sh...

Senate Democrats introduced a bill yesterday that would ban a controversial chemical found in plastics from all products made for infants and children up to age 7 and would direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the health risks the chemical may pose to both children and......