Luis Medellin and his three little sisters--aged 5, 9 and 12--live in the middle of an orange grove in Lindsay, CA--a small farming town in the Central Valley. During the growing season, Luis and his sisters are awakened several times a week by the sickly s

Great news -- the Senate voted on the anti-choice Nelson/Hatch amendment to the health care reform bill, and we won! Unlike the Stupak amendment that passed the House of Representatives, this amendment did not pass the Senate!

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When the world's largest rice producer and consumer of rice approves a "locally-developed strain of genetically-modified rice," thus paving the way for large-scale production in 2 to 3 years, it's news. Big news. Despite the stories that we often hear

Join PHR and our partners in commemorating World AIDS Day and Human Rights Day by telling the Senate: Human Rights = Healthy Women!

Luis Medellin and his three little sisters--aged 5, 9 and 12--live in the middle of an orange grove in Lindsay, CA--a small farming town in the Central Valley. During the growing season, Luis and his sisters are awakened several times a week by the sickly

Alternative medicine is any healing practice that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine, and typically encompasses therapies with a historical or cultural, rather than a scientific basis.

Becoming a Certified Nursing Assistant does not require as many years of classes as many other degrees, but it does require around 100 hours of class time, including supervised clinical training, which is never cheap.

As part of our broader health care reform effort, the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act will eliminate the outdated insurance industry antitrust exemption, and force health insurance companies to compete fairly.

New York Times reporter Benedict Carey referred to tears in a recent piece as "emotional perspiration." Given that I sweat a lot and hate deodorant, I suppose it makes sense that I weep often. But I'm not going to apologize for that, because after a good