I'm not a doctor or nurse, but I have been able to avoid the flu for over 10 years without taking a flu shot.

AstraZeneca, Bayer, Baxter and Pfizer are planning to outsource pharmaceutical production to China. Eli Lilly already has. People have already been sickened and died from contaminated Chinese heparin. Toxic cough syrup killed thousands. We deserve better.

I think many of us share a similar fear: dying alone, incapacitated, perhaps unable to speak, to remember, to do the simplest thing for ourselves. Read this piece & share your thoughts on prolonging life when real life itself has already departed.

On Wednesday, September 3, USDC Judge Timothy Corrigan began hearing testimony to determine whether Florida's prisons will continue the inhumane practice of gassing their mentally ill inmates. As a child, I watched The Diary of Anne Frank . . .

Several arrests have been made by the FBI in connection with a scheme that used the most helpless - the homeless - to defraud government programs of $millions$. Hospital staff even went to areas where the homeless congregate to recruit them with cash.

PLEASE HELP! CROSS POST: Tristan Gore, 12, is dying. The focus of my story was to be on the fundraising at Avalon Middle School to send Tristan to Jacksonville for a bone marrow transplant. Tristan's dad had lost his job and the money was going quickly.

Incisive report on how people slip through the medical-care cracks in this country - the forgotten, almost-middle class ill: too "well-off" for Medicaid, not "sick enough" for other aid.