About 60 percent of Americans - 175 million people - now live in communities that restrict smoking in public places.
On Nov. 3, voters in St. Louis County can add the county’s nearly 1 million residents to the list by voting…
Sen. Charles Grassley addresses a rally on health reform in Iowa.
On Tuesday, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, called President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., “intellectually dishonest” in their discussion of health reform. He said they’re using the flap about…
People buy health insurance so they won’t be bankrupted by unexpected illness. But for increasing numbers of Americans, that’s not how things are working out.
A new national survey estimates that 62 percent of all personal bankruptcies in 2007 — nearly…
Time was when having a drink in a North Carolina bar meant having a cigarette, too — or at least inhaling a few coffin nails’ worth of tobacco smoke.
Times have changed.
The nation’s largest tobacco-producing state just became the latest state…
Smokers and Medicaid recipients in Missouri
This map shows Missouri Medicaid enrollment and smoking rates by county. The darker the color, the greater the percentage of people in Medicaid. Counties with cross-hatching have the highest smoking rates, followed by those with…
The state of Missouri has two words for Medicaid patients who need to use a bedpan, commode chair or urinal: Ask first.
Indelicate though it sounds, the equipment necessary for elderly and disabled people to relieve themselves now is subject to…
People with spotty Medicaid eligibility — coverage that starts and stops and starts again — are nearly four times more like to end up in the hospitals with conditions like asthma and diabetes than people with continuous coverage, a new…
From USA Today:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the impoverished neighborhood of South Los Angeles, fast food is the easiest cuisine to find — and that’s a problem for elected officials who see it as an unhealthy source of calories and…
A hedge fund manager disappears in murky circumstances. Maybe suicide, maybe not.
One member of Obama’s vice president search committee has quit after a “special mortgage” he received from troubled bank Countrywide was made public.
Talk of the Nation today featured a discussion…
Sildenafil, the little blue can-do pill, came on the market 10 years ago last week. You’re probably more familiar with its trade name: Viagra.
From the moment it was released, Viagra caused a sensation. Patients lined up at doctors’ offices for…
