News and articles about Health

• States are all over the map on health overhaul

  23 Jan, 2012, Boston Globe

  A list of states and their uninsured population, grouped according to the progress they have made in establishing health insurance exchanges, a linchpin for expanding coverage under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law.
  
  
  

• Obama's health overhaul lags in many states

  23 Jan, 2012, Boston Globe

  Here's a reality check for President Barack Obama's health overhaul: Three out of four uninsured Americans live in states that have yet to figure out how to deliver on its promise of affordable medical care.
  
  
  

• Love Letters: A recipe for a bad marriage?

  24 Jan, 2012, Boston Globe

  Q: Hi Meredith, I have been dating a man for just about two years now. He's sensitive and funny,...
  
  
  

• Q&A: Obama and the birth control controversy

  12 Feb, 2012, Boston Globe

  What birth control debate? A half-century after the introduction of the pill, acceptance of birth control by American women is virtually universal.
  
  
  

• Report: Wind turbines don't hurt health

  17 Jan, 2012, Boston Globe

  There is little to no evidence that wind turbines pose a risk to the health or residents living near them, a panel of independent scientists and doctors found in a report commissioned by the state Department of Environmental Protection.
  
  
  

• PICTURES: Boners BBQ Starts Epic Social Network Battle

  10 Jan, 2012, Huffington Post

  Frustrated by a woman they say didn't leave a tip after using a coupon to eat at their restaurant, employees at Boners BBQ in Atlanta...

• States are all over the map on health overhaul

  22 Jan, 2012, Boston Globe

  A list of states and their uninsured population, grouped according to the progress they have made in establishing health insurance exchanges, a linchpin for expanding coverage under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law.
  
  
  

• Obama plan seeks to defuse birth control debate

  12 Feb, 2012, Los Angeles Times

  President Obama offers an 'accommodation' in hopes of ending the debate over a mandate that religiously affiliated groups provide birth control coverage. Many critics welcome the move, but not all.
  
  For days President Obama had been hammered over a regulation in the 2010 healthcare law that required religiously affiliated hospitals, charities and universities to provide birth control coverage for their female employees even if that conflicted with church teachings.

  
  

  

• Alex Beam: ‘You talkin’ to me, Dude?’

  17 Jan, 2012, Boston Globe

  Don't call me "dude.'' I just spent a wonderful vacation with my young sons, who occasionally mistook me for a "dude,'' e.g. "Dude, you've got to check out this Lonely Island video.'' Where I work, the D-word is everywhere, for example, "Dude, you mis-spelled Gisele Bundchen's name again.'' If the dog could talk - and I think she's working up to that - she'd probably call me "dude,'' too I repeat: Don't call me "dude.''
  
  
  

• Marine Mammals You Didn't Know People Ate

  27 Jan, 2012, Huffington Post

  Edible Marine Mammals: Study Finds 97 Species Are Eaten Around The World (PHOTOS)