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Riding a bike is good for your health and the environment - so you'd think governments would go out of their way to encourage cyclists, right? Wrong. Oregon — a state known for its avid bicycling culture - just approved...

What if instead of prescribing medicine to treat a disease, doctors could prescribe fresh food to help prevent one? Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania is testing their food prescription idea with Fresh Food Pharmacy,...

Let's face it: no one wants to have to go to the hospital if they can avoid it. It's not just that being poked and prodded by doctors is uncomfortable: being stripped of your everyday wear and put into a drab hospital gown...

A horrific outbreak of rashes on children in Canada’s Kashechewan led many to criticize the health care for aboriginal peoples in the country. The children are members of First Nation, one of three of Canada’s aboriginal...

While corporations like Hobby Lobby have been battling to take away women’s choices when it comes to contraception, the Gates Foundation and MicroCHIPS Inc...

According to Kaiser Permanente, health care activities as a whole contribute eight percent of the total greenhouse gas emissions produced in the United States...

Lucky for us, Bernie Sanders sets him straight.

SIMBAS is a stand alone biochip that can diagnose diseases like HIV and tuberculosis within minutes.

Brush. Floss. See your dentist. We all know the basics of keeping our mouths healthy, but if you’re hitting the high points and still having trouble staying out of the dental chair, there could be a missing link in your...

As soon as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — the health care reform bill — was signed into law on March 23, 2010, Republicans vowed they would repeal the law or block its implementation somehow...

Read the rest of The MONARCH System for a Mobile & Modular HospitalPermalink | Add to del.icio.us | diggPost tags: clinic, Design for Health, design for humanity, eco design, green design, health care, hord...

Every year at the place where I work, the cost of health care (and the portion I pay) goes up MORE than the amount of my yearly raise. Which means in a nutshell that I take a pay cut every year to continue working at my...

Below the fold is a guest essay from a friend of mine who is an internal medicine M.D. practicing in East-central Minnesota. (He posts on The Oil Drum as 'Rock climber'). The post is a shortened version of a longer essay...

Below the fold is a guest essay from a friend of mine who posts on The Oil Drum as 'Rock climber'. The post is a shortened version of a longer essay on the interrelationships between health care, human health, human happiness...

A lot of politicians say they are going to “change the tone” in D.C. What usually ends up happening is not much. Obama has taken flak from the left and the right for trying to work in a bipartisan way, and today...