Alternet Health and Wellness
Momentum Gathers for Truly Universal Health Care
A new campaign was launched to make clear to policy-makers that the moment is right to embrace truly universal health care.
MoveOn Launches Campaign for Bold Progressive Reforms as the Obama Era Begins
The Real Voices for Change campaign promises to push hard on universal health care, green jobs and leaving Iraq as Obama outlines his agenda.
Will Candidates' DNA Play a Role in Future Elections?
Candidate genome scans may be on the horizon.
Obama on the Precipice: The Ten Worst Things He Could Do When He Takes Over
What will Obama do, and how could he screw it up, given the fact that pretty much everything is riding on him getting things right the first time?
Dr. Joseph Mercola
Drugs for Children are Not Safe Enough
Drugs are regularly prescribed to children in outpatient care even though the have not been licensed for use with children.
"Off-label use" is a common practice -- it means that a drug is used outside the approved characteristic, such as age. But safety is not always guaranteed with off-label use.
A study in Germany showed that only 42.5 percent of prescriptions for neonates were approved and only 82.8 percent for babies.
For many drugs, it was not even possible for physicians to tell the medications were not approved based on the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC) -- the information given to physicians for the medication in question. Because of the lack of information, it was impossible to determine the licensing status for one drug in five.
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Remember when bands cared about albums as an art form? Instead of
slapping together a dozen tracks because, hey, they'll just end up on
everyone's iPod shuffle anyway, musicians considered how their songs
might congeal as a whole or form some sort of dram
Elvis Costello's frequent collaborator T-Bone Burnett produced Secret, Profane & Sugarcane,
an Americana-inflected album working with country and folk traditions
for images of sawdust floors set to mandolin and fiddle. Costello
intended one s
You wouldn’t expect to find T-bone and sirloin dinners at a place with stool seating and a location next to a shop hawking cell phones and cigarettes. But one of the city’s most evocatively named eateries, ZaZa Steak & Lemonade (4919 W. Capito
The enduring fantasy of older men is that a gorgeous
young woman will fall in love with them, find them sexually arousing
and long to imbibe their wisdom while sitting at their feet. That
fantasy is the spring driving Woody Allen's often-hilarious f
Away We Go, a droll comedy-cum-drama by director Sam Mendes (American Beauty),
perceptively explores the lives of more-or-less ordinary 30-somethings
lost in a world without much meaning. Verona (Maya Rudolph) and Bu
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