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Ros-Lehtinen's Constituents Happy and Healthy, Meek's Not So Much

Gallup, Healthways, and America's Health Insurance Plans have teamed up to create a state by state, and congressional district by district well-being index. The index is based on the World Health Organization's definition of health as "not only the absence of infirmity and disease, but also a state ... More >>

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Swine Flu Patient Traveled Through Miami

via FlickrThe fine country of Austria reported its first case of swine flu today according to the World Health Organization. The patient, a 28-year-old woman, who recently returned from a trip to Guatemala to visit her parents, is expected to recover. The woman flew from Guatemala to an airport in M ... More >>

Don't Call it Swine Flu

Zero swine flu cases have been found Florida, but that hasn't stopped the Herald from reporting 20 people might, maybe, sorta-kinda be infected. So you can probably blame media -- ourselves included -- for the fact that heathy people have stopped buying bacon and started calling their doctors every ... More >>

Two Cases of Swine Flu Confirmed in Florida: One in Broward

via FlickrIt's probably not time for a mask just yet, but stock up on the hand soap. Gov. Charlie Crist announced today that two cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Florida: a 17-year-old teenage girl who attended Hallendale High School in Broward County and an elementary school boy in Lee Cou ... More >>

Miami Now Exporting Swine Flu

Ecuador has its first reported case of confirmed swine flu, and the victim is an 11 year-old boy who had arrived only days earlier from Miami. Meanwhile, Miami-Dade now has 12 confirmed cases. Being such an international hub certainly puts Miami-Dade at risk for swine flu, but it also places us ... More >>

Swine Flu Officially a Pandemic; 75 Cases in Miami-Dade

Almost two months after the first case was reported, and about a month since anyone cared, the World Health Organization has declared swine flu is officially the first flu pandemic in 41 years!So far, H1N1 has killed 144 people, a small number compared to the millions who died during the last fl ... More >>

A Canadian Politician Gets Heart Surgery in Miami: Does This Mean Socialized Medicine Sucks?

​Earlier this month, Danny Williams, the head of government in Canada's Newfoundland province, traveled to Miami Beach to receive heart surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center.Cue the predictable right-wing response taking digs at Canada's publicly funded, liberal-loved health-care system: "We keep ... More >>

At Risk to Swoon

​Earlier this month, Danny Williams, the head of government in Canada's Newfoundland province, traveled to Miami Beach to receive heart surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center.Cue the predictable right-wing response taking digs at Canada's publicly funded, liberal-loved health-care system: "We keep ... More >>

Peanut Butter Miracles: Amid Haiti's chaos, an American pediatrician has made ending child malnutrition her life's work

​Earlier this month, Danny Williams, the head of government in Canada's Newfoundland province, traveled to Miami Beach to receive heart surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center.Cue the predictable right-wing response taking digs at Canada's publicly funded, liberal-loved health-care system: "We keep ... More >>

Spreading Dry Animal Feces and Other Leaf Blower Dangers

​So Coral Gables Commissioner Ralph Cabrera just called up to say that yesterday's post trashing his proposal to ban gasoline-powered leaf blowers in Coral Gables was unfair. He claims to have said many other more intelligent things to a reporter than, "Some people look at leaf blowers as a necess ... More >>

Air Pollution Triggers More Heart Attacks Than Cocaine

​Quick, what causes more heart attacks: cocaine or air pollution? It's actually air pollution, which triggers roughly five to seven percent of all heart attacks. Whereas cocaine is responsible for only 0.9 percent of all heart attacks. Of course, cocaine is much more dangerous on a personal level. ... More >>

Contagion: Steven Soderbergh turns the star-studded Hollywood disaster flick on its head

​Quick, what causes more heart attacks: cocaine or air pollution? It's actually air pollution, which triggers roughly five to seven percent of all heart attacks. Whereas cocaine is responsible for only 0.9 percent of all heart attacks. Of course, cocaine is much more dangerous on a personal level. ... More >>

Four Ideas For New Nutrition Labels, From Stars to Traffic Lights

​"The grocery store has become a Tower of Babel," said Louis Sullivan back in 1990. "Consumers need to be linguists, scientists, and mind readers to understand the many labels they see."Sullivan at the time was Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and he instructed the FDA to ... More >>