News/Commentary
By Cheree Cleghorn, Editor
Labor Day often brings news of major drug busts.
For whatever reasons, drug dealers ship big on Labor Day weekend. New fall goods?
Those busts have shown that some legitimate truck drivers also do a little side-work in drug delivery.
The other delivery system is composed of zig-zagging crazy speeders (in both senses of the […]

News/Commentary
For those who choose to bike it to work, it’s a two-fer: they save gas and time and they get their exercise, too.
Clearly, this isn’t an option all nations prefer. All individuals don’t, either. However, it is in all nations’ best interests to pursue all available options for getting gas consumption and emissions down.
The recipe […]

News/Commentary
India and Japan have more women going to work but the contrast between each nation’s response to this change in the social structure could hardly be more different.
Two separate stories from the Washington Post this week show, in vivid detail, what Indian and Japanese women are up against because they want to have careers.
In India, […]

News
This is from Katherine Hobson’s column, On Fitness.
As kids start the fall sports seasons, parents of girls need to know about their specific risks.
There is a helpful link to the four most common sports injuries, a description of each and more about why they happen.
Informed parents and young female athletes can work to bring those […]

News
This study is the the first to examine how much prescription-sharing goes on among adults and the results were a surprise.
While it is common for both sexes, researchers noted that the highest rate of drug-sharing was among women of reproductive age at 36.5%.
Prescription-sharing is considered risky by safety experts. You may think you have the […]

Headline News
The public has been warned about pharmaceutical products sold on the Internet by unknown sources.
Now comes a warning about the kinds of products which have the most benign reputation.
The bottom line remains the same:
First, know from whom you are buying anything you swallow or put on your body.
Second, be sure your doctor knows what […]

News/Commentary
Today’s news began with the image of a man arrested, along with two others, in what may or may not have been on a trip planned to harm presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Earlier this year, one young man was apprehended.
He had a map to Camp David where the president spends many weekends.
He had much, much more. […]

News/Commentary
Each of us makes decisions every day which affect what our last years and our last hours will be like.
No, we certainly don’t have control. Many things happen no one could have done anything about. There are many ways, though, in which we can help ourselves live better, longer—-the health goal of most people closing […]

Headline News
Reports say that this data does not include statistics since the economic changes this year.
However, it is significant. It will be possible to assess the net impact of economic decline in 2008 on the uninsured more clearly. If government programs which brought about this reduction are cut, there goes the improvement out the […]

Commentary

The Washington Post
“COLLEGE OFFICIALS who have signed on to the provocative proposition that the legal drinking age of 21 isn’t working say that they just want to start a debate. Perhaps when they get done with that, they can move on to whether Earth really orbits the sun. Any suggestion that the current drinking age […]