Wis. governor candidate avoids stem cell questionsSan Francisco ChronicleThe Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor won't say whether he would seek a ban on embryonic stem cell research. But one of the leaders of Pro-Life Wisconsin says Scott Walker told his group that he would support such a ban. View full post on Health – Google [...]

Judge upholds health care lawDetroit Free PressA federal judge in Detroit upheld key provisions of President Barack Obama's landmark health care reform law on Thursday. In a 20-page decision, US District Judge George Steeh refused to issue an injunction to …Judge: Health-care law is constitutionalWashington PostKey Part Of Barack Obama's Healthcare Law Upheld By U.S. [...]

A report from the Commonwealth Fund finds that, although our health care costs have have increased at twice the rate, our gains in life expectancy, over the last 30 years, have lagged behind the 12 other countries in the study. White women fared the worst of all groups. The usual suspects of obesity, smoking, traffic [...]

New Report Reveals Factory Fish Farms are Damaging the Environment and Draining Tax Dollars, Yet are Still Planned for a 900 Percent Increase by 2013 Open ocean aquaculture (OOA) operations, also known as factory fish farms, are damaging Hawaii’s ocean ecosystems, impeding Native Hawaiian cultural practice, and sapping the local economy, according to the Pono [...]

Obama White House: Health care today, unemployment next week USA Today Health care is dominating White House attention today, but odds are a week from now it will shift back to another familiar issue. The US Labor Department issues the nation’s unemployment rate on the first Friday of each month, and next week brings … [...]

Obama stands firm on health care overhaul MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — President Obama used his weekly address Saturday to reiterate support for attempts to overhaul the US health-care system. The remarks came at the end of a week that saw Obama unveil his blueprint for … View full post on Health – Google News

Speaking of the new Obama budget Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sibleius focused, in part, on prevention and a switch from sick care to real health care. “To help more Americans live healthy lifestyles, our budget continues the work of rebuilding our public health infrastructure. What we have today is a sick care [...]

In news that clearly shows where the big health insurance firms stand on any health care reform, according to a report in the National Journal online edition, six large health insurers secretly funded television ads attacking health care reform. Insiders say something between $10 million and $20 million, came from Aetna, Cigna, Humana, Kaiser Foundation [...]

House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.

Here is the trascript of President Obama’s address regarding health care to the United States Congress: #### Madam Speaker, Vice President Biden, members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs [...]