Thousands of Washington lobbyists should really savor their Thanksgiving feast because if President Obama gets his way the gravy train may soon be offering slimmer pickings.
The White House ethics counsel has quietly introduced a new policy which forbids the more than 13,000 lobbyists in the Capitol from holding seats on more than 1,000 federal advisory [...]

The worst nightmare a mother can confront could be the knowledge that she’s poisoning the baby in her belly and there is little she can do about it.
Nine women from California, Oregon and Washington found out that was just what happened, but they learned it after their babies were born.
They were participants in a first-of-its-kind [...]

As lawmakers in Washington try to control the swirling tornado know as health care reform, a study has been released showing that thousands die each year because they have no health insurance.
What makes the fate of this group of patients even more puzzling is that they are victims of trauma and thought to be protected [...]

At last, the world’s oldest public health organization has joined the funeral dirge-paced parade to ban asbestos in the U.S.
The 50,000-member American Public Health Association adopted a resolution at its annual meeting this week calling on Congress to pass legislation banning the manufacture, sale, export, or import of asbestos-containing products including products in which asbestos [...]

Balsamic vinegar has been coveted by Italians for centuries. Over the past 30 or so years the popularity in the U.S. of the dark, syrupy ambrosia has soared and has become loved by foodies, used sparingly by chefs and often too liberally by home cooks.
Forgetting the exquisite culinary joy that comes with the almost magical [...]

In what appears to be important news for victims of traumatic brain injury and stroke, the tropical spice cinnamon has been found to prevent brain cells from swelling.
The swelling is a condition in which fluid either accumulates within brain cells or is retained in blood vessels that form around brain cells.

You have to wonder a bit about the Environmental Protection Agency’s often-stated promise of transparency and openness to its employee’s opinions.
It appears that the rigidness that marked much of the Bush administration’s control of the EPA has returned, as the agency has threatened “disciplinary action” against two of its lawyers for comments they made [...]

A team of British researchers is raising new and serious questions about the health risks posed by nanoparticles.

They are bacteria-killers, more and more common in products we use every day and at least a million of them will fit on the head of a pin. But are silver nanoparticles safe?
Little is known about the health effects of these inventions.

I was in a grocery store yesterday when yells and curses drew me to the cereal aisle, where two women seemed to be having a total nut-out.  One was stomping on several brightly colored cereal boxes and the other was waving a box of the same cereal in the face of anyone who paused long [...]