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This In Motion Magazine section is co-edited by Molly Spira and covers healthcare issues.
Feature articles:
Full list of Healthcare articles:
- Navajo Uranium Miners Fight for Compensation
Timothy Benally Sr., Shiprock, Navajo Nation, New Mexico
- Update on Kanaka Maoli (indigenous Hawaiian) Health
" ... regain control over their lands and other natural resources, their lives, their future and thus, their health in their homeland."
Kekuni Blaisdell, M.D., Honolulu, Hawai'i
- Historical and Philosophical Aspects of Lapa'an -
Traditional Kanaka Maoli Healing Practices
Hawaiian independence leader details history of Hawaiian medicine
and its relationship to the political / cultural history of the Hawaiian people.
Kekuni Blaisdell, M.D., Honolulu, Hawai'i
- National Environmental Trust Welcomes Mattel’s Commitment to Replace Phthalate-Containing Material in Toys
by Nora Cody
Oakland, California
- New Zeneca Ad Campaign Misleading to Women
Women concerned about breast cancer are being bombarded
with a massive advertising campaign for the drug tamoxifen
by Nora Cody
Oakland, California
- First Evidence of 3rd Generation Effects from DES
"Landmark study confirms the need for better screening
and testing of the 86,000 synthetic chemicals in use today."
Nora Cody,
Oakland, California
- "My Year of Meats" by Ruth L. Ozeki
A book review by Nora Cody
Oakland, California
- Doctor claims new drug (Evista) poses risk for ovarian cancer
Nora Cody, Oakland, California
- Household Pesticides and Risk of Pediatric Brain Tumor
Nora Cody, Oakland, California
- DES given to young "too tall" girls in appalling medical experiment
Nora Cody, Oakland, California
- Environmental Estrogen - Global Problem
A model for study of exposure to pollutants around the world
by Pat Cody
Berkeley, California
- Ohio Decision Against DES Daughters
An update on the ongoing efforts for compensation from drug companies who produced DES
by Pat Cody
Berkeley, California
- "The Breast Cancer Prevention Program", Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
Book Review by Pat Cody, Berkeley, California
- Our Stolen Future - A Book Review
Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?
-- A Scientific Detective Story
Pat Cody, Berkeley, California
- "A Cowboy in the Meat Business"
Colorado ranch produces meat free of growth-promoting hormones, anti-biotics
Interview with Mel Coleman, Sr.
and photo series by Nic Paget-Clarke.
Denver and Saguache, Colorado
- Moving Forward: The Challenge for People with Disabilities
Joanne Cosenza, San Francisco, California
- Genetic engineering and Maori health
Different ways of managing and understanding knowledge
Interview with Fiona Cram and Glenis Philip-Barbara
Auckland, Aotearoa / New Zealand
- Nuking America's Dirty Food:
Another Assault on Public Health & Consumer Choice
- An Opinion on Food Irradiation -
Ronnie Cummins
Little Marais, Minnesota
- Monsanto and Fox TV Unite to Suppress Journalists'
Free Speech on Hazards of Genetically Engineered
Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH or rBST)
Ronnie Cummins
Little Marais, Minnesota
- More Biotech Blunders: Mutant Cotton, Supercharged Cigarettes, and Cows
Ronnie Cummins, Little Marais, Minnesota
- Monsanto and Friends' Biotech Blunders and Disasters Continue
Ronnie Cummins, Little Marais, Minnesota
- U.S. Organic Sales Boom as Consumer Alarm Over Food Safety Increases
Ronnie Cummins, Little Marais. Minnesota
- New Drug (Evista) Poses Risk of Ovarian Cancer
by Samuel S. Epstein M.D. & Pat Cody
Chicago, Illinois / Oakland, California
- Social Security:
The closer we look at privatization the riskier it seems
by Steve Gorin
Canterbury, New Hampshire
- Social Security ain't broke
by Steve Gorin
Canterbury, New Hampshire
- Privatizing Social Security: Voodoo 2
by Steve Gorin
Canterbury, New Hampshire
- Taking a position on the Breaux -Thomas Medicare proposal
Without Medicare, the poverty rate among older adults
would increase significantly.
by Steve Gorin
Canterbury, New Hampshire
- Social Security and the Budget Surplus
The president's proposal would keep the surplus where it belongs,
within Social Security, and prevent it from being frittered away
on tax cuts tilted to the wealthy.
by Steve Gorin
Canterbury, New Hampshire
- The White House Conference on Social Security
Different proposals to insure Social Security’s
viability into the 21st century
by Steve Gorin
Washington, D.C.
- EMS is becoming Ghetto Medicine
We need an expanded community healthcare system
Lester Greene, New York City
- The Health Wagon in the Appalachian Mountains
Appalachians take care of their own
An interview with Sister Bernie Kenny
Dickinson County, Virginia
- The Canadian Cure
by Daniel Kraker
U.S. and Canadian healthcare systems compared
Minneapolis, Minnesota
- "Memories Come To Us In the Rain and the Wind"
(Extracts from) Oral Histories and Photographs of
Navajo Uranium Miners & Their Families
Navajo Nation - Arizona and New Mexico
- Doctor, about that medicine I saw advertised…
by Barbara Mintzes
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Mental Health Services Issues for Hispanics/Latinos in Rural America
by Jose J. Soto, JD
Lincoln, Nebraska
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