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Attempts to get basic information underlying poll on public support for green energy development are rebuffed.

Experts say that the cost of the failure of many states to have a variety of commonsense public health programs in place is being borne disproportionately by women.

Can "benchmarks" and "indicators" be implemented in a way to have a real impact on public policy?

New study shows shocking, regionally focused departure from upward trend in life expectancy.

But belief that gains will eventually supplant short-term pain with broadly shared prosperity (as once was the rule) isn't necessarily so.

If the current trend continues, it appears that we are on the threshold of an era in which now-treatable infectious diseases re-emerge as frequent life disrupters, and, ultimately, as major killers. For the U.S. and other developed countries, that means that fundamental expectations about the normal course of life would be exploded, and that the insecurity of the pre- World War II era — where untimely death was much more routine — would return.

Why is supporting the successful implementation of health care reform incompatible with asking for more?

Despite scientific consensus that routine, non-medical use of antibiotics in animals is a risk to public health, the industry here, unlike in Denmark, keeps fighting restrictions.

Oddly, the government does not track the occupational wages of new hires, even though many economists believe that data is crucial in analyzing the recovery.

Could public investment in a super-fast internet infrastructure be a key piece of a national economic-revival strategy?

How different are natural disasters from "man-made" disasters according to some conservative state representatives?