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Public Health Policy

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    UCI Seminar Examines Fallout from Afghanistan War on Public Health Here

    ​The effects of the war in Afghanistan on that country's inhabitants, the U.S. military and geopolitics have been kicked around plenty but what about the cost to America's public health system?That topic gets its due through a UC Irvine seminar surrounding the war's 10th anniversary. It's availabl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Could Laura's Law Have Prevented The Seal Beach Shooting?

    Scott Dekraai​The list of local tragedies that might have been averted by Laura's Law is growing. Yesterday's post focused on a county-drafted and rather negative report on Laura's Law, which was thrust into the spotlight after the tragic beating death of Kelly Thomas, who suffered from ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2009
  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    UC Irvine Seeks to Cut Through Healthcare Reform Bullshit

    The AFL-CIO convention in Pittrburgh voted last night to endorse single-payer, universal healthcare for all Americans, and rU.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) just trotted out to reporters his bill to provide non-single-payer, non-universal healthcare for not-quite-all Americans. Coincidence? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2007

    Get Sicko This Saturday - Updated

    Michael Moore's new film Sicko, a comedic documentary about the U.S. health care system, opens nationwide June 29—but this Saturday (June 23), the University Town Center theater will be hosting a special sneak preview, presumably to get ahead of all the bootlegs that have been leaking out. UPDAT ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2006

    Staying the Course

    At his press conference this morning, President Bush promised yet again that when it comes to Iraq, we'll continue to push on even though we're waist deep in the Big Muddy. Elsewhere in this morning's news we find some milestones of the course on which we are staying. From the Washington Post: A te ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2006

    A Little Bit Pregnant

    Whoever said you can't be a little bit pregnant never reckoned with the can-do spirit of the Bush administration. As the Washington Post reports: New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves -- and to be treated by the health care system -- as pre-pregnant ... More >>

  • Features

    September 23, 2004

    Ouch!

    Why are county health officials in West Nile Denial?

  • Columns

    March 15, 2001

    Breaking News!

    Why are county health officials in West Nile Denial?

  • News

    October 21, 1999

    Talking Shit

    Words speak louder than action in cleaning OC beaches

  • Columns

    September 16, 1999

    Managed Scare

    Words speak louder than action in cleaning OC beaches

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