How does one properly react to being labelled a hazard to public health by the Daily Mail? Bemused laughter? Fatigued outrage? Gratitude for the compliment it almost certainly is? I do get the feeling I'm joining a rather long list. Specifically, the Mail has said that books for teenagers such as my The Knife of Never Letting Go are "so violent they need a health warning", according to Dr Ron...

When Congress is in session, Michigan Congressman John Conyers holds a regular public meeting at the Rayburn House Office Building, where, if you happen to be interested in health policy, you are welcome to join like-minded citizens in considering the merits of HR 676, also known as The National Health Insurance Bill. If signed into law, HR 676 would require a single payer (the government) to prov...

Cherrill Hicks: Reaching for a trusted home-diagnosis book can provide the answer to your health worries

Loose Tooth by Anastasia Suen Easy reader Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover/Paperback: 32 pages Publisher: Viking/Puffin Peter’s tooth is loose on picture day. Activities: Celebrate Dental Health Month with DLTK’s crafts and coloring pages. Learn more about dental health with Colgate’s coloring pages and online games. Find Dental Health Month coloring pages, crafts for kids, and ...

A post-election story last month from Bloomberg identified health insurer UnitedHealth Group as a likely winner under the Obama administration. The company would “get more customers, including some they now turn down, under Obama’s health-care plan,” the story said. . . .

“Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said Thursday that so far a breakneck schedule for writing a health care overhaul into law remains on track, with a committee markup scheduled for June and a bill on the Senate floor prior to the August recess,” CQ reported yesterday. . . .

It's time for me to hang up my NYPL ID as I head out to the great State of Washington for a new job at the Everett Public Library. There is no need to fear for the Health Information Center Blog, however, as it will be in the more then capable hands of my colleague Susan Montross who will continue to write about all things health at New York Public Library. It's been great and thanks for...

The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Rick Mayes, associate professor of public policy at the University of Richmond and co-author of Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care and the recently published Medicating Children: ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health. His entry begins: Like millions of Americans, I was raised “born again” in an evangelical environment�...

On Wednesday, the presidential candidates turned Joe Wurzelbacher into a walking metaphor for health care reform--dubbing him Joe the Plumber in hypotheticals. Despite this temporary fascination with the hospital bills and health insurance costs, the sympathetic metaphor won't last long. To get a little more perspective on the problem, GalleyCat interviewed Dr. Sherwin Nuland, author of the u...

Title: The Green Beauty Guide Author: Julie Gabriel Pages: 400 Publisher: Health Communications, Inc. Yearly Count b: 93 Genre: How to do Health and Beauty Organically. Have you ever been curious about what synthetic cosmetics and cleaners do to your body? Well, if you haven't you should be. I was a little curious, but not ready to change my low-maintenance beauty routine until I got wind of ...