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...these caveats merely create a whole new layer of confusion for consumers - which they easily could - the authors of Know Your Chances offer two more tools. The first is a simple guide to credible sources of health stats, including the Center for Medical Consumers and Informed Health Online. The second is a pair of simple questions we should all ask ourselves before we make a medical decision: Does the drug or treatment we're considering have any important risks and does it offer a reasonably good chance of doing us real good? A yes to the first...
...Congress debates health-care reform, American families are already picking up the tab for universal health coverage. That's the finding of a new report released March 24 by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington-based liberal think tank...
Apartheid may have collapsed 15 years ago, but the forced evictions of blacks and mixed-race people from the city center during the 1960s left its mark as much in music as in everything else. Even now, musicians living on the Cape Flats, the massive expanse of gritty slums and working-class townships to which nonwhite Capetonians were removed, find themselves isolated from the city and from each other. "What we're doing through music and culture is trying to contribute to our urban regeneration," says Coffeebeans Routes co-founder Iain Harris...
Start with the space: a grand, high-ceilinged dining room in downtown's Hotel California, with a black-and-white tile floor, lush faux-leather booths, refurbished chandeliers and, at its center, an inviting horseshoe bar. This is the second home for the restaurant founded by chef Eric Tucker - a wunderkind whose interest in healthy eating was spurred by a youthful passion for long-distance running and the realization that he was hypoglycemic. (See pictures of San Francisco...
...attention had turned to Colombia's cocaine industry. When Colombian authorities seized 600 kilos of cocaine hidden in everything from shoeboxes to a dog cage containing a live dog, drug traffickers retaliated by killing 40 people in one weekend. Nicknamed the "Medellin Massacre" after the city at the center of Colombia's drug trade, the murders ignited years of raids, kidnappings, and assassinations (a 1985 Medellin cartel "hit list" even included names of U.S. businessmen, embassy members and journalists...