Is the “Whole Foods Boycott” impacting the company’s financials? Not yet. (Image via Creative Commons)

BY KATIE ROGERS – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Nearly 29,000 people now subscribe to a Facebook group calling for a boycott of Whole Foods Market Inc. since CEO John Mackey wrote an op-ed against proposed methods [...]

By KELLEN M. HENRY and JORDAN MELNICK– MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius hosted a roundtable discussion about health care reform, announcing a $1.2 billion award of stimulus funds for electronic records at the Sinai Community Institute on Thursday. Listen below as [...]

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BY JORDAN MELNICK – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

There’s no question about it: Obamacare is officially under siege. While the president might have hoped August would be a quiet month with Congress in recess, it has been anything but. Early in the month, there were reports of fervent protests at [...]

BY JORDAN MELNICK — MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) cited “serious concerns” over a House proposal to have drug companies pay a rebate on certain medications provided under Medicare.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Under the proposed rebates, drug makers would pay back [...]

Those who are in desperate need of health insurance due to lay-offs or pre-existing conditions are willing to set up their own businesses and pay the higher costs of group health insurance. (The Sacramento Bee)

BY FELICE BAKER – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

A growing trend among those who [...]

BY BRIDGET MACDONALD - MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

More than 400 people flocked to Chicago’s Harold Washington Library Center Monday evening, hungry for kernels of wisdom from watchdog food writer Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.”

In the program, a conversation with [...]

BY BRIDGET MACDONALD - MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

In the wake of a succession of food safety scares over the past few years involving the likes of tomatoes, spinach and peanuts, the House Agricultural Committee is taking a preemptive strike against food contamination in the expanding field of organic production.

The subcommittee on

More than three-quarters of the lowest-wage workers in Illinois have no paid sick leave at all. (n!ck/FLICKR)

BY LESLIE PATTON - MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

As of Tuesday morning, there have been 286 laboratory confirmed cases of the swine flu, now referred to as influenza A (H1N1)infection by [...]

BY SIDDHARTHA VAIDYANATHAN – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Few diseases have been so prevalent in the social media world as the ongoing swine flu crisis. Facebook and Twitter are flooded with messages and both sites even offer maps to show the spread of the virus. You can check out the interactive map [...]

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BY MING ZHUANG/MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

The World Health Organization on Thursday dropped the term “swine flu” as pork lobbyists have been persuading to switch the virus name in favor of saving the decline of the pork industry. The flu has a new name now–H1N1.The announcement was briefly mentioned on the [...]