Thomas N. Seyfried received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Biochemistry from the University of Illinois. He did his undergraduate work at the University of New…
University of Illinois at Chicago
The reality of the disposable American has been building up in recent years, and new evidence keeps pouring in. Now the potential exists for greater suffering under the rule…
Virtually zero.’ That’s a reasonable estimate of the probability that public health authorities in the foreseeable future will successfully curb the worldwide epidemics of obesity…
The life expectancy for Americans has declined for the first time in 23 years. Data from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that the…
A decades-long trend of rising life expectancy in the U.S. could be ending: It declined last year and it is no better than it was…
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Student loan debt may negatively impact young people's ability to accumulate wealth after they graduate or drop out of college, a new…
"Many doctors overprescribe painkillers because they have relationships with pharmaceutical companies and they get pay offs," said James Petras, a professor emeritus of sociology atBinghamton University in Binghamton,…