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The White House's move to provide waivers for HIV-positive individuals to enter the U.S. was greeted with much praise in the HIV/AIDS community, but the devil is in the details, warns Adam Francoeur, program coordinator for the New York-based Immigration Equality. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....

Fresh Fruits and Vegetables will be available to every "Child in America," if the Women and A Few Good Men have a leadership role in the 2007 Farm Bill Debate....

Last week the Conservative Party issued “Breakdown Britain—an interim report on the state of the nation.” The document was produced by the party’s Social Justice Policy Group (SJPG), set up by Conservative leader David Cameron and chaired by former leader Iain Duncan Smith....

At the beginning of December, the Berlin Senate (city council), a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Left Party-Party of Democratic Socialism, agreed on a financial plan covering 2006 to 2010. The axis of this plan is the continuation of the strict budget consolidation that has already created a social disaster in the capital, which is unparalleled throughout Germany....

Unilever, the British-Dutch global consumer marketing products giant, is the largest producer of ice cream and frozen novelties in the U.S. Unilever's brands sold in the U.S. include Breyer's ice cream, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Klondike ice cream bars and Popsicle products....

A startling decrease in US breast cancer rates in 2003 may be attributable to the fact that millions of older women stopped using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in 2002, according to researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center....

One of the worst droughts of the past century is having a devastating impact on farmers and rural communities across much of Australia....

Most Americans were probably too busy shopping until they dropped to notice, but the U.S. Conference of Mayors just released its latest findings on hunger and homelessness in America. It's not full of holiday cheer. It also doesn't tell you anything you don't already know. Unless you've been comatose for at least the last decade. According to the report, more people were hungry and homeless in this country in 2006 than they were in 2005. Over the past several years, the number of people in ne...

I am a practicing internist proposing a hybrid health insurance plan. This plan, among others has been proposed to the "Citizen's Health Care Working Group" which has recently made proposals for universal health care which have been re-worked by Senator Wyden so as to exclude the possibility of voluntary government sposored health insurance. I believe people should be able to choose either private or government sponsored insurance....

We are a country of overweight people. Americans are tipping the scales in record numbers, with approximately 130 million who are presently considered overweight or obese. Perhaps most alarmingly of all, half of all women aged 20 to 39 in the United States are included in these figures. Many factors contribute to the growing problem, from our sedentary lifestyles to our overindulgence in high-energy, low nutritional foods. Dealing with the crisis is not easy. The marketing of energy dense foo...