"This is allowing young women, empowering them" -@jehmu Green on Plan B over the counter— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 05, 2013 Wow. As Twitchy reported, a federal judge has ruled that the FDA must make the morning-after pill available to girls and women of any age — without a prescription. While many Americans are rightly… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Healthy
Want to sell a candy bar as healthy? Use a green label.
Pop quiz: Which of the candy bars below is healthier? You probably chose the top one, even though the two bars—and their accompanying labels—display exactly the same information. The key difference, as one new study in the journal Health Communications finds, is simply the color of the accompanying labels. Labels like the ones above might… Read more »
Robert Z. Lawrence: ‘A really healthy U.S. economy will have a bigger trade deficit.’
Robert Z. Lawrence is Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He served on President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1999 to 2001, and writes frequently on issues surrounding globalization and trade policy. His latest book, coauthored with the University of Cape Town’s Lawrence Edwards, is… Read more »
Getting healthy: Michelle Obama hosts dinner meeting at DC pizza parlor
Every now and then, even Michelle Obama deserves a big slice of pizza. However, as with many Obama outings, she chose exactly the wrong time. Earlier today, the first lady held a highly publicized Google hangout promoting her ”Let’s Move” campaign to end obesity. Yet tonight, she’s holding a dinner meeting at Capitol Hill’s popular We… Read more »