Nation Topics - Health | The Nation

Almost three times as many people, most of them in tropical countries of the Third World, die of preventable, curable diseases as die of AIDS.

How will we know when women have achieved equality? Male politicians will all be bachelors.

Emergency contraception has the potential to revolutionize women's relationship to sex and birth control.

Beverly Enterprises controls more than 60,000 nursing-home beds, more than any other company worldwide.

Research assistance was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.

In seven novels and a collection of essays published since 1981, Sarah Schulman has methodically chronicled the history of her longtime neighborhood, Manhattan's East Village.

The US Department of Agriculture plans to eradicate three species of fruit fly in Hawaii by spraying suspected carcinogens and mutagens on the islands.