Results for Public Opinion

Read the Obituary and view the Guest Book, leave condolences or send flowers. | Terry L. Musselman Terry Lester Musselman, DPM, age 57 of Chambersburg, PA died unexpectedly at his home on Monday, March 2, 2015. Born May 16, 1957 in Chambersburg, PA he was the son of Lester A.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-April 8, 2013-A new national public opinion poll commissioned by Research!America shows only 18% of respondents believe chronic pain is a major health problem, even though a majority of Americans (63%) say they know someone who experienced pain so severe that they sought prescription medicines to treat it. Chronic pain conditions affect about 100 million U.S. adults at a cost of approximately $600 billion annually in direct medical treatment costs and lost productivity.

Exit polls have been a part of Election Day since the 1970s, according to the American Association for Public Opinion Research.

I spent the afternoon hours of August 11, 2014 on a plane six and a half miles off the ground, wholly (albeit briefly) disconnected from the constant refresh of life in the digital age. As I landed in Austin, I was bombarded with texts: Robin Williams, the man who gave life to beloved characters like Aladdin's Genie, Mork from Ork, and Mrs. Doubtfire, had died by suicide
Like most of you, I felt I'd lost a dear friend. Like some of you, my…

April 4, 2017 at 11:30 AM
Cassady Baker, 5, participates in a march in Flint, Mich., aimed at bringing attention to the city's water crisis. (Mac Snyder/Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
For the past year and a half, Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton have been ringing the alarm about rising mortality among middle-aged white Americans
The pair have attracted a bit of controversy for pointing…

How We Talk about It Matters
September 16, 2015
By: Marla Hendriksson , M.P.M., Director, Office of Communications, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Every day the media helps influence public attitudes and opinions. It matters how behavioral health conditions are covered by journalists, screen writers, editors, producers, and others in the news and entertainment industries
This guide provides relevant and useful information to the…

Lecture Abstract
Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death in the world, accounting for 5 million deaths worldwide per year. Evidence on the health harms of tobacco began to accumulate in the post-war period and was first brought together in the 1962 Royal College of Physician’s report Smoking and Health followed 2 years later by an equivalent Surgeon General’s report in the USA. Governments around…

Commentary and opinion, op-ed from the pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com.

The disabled deserve the chance to work, save and be as independent as they can

The Illinois Supreme Court granted new hearings for its juvenile lifers. It’s time for other states to follow suit

If you’re one of the 13 million Americans suffering from back pain, neck pain or sciatica (pain running down your leg), your doctor may recommend surgery to relieve your discomfort. While surgery can be life-changing for the better, it certainly isn’t a decision to be taken lightly. Surgery comes with its own risks and doesn’t …

A new, innovative, health-care facility is under construction and slated to open this spring at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.

Roll a die. Then roll another one. They’ll come up the same one out of six times
Go to a primary care provider. Ask the Mayo Clinic for a second opinion. The diagnoses will be the same one out of eight times.
That result from a new study doesn’t mean doctors are less reliable than dice. After all, the study only considered diagnoses that were taken to the Mayo Clinic, which most cases aren’t. These are likely to be complex, unusual, and high-stakes…

James Comey’ testimony about Russia, Trump and the election, should solidify his reputation as the most significant FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover.

Republican lawmakers need to do more than dream of tax cuts and enable President Donald Trump, who cannot be trusted in a crisis, Walter Shapiro writes.

Could society have done more to help Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who crashed Germanwings Flight 9525?

Selling the Republicans’ health care bill once it was written is undoubtedly the job of HHS Secretary Tom Price. And in that crucial role, Price has failed.

This particular budget doesn’t just set the terms of a debate, it draws the lines of battle between the parties.

The following commentary is provided by Simon Keller, a professor of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington.

In the early 1980s until the mid- to late 1990s, HIV/AIDS was a death sentence. That is no longer the case, but laws and public attitudes have failed to keep up.