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By MANDY LOCKE, Raleigh News & ObserverAs youth vote grows, politicians try to cash inGREENSBORO, N.C. -- Tilden Hagan spends his days cruising college campuses trying to pick up students.His line: Let me tell you about my mom.Before they can answer, Hagan, a 25-year-old Duke University alumnus, launches into a speech about the ills of America's health-care system, its lack of financial aid for students and slow progress in making energy green.  |
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A seven-month investigation into federal mortality records reveals hundreds of thousands of death certificates filed every year in the United States are wrong, meaning we don't really know what's killing Americans.
A first-of-its-kind study also found that younger, well-educated and wealthy people are more likely to be autopsied when they die. More men than women are autopsied. And blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans are more likely to be autopsied than whites.
Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactively tainted metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world. But because of haphazard screening, an absence of oversight, and substantial disincentives for businesses to report contamination, no one knows how many tainted goods are in circulation.
A special report by Scripps Howard News Service finds as many as one in five Americans does not have a family doctor. And this translates directly to higher rates of illness and death and higher costs.
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