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Op-ed: Reports address Indiana’s poor health rankings

There are clear advancements in the health of Indiana’s economy, yet the health of our residents is lagging. While Indiana ranks among the top states for cost of doing business and infrastructure, it’ ... read more

Our Opinion: Raise Indiana's cigarette tax for health's sake

The group says the change also would generate up to $350 million a year in new revenue that could be used to tackle other Hoosier health issues, such as drug addiction and infant mortality. There’s no ... read more

Reports Tally Heavy Toll Levied by Opioids, Tobacco

Fiddian-Green says "these two addiction challenges are root causes of Indiana's poor health outcomes and burdensome healthcare costs. All Hoosiers must realize the urgency and work together to address ... read more

Mike Pence put ideology before science — and the people of Indiana suffered

CREDIT: AP PHOTO/DARRON CUMMINGS The need for a greater statewide emphasis on public health is clear: A 2015 report from America’s Health Rankings placed Indiana 41 out of 50 ... check,” he wrote in a... read more

'Road show' focuses on Indiana's public health challenges

An Indiana ... overall health, according to the 2017 America’s Health Ranking annual report. The state ranks 34th in drug deaths; 40th in obesity; 41st in percentage of smokers; 42nd in infant mortali... read more

NBA Power Rankings as the 2017-18 Regular Season Begins

Zach LaVine's recovery from ACL surgery will keep him out of contact drills until at least late November ... In good news for the Bulls, they seem committed to shooting lots of threes. After ranking s... read more

Ten years later, Huntington drops the 'fattest city' title

Huntington led the nation's 142 metros in a half-dozen other poor-health indicators ... counties in Kentucky and Ohio as the CDC's annual reports do. According to the County Health Rankings, a program ... read more

Gallup and Healthways Release 2016 State Well-Being Rankings

Residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Indiana ... report, visit www.well-beingindex.com/2017-state-rankings. In 2008, Gallup and Healthways initiated a 25-year partnership merging decades ... read more

Report: N.M. lags in helping kids with learning disabilities

In a survey of students with learning disabilities who had dropped out of school, a wide majority said they didn’t like school and cited poor relationships with ... a practice that may have affected i... read more

Measure schools by the well-being of their individual kids

In addition to academic performance, all good schools would have a report card that assures and rates age-appropriate growth in such areas as: dignity and self-worth, cognitive skills, academic perfor... read more

Inequality Kills

Inequality kills through structural violence. There is no smoking gun with this form of violence, which simply produces a lethally large social and economic gap between rich and poor. If we face the g... read more

1 Player Every NBA Team Should Already Be Targeting at the Trade Deadline

So why not trade from a position of strength to address weakness ... Beverley is a health risk, having missed all but 11 games last year before undergoing microfracture and meniscus surgery. ESPN's Ad... read more