Outsiders looking in, this one is for you. The Arizona Bioethics Network’s webinar series marks a year’s worth of successful sessions by holding one for the hidden neophyte in all of us titled Medical Ethics for the Beginner…the Befuddled…the Bewildered: Where to Start?

Watch this: a visually compelling, greatly simplified, dramatically poignant take on the food system packed into a two-and-a-half minute video nutshell. (Plus, Willie Nelson singing a song by the band ColdPlay, which is one of the more amusing musical tricks pulled off in some time.) Some will note cynically that this production is funded by [...]

There’s virtue – and genius – in flipping perspective on a problem in order to more cost effectively and elegantly solve it. Of all the entities we could suggest to find inspiration on how to save the big bucks, NASA might be the last place you’d look. It turns out the space agency built a [...]

Finally, a diet that works – on multiple levels. The road diet has come to Phoenix, specifically to a stretch of Central Avenue. Taz Loomans is urging that we “become a part of the emerging Phoenix experience outside of your car,” but that’s not the only reason to understand and support the concept. As planners [...]

Food system cracks have been showing themselves for some time, making safe and sustainable solutions like the humble kitchen garden plot a health priority. The gardening that supplied 26 percent of U.S. produce during World War II has lately become a challenging and nearly-forgotten skill at best, and a crime at worst (a Detroit-area woman [...]

Arizona, affectionately dubbed “the baby of the great family” when it became the 48th state, turns 100 this month looking less like a baby and more like a somewhat crazy, gun-toting uncle (we are one of two states with an official state gun). National media coverage of Arizona has most recently featured a polarizing sheriff, [...]

Good health isn’t about individual choice by any stretch, but that doesn’t mean we’re dismissed from being smarter and more responsible in working to obtain and maintain it. Enter Fooducate, a website and mobile app developed with the intention of informing food choices. Typing in and/or capturing a product’s barcode via mobile phone camera returns [...]

No matter what your individual experience has been since the new millenium dawned, it’s relatively safe to say that things certainly haven’t been boring. Events of uncommon scale and scope have permeated, punctuated and often punctured our lives, and the health and human services sector has seen its own share of instability, conflict, pressures and [...]

Those searching for the next health improvement ‘silver bullet’ are advised by Dan Buettner of the Blue Zones Project℠ to consider “silver buckshot:” creating healthy communities by integrating policy, built environment, social networks, structural context and people’s sense of purpose. Buettner calls ‘bullets’ like individual responsibility and the diet/exercise combination insufficient on their own, pointing [...]

If a family that’s been tightening its belt comes upon a little extra cash, would it typically use it to pay off the mortgage or take care of the kids? That question crossed our minds when the FY ‘13 Executive Budget proposed allocating some of Arizona’s current budget surplus funds toward buying back Capitol buildings [...]