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Health Letter

Published monthly since 1985, Public Citizen's Health Letter brings you critical information about health issues — arming you with up-to-date information so you can make better health care decisions. Topics include quality of care, insurance, questionable doctors and hospitals, managed care and the recalls of drugs, devices and consumer products.

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Cumulative Alphabetical Subject index, 1985-2010

View a comprehensive list of subjects covered in Health Letter from its first issue in 1985 through the present.

Volume by Title Index, 1997-present

View titles for articles published in Health Letter since 1997. 

3 SAMPLE ISSUES available in PDF format*

January 2009, V25#1

  • Single Payer Health Care in Taiwan: Borrowing Ideas, Improving on Medicare
  • Health Letter Volume Index, 2008
  • Indulgence and Innovation in Medical Care
  • Product Recalls
  • Smokeless Tobacco: Rebranding Nicotine, Repackaging Death
  • Outrage: Full Body Scams: Not Your Source for Peace of Mind

February 2009, V25#2

  • Our Perfectly Designed U.S. Healthcare System
  • Public Citizen Endorses Single Payer National Health System, Joins Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care
  • U.S. Inmates Suffer from Chronic Illness and Poor Access to Health Care
  • Informed Consent and Shared Decision-Making
  • Product Recalls
  • Outrage: “Morning After” Contraception Too Difficult to Get

March 2009, V25#3

  • Massachusetts’ Plan: A Failed Model for Health Care Reform
  • Product Recalls
  • Having Health Insurance Does Not Mean Having Health Care
  • Public Hospitals, Community Clinics Suffering Under Massachusetts Health Care Reform
  • Outrage: Ending the Insanity of Failed State Health Insurance Reforms

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