Subjects Archives: Health

CounterSpin interview with Abdullah Shihipar on Medicare for All.

The Trump administration has cut staff, funding at agencies that track foodborne illnesses.

The current energy blockade deprives the Cuban people of resources essential for their survival. It must end immediately and unconditionally.

By Aug. 21, the Cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce sold by Taylor Farms had sickened 10,930 people in 17 states, hospitalized 454 and killed two. The illnesses began June 14 and continued through Aug. 11.

When The Jungle was published in 1906, writer and journalist Upton Sinclair hoped his novel would advance socialism by exposing the plight of the wage slave, dangerous working conditions, and the general hopelessness that undermined the working class’s struggle.

The congressional grilling of former White House Covid advisor Anthony Fauci, and the resulting editorial responses, weren’t good faith inquiries into the pandemic.

In 49 states, the number of people enrolled in Obamacare plans has declined since Congress made coverage more expensive by allowing federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year.

Under Washington’s “America First Global Health Strategy,” seven American aid workers entered a U.S. isolation facility in central Kenya in mid-July, defying weeks of local protests and Kenyan High Court orders to halt the work.

The tool is called Biomni, and it is the first general-purpose biomedical AI agent. It does not just answer questions.

Nearly 7,000 cases are confirmed or under investigation across 34 states since May 1, and states have reported at least 180 hospitalizations.

An amendment to the National Food Security Act (NFSA) under which the AAY operates is about to be enacted under which instead of 35 kilogrammes per household per month, 7 kilogrammes per person per month would henceforth be distributed, up to a maximum of 35 kilogrammes per household per month.

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, framed by former Trump administration staffers and secretly endorsed by Trump himself, proposes changes in Medicare benefits that could destroy Medicare as we know it.

Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of foodborne disease. This is the predictable outcome of a food economy organised around profit rather than the right to food.

State legislatures can intervene to help control costs.

The U.S. Southern Command dispatched the amphibious transport ship USS Fort Lauderdale and the littoral combat ship USS Billings to Venezuelan waters, along with C-17 Globemaster and C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. 

In addition to seeing it as a fix to healthcare, they see it as a major step in fixing an economy that President Trump has been rapidly ruining.

Years after facing Russian disinformation accusations, the outgoing DNI released records on 120 U.S.-funded foreign biolabs.

Forty-six percent of U.S. adults–regardless of insurance type–reported struggling to afford healthcare last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research think tank.

“While working families struggle to feed their families, Republicans are cutting funding for fruit and vegetable vouchers for women, infants, and children,” said Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro.

In 2015, Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of a single pill of Daraprim, an antiparasitic drug used by cancer and HIV/AIDS patients, from $13.50 to $750.00.