Subjects Archives: Health

Today, SCOTUS released its ruling on Skrmetti, allowing Tennessee to ban transgender healthcare. The ruling was both devastating and limited, leaving many fights unsettled.

On the first day of the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France, the findings of a new study have revealed that ocean acidification (OA)—which damages ecosystems like coral reefs—is not only getting worse, but crossed its “planetary boundary” roughly five years ago.

CounterSpin interview with Erin Reed on trans care ‘questions’.

There are a million ways to slice and dice both a universal Medicare plan and also the transition, which will pose real problems. However, it is important any plan be comprehensive. That doesn’t mean it has to cover the plastic surgery needed to give people the Mar-a-Lago look, but it does need to cover areas like dental, vision, and hearing, which are excluded from traditional Medicare.

Prime minister says Israel has photographs of thousands of unclothed prisoners, an ‘indication’ of sufficient food, as experts warn of looming famine.

Enough food is produced to meet the needs of 11 billion people. Why do so many of the 8 billion people on the planet go hungry?

The Israeli and U.S. aid distribution maneuver sparked chaos among desperate, starving Palestinians and Israeli forces responded by killing at least five.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed alarm on Monday over the increasing risk of famine in the Gaza Strip, where “two million people are starving,” according to him.

The Israeli military’s targeting of rescue teams and paramedics during efforts to evacuate the wounded and extract survivors trapped under rubble in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, constitutes a compound war crime.

In a massive attack on the working class, on Sunday, House Republicans confirmed that their main proposal for offsetting some of their planned $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and mega-corporations will come in the form of at least $880 billion in cuts to social programs, centered on Medicaid.

We might soon see the Trump Administration impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals. U.S. patients will suffer.

The Trump administration’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget calls for up to $880 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over the next 10 years to help fund massive tax cuts for the rich.

Understanding media coverage of healthcare price battles.

Israel last year passed a law that banned UNRWA from operating in the country.

“The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is not just an economic issue, it is literally a matter of life and death,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on March 2 that “Israel has decided to stop letting goods and supplies into Gaza,” where the ongoing Israeli genocide, with the loyal backing of the United States, has officially killed more than 51,000 Palestinians since October 2023.

Caused by a parasite which is spread by infected mosquitoes, malaria has killed billions during thousands of years of human history.

The squatter and RFK Jr. have it all figured out—except for the figured out part.

Recent research shows that the national average rate of maternal deaths is now 32.6 per 100,000 live births, with much higher rates seen for Indigenous mothers with 106.3 deaths, and Black mothers with 76.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, respectively.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to end Cuba’s international medical brigades, which have provided essential healthcare to millions of people across the globe.