Subjects Archives: Health

The advocacy organization is welcoming the for-profit takeover of its members’ national health insurance program—because it earns hundreds of millions as part of the deal.

China was once the world’s highest producer of soybeans, accounting for about 90% of the total. Currently, 60 percent of global soybean exports are destined for the Chinese market.

Though now one of the most famous and ubiquitous antibiotics, penicillin was once so scarce that doctors had to recycle it from their patients’ urine for reinjection. But once mass production was possible, such restraint ended. Today, antibiotic use is astonishingly inefficient.

The latest annual climate conference has begun in the face of a worsening climate crisis and further retreats by rich nations following the energy crisis induced by NATO sanctions after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Increased consumption of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) was associated with more than 10% of all-cause premature, preventable deaths in Brazil in 2019. That is the finding of a new peer-reviewed study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

In 1973-74 the Planning Commission in India had defined poverty as the inability to access 2400 calories per person per day in rural India (in practice however it applied a lower 2200 calories norm), and 2100 calories per person per day in urban India.

Mabel Bellucci was integrally involved in the Argentinian abortion movement from the 1980s until the early 2000s—an era of struggle that set the stage for the recent liberalization of the country’s abortion law.

Ahead of the first United Nations environmental summit in Stockholm in 1972, a group of scientists prepared The Limits to Growth report for the Club of Rome. It showed planet Earth’s finite natural resources cannot support ever-growing human consumption.

As Mississippi considers privatizing Jackson’s water, parts of the city system already run by private companies have been left in ruins.

THE Global Hunger Index (GHI) for 2022 has just come out, which shows India occupying the 107th position among the 121 countries for which the index is prepared (countries where hunger is not a noteworthy problem are left out of the index).

Since the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, the United States has been at odds with the island’s independent path.

Despite the Affordable Care Act’s promises, publicly subsidized insurers are jacking up prices while Americans lose coverage.

Mainstream media takes on the bad news on life expectancy barely mention international comparisons — notably ignoring China and Cuba — and neglect the political and economic context of the drop, writes WT WHITNEY Jr.

As Congress helps out its private equity donors, new research shows what happens when those firms take over nursing homes and medical offices.

Passed in a referendum with 67% of the vote, the law expands women’s, children’s, and gay and lesbian legal rights.

Built on seven hills, Newton was one of America’s earliest commuter suburbs.

The crisis in low, middle-income nations is driven by speculation, falling purchasing power and depreciating currencies.

On 8th September Vernon Gonsalves, one of the 16 undertrials in the Bhima Koregaon case lodged in the anda cell of Taloja Central Jail, was diagnosed with dengue and likely pneumonia.

A recent study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry sent shockwaves across the scientific community and popular outlets as it disproved the predominant “serotonin hypothesis” of depression.

It is incumbent upon us as a species to seriously consider radical alternative, anti-capitalist and ecological futures