Subjects Archives: Health

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

Recent data shows that between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy (LE) in the US plunged almost three years while for Cuba it edged up 0.2 years.

Life expectancy is one of the best measures of human development. 

The right is now trying to use a Rhode Island case to get the high court to create a federal abortion ban.

Four and a half million people. That’s how many Chinese people would have died from Covid-19 had its government taken the same approach to the pandemic that the United States has taken, and gotten the same results.

In 2022, in the richest country the world has ever seen, Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, has no water for drinking, cooking, bathing, flushing a toilet, or fighting a fire. As of this moment, the situation is predicted to continue “indefinitely.”

A Miami Prisoner is Among Those Who Believe That U.S. Prison Authorities Are Trying to Kill Them.

In just five minutes we’ll tell you what you need to know about the shadowy power of pharmacy benefit managers.

In March 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine.

The New Jersey TV doctor wants to privatize Medicare—and tax workers to boost the profits of insurance giants whose stock he owns.

Cuban scientists have announced the next stage of research on NeuralCIM, a neuroprotective drug for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.