Subjects Archives: Health

You’ve probably heard people say, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” There’s a lot of truth to that phrase, and it’s important to understand it as summer temperatures rise.

The deployment of electronic control devices on prisoners continues to have a human cost. Overlooking it ensures more suffering on the inside.

As of May 31, 2024, 69 herds have been impacted across nine states, according to the USDA. Health authorities are also monitoring 350 people who have been exposed, but only 40 farm workers have consented to testing.

New Mexico’s unprotected waters demonstrate how pollution, drought, and the climate crisis converge to harm communities.

Israeli doctors share prisoners’ medical information with interrogators to “greenlight” torture, teach interrogators how to inflict pain without leaving physical marks, and even actively engage in acts of torture themselves.

The New England Journal of Medicine reported the case of a Texan farmworker infected with HPAI H5N1. He suffered the hemorrhaging in the eye the cows he tended expressed.

In March, Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, reported that chickens in one of its Texas egg factories had contracted Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Type A–better known as Bird Flu. To stop the disease from spreading, the corporation slaughtered 1.6 million birds.

What if it’s not us who are sick, asks Rod Tweedy, but a system at odds with who we are as social beings?

Tenant Unionism, Public Health, and Radical Science in Connecticut.

Created by Hugo Chávez, the Great Housing Mission has reached its 13th anniversary providing housing to working-class people.

In general, the discussion around diet today is a monotonous sermon.

The IDF are just attacking hospitals and mowing down civilians and trying to bury the evidence of their crimes, so naturally we’re seeing the western political-media class focus very hard on the problem of antisemitism allegations on college campuses. Reading by Tim Foley.

Agribusiness assaults on tropical forests are driving the emergence of new diseases and epidemics.

There is a chilling parallel between what happened during the peak of the Irish famine and the current global refugee crisis.

It is time to position ourselves at the pivotal intersection where the celebration of neurodiversity meets the call for social justice.

In this first of two extracts from Terina Hine’s new book, “A People’s History of Covid”, the impact of inequality and neoliberalism in the UK on the spread of Covid is outlined

Most governments are trying to trick us into believing we don’t need to adapt to COVID-19. They can’t sustain the illusion forever.

Amid the intensifying water crisis that plagues billions of people across the world, Israel is using water as a weapon in its war against Palestinians by denying access and destroying infrastructure.

Israel has turned the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip into a charred wasteland, a slaughterhouse, a cemetery. During its two-week siege on al-Shifa Hospital, Israel destroyed “all buildings and departments without exception, in a clear crime that shames humanity,” Gaza’s government media office stated. The army withdrew at dawn on Monday, after facing […]

Covid-19 was the least unexpected pandemic in history. Why were governments not prepared?