Subjects Archives: Health

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?

Health activists and scientists in Europe met to develop strategies to build regional public pharmaceutical infrastructure as pandemic lessons seems lost on governments and producers.

In the shadow of Covid-19, bigotry paints the Chinese identity as synonymous with disease and subversion—discriminatory policies, from visa restrictions to TikTok bans, have been ramped up ever since, writes FIONA SIM.

Caracas communards and campesino organizations are building ties through fair-price food distribution.

There is no doubt that we live in perilous times. The COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukrainian war, the environmental crisis, the care crisis, the cost of living crisis, the migration crisis, and now the unfolding disaster in the Middle East continue to pile up chaotically.

Relentless evolution creates ‘resilient, dangerous foes’ in the Anthropocene.

In the face of looming famine, Biden’s promise to build a ‘temporary pier’ to allow aid into Gaza is hollow, undermined by his country’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestine.

The Failing Battle for Health and Healthcare in These All Too Disunited States.

In our time, pandemics will occur more often, spread more rapidly, and kill more people.

Greenland, part of Denmark, was a colony until 1953, after which it became a province of the Scandinavian country.

Two students from Venezuela’s ELAM medical school talk about becoming physicians in the service of the people.

My first encounter with Israel’s role in genocide happened while caring for patients, not in Palestine but in California.

Too many U.S. workers still suffer and die from exposure to well-known toxic substances, a Texas investigative reporter’s new book says.

The increase reverses a 15-year trend. And unwanted pregnancies will rise, researchers predict.

Public health cannot be individualized. Abandoning collective approaches to disease mitigation is a recipe for disaster.

The dictatorship in Argentina—one of the cruelest and bloodiest in the region—was in full swing. Among the thirty thousand disappeared by the state were an estimated five hundred babies and children, either taken along with their parents or born in the camps under brutal, inhumane conditions. Their grandmothers would do anything to find them.

The poisonous waste, and deadly carbon emissions produced by oilsands production is even worse than had been thought, and production must stop, argues John Clarke.