Subjects Archives: Health

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.

The modern food system is being shaped by the capitalist imperative for profit.

Chemicals leaching from plastics are leaving Americans notably sicker and poorer, according to a new study found.

Question – How do quality of care and patient outcomes change after private equity acquisition of hospitals?

Hundreds flee Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza amid a deteriorating humanitarian situation across the enclave as Israel presses its assault.

Updated statistics on pulmonology consultations show 26.2% of patients with exacerbated asthma; 11.9% with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; 11.4% with acute bronchitis; 9.7% with influenza; and 7.8% with pneumonia.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says northern Gaza has been left with no functional hospital, and only four operate at a minimum level, providing limited care.

Israel carries out unprecedented attacks against health workers and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, bulldozing hospital grounds and detaining doctors.

Every year, thousands of healthcare workers leave South Africa, in order to chase better opportunities, as wealthier countries exploit desperate working conditions faced by them. This brain drain is a direct result of neoliberal policies, especially austerity.

Pharmanomics is an important book that shows how Big Pharma’s profit seeking damages health care globally, but the solution lies outside the current system, argues John Clarke

Among the various types of anthropogenic clouds, mushroom clouds that form in the sky after atomic bomb explosions are arguably the most spectacular.

Some 85 percent of staff of the National Health Service and private medical facilities stayed away from work.

Food theft isn’t an indicator of criminality, but of a failing social system.

No federal heat standard exists and lobbyists, corporate interests and those with fiercely anti-regulatory agendas have been vocal and active in keeping it that way.

Although Mexico has maintained a ban on genetically modified (GM) corn since the 1990s, the move by Mexican President Andres Manuel Luiz Obrador (AMLO) in 2020 to eventually ban the import of GM corn in order to promote domestic cultivation of native varieties has threatened to spark a trade war with the United States.