This City Wants to Ban Junk Food From Vending Machines
New legislation would nix unhealthy items from property owned by the city of San Francisco.
Are federal guidelines for prescribing opioids hurting patients with chronic pain?
This month, more than 300 doctors and medical researchers sent an open letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning patients have been harmed by a lack of clarity in guidelines for prescribing opioids.
Real people will lead the way to #MedicareForAll
Seniors chanting “Get out of the way!” as they hold cardboard tombstones might not seem like a challenge to the largest physicians’...
Even Trump voters are pissed about losing Obamacare
It still isn’t straightforward as to what the Republicans can actually do to Obamacare without some support from the Democrats.
OxyContin drug maker pleads guilty to federal criminal charges
"Today’s guilty plea comes too late for the millions of lives that Purdue’s crimes destroyed over the past decade.”
An easier way to get to universal health care
Now is the time to push for better health care. Here are three modest, winnable first steps.
Big Pharma company that is trying to keep pot illegal was just approved to...
“It appears they are trying to kill a non-pharmaceutical market for marijuana in order to line their own pockets.”
We gave Pharma a blank check, now we’re paying the bill
We can and should ask our policymakers to rewrite the rules of our economy and rebuild a pharmaceutical industry that is designed to serve the needs of patients, not profits.
California to officially list key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup as cancer-causing
Glyphosate continues to be at the center of a number of controversies.
The US is taking a bite out of its food insecurity – here’s one...
This increase in SNAP benefits would still not lead to a food-secure diet in many places because of high local food prices.