Don’t let pharma make us pay twice for COVID-19 treatments
The research we’ve funded is going to be critical in the coming months. We’ve already paid for it. Let’s demand that Congress change the law so that we don’t have to pay again.
A people’s vaccine? Drugmakers set to profit from COVID vaccines made with publicly funded...
“The investment in these vaccines, as for most drugs, has really been underwritten by the taxpayer, by the government.”
The dangerous misuse of ‘natural immunity’ against COVID vaccination
It continues to delay full reopening and prolongs the state of fear that has many people wearing masks, even when there’s no mandate, or reason, to do so.
The global seafood supply is being contaminated by microplastics, but major news outlets are...
Our addiction to plastic is having negative effects all along the food chain.
EPA launches civil rights investigation into Jackson, Mississippi, water crisis
“We believe we gave compelling evidence that the state of Mississippi intentionally starved the city of Jackson of the resources to maintain its water infrastructure.”
Exxon, Peabody coal lobby for bill poised to load EPA science board with polluters
“That is a science advisory board – it will not function better by having fewer scientists on it."
Millions Could Lose Obamacare Coverage as Supreme Court Weighs Dubious Koch-Backed Case
Behind the billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch, Competitive Enterprise Institute sued the government in a new challenge to Obamacare. And it's all over an aspect of the law dealing with tax subsidies. Now millions of people's healthcare coverage is in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Millions of Americans cross the U.S.-Mexico border for health care: The health care crisis...
At a checkpoint in Yuma, Arizona, around 6,000 Americans cross into Los Algodones, Mexico daily for health care reasons – predominantly dental care.
Why mental health education should be mandatory
Emily Weinberg was 15 when she was hospitalized for depression and anxiety and 16 when she founded Sophrosyne Mental Health—a resource for...
How the Federal Government can protect workers on the front lines of the COVID-19...
Instead, people on the front lines have to fight for their own health and safety even while they care for their patients.








