‘Terrified to go to work’: Hundreds of workers in meat & poultry plants test...
Meanwhile, deaths of slaughterhouse workers have been reported in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Colorado.
Study links childhood residential proximity to polluted St. Louis creek with increased risk of...
The study's findings examined baby teeth to investigate proximity to the creek and cancer risk.
PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ exposure linked to increased risk of ovarian and other cancers
“These chemicals can increase the risk of various different health outcomes and they can alter your biological pathways… That is important to know so that we can better prevent exposures and mitigate risks.”
America wants health care, not walls
We can only hope that the Democrats who won a new mandate on health care in November will now find the courage to deliver on big ideas like in-state single-payer programs, and push for Medicare for All at the federal level.
Failure to protect: policing mental illness in North America
The current moment requires that we recognize the crises of mental health and very likely homelessness that will come about as a result of the global pandemic and that we call upon authorities to prepare to deal with them in a more humane way than they have in the past.
Pandemic lessons for the rest of us
Or vaccine thinking applied to all of American life...
Honeybee venom kills aggressive breast cancer cells, study shows
“It provides another wonderful example of where compounds in nature can be used to treat human diseases.”
The great forgetting
Why we forget epidemics and why this one must be remembered...
This chart shows why social distancing works
It’s all about the timing.
Two days after Pfizer’s hopeful vaccine news, 82% of doses already bought by world’s...
"Unless we break the stranglehold of these massive corporations over our medicines, the injustice will continue."