Health

Even Trump supporters agree we can learn something from the country’s universal, low-cost health care system. It’s that good.

The EPA bans two carcinogenic chemicals after decades of advocacy, but political and industrial challenges loom.

The CDC reported that childhood immunization rates hit a 10-year low.

Flint reveals that there is a much deeper contamination poisoning our country's political morals: namely, an insidious right-wing belief that poor people (particularly people of color who are poor) are underserving moochers whose misfortunes can be ignored.

“We are one step closer to protecting the health of Americans from these toxic forever chemicals.”

Monsanto, the biotech giant, has become the poster-child for all that’s wrong with our industrial food and farming system.

“Understanding whether plastic particles are absorbed across biological membranes and accumulate within internal organs is critical for assessing the risk these particles pose to both organism and human health."

If only the health care system received the same treatment that military spending gets from politicians and the public.

Irene Bosch developed a quick, inexpensive COVID-19 test in early 2020. But she was stymied by an FDA process experts say made no sense.

We reach more than 5,000 deaths just with resistant E.coli alone. If we add in the other resistant bugs we get to almost 12,000 deaths.