Monday, October 26, 2026

Dying to work

Many Americans must return to work because they need the money, but this doesn’t have to be the case.
A community health center in Lytle, Texas. Photo: USDA

Refugees and asylum seekers lose Medicaid eligibility as 2025 law provision takes effect

The Congressional Budget Office estimates the immigrant eligibility limits will leave 100,000 more people uninsured by 2034.

The EPA is banning chlorpyrifos, a pesticide widely used on food crops, after 14...

“The EPA has had nearly 14 years to publish a legally sufficient response to the 2007 Petition.”

New report reveals rise in antimicrobial use in animals

A possible contribution to rising rates of AMR is the overuse of medically important antimicrobials in food-producing animals.

Coronavirus discriminates against Black lives through surveillance, policing and the absence of health data

Black lives are further in peril in a time of COVID-19. Subject to death on both the public health and policing fronts, we will not be silent.
Protesters outside the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, the day of the Dobbs decision. Photo: John Brighenti / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Report counts 902 pregnancy-related prosecutions in three years after Dobbs

Pregnancy Justice found that most cases involved child neglect or endangerment charges and that substance use was alleged in 871 of them.
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Study warns 1.1 million children could die as pandemic interrupts access to food &...

A shocking new report finds the child mortality rate could increase the first time in more than 60 years.
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Meet the new yes man on Trump’s Covid task force: Dr. Scott Atlas wants...

Dr. Scott Atlas is not an epidemiologist and was brought on specifically because he would back President Trump’s position “about how the pandemic was going, that the threat was receding, that the country should reopen.”

Exclusive: White House privately warns 11 cities must take “aggressive” action against coronavirus

New red flags about the severity of the coronavirus outbreak come after Trump focused on upsides in televised briefing.

Revealed: How Dirty Production of NHS Drugs Helps Create Superbugs

Active ingredients used in antibiotics get into the local soil and water systems, leading to bacteria in the environment becoming resistant to the drugs.