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.
Calling Covid-19 crisis a ‘wake-up call,’ WHO experts warn next pandemic could be even...
“This pandemic has been very severe... it has affected every corner of this planet. But this is not necessarily the big one.”
2.5 million nurses demand UN probe into ‘COVID-19 criminals’ blocking patent waiver
"Continued opposition to the TRIPS waiver is resulting in the violation of human rights of peoples across the world."
Brazil’s leading food retailer goes cage-free
This commitment will spare millions of egg-laying hens a life of extreme confinement in battery cages so small that the birds can barely move or stretch their wings.
Inequality virus: Pandemic widens wealth gap for women, people of color as billionaire profits...
“In every country that we looked at, inequality has gotten worse during the pandemic.”
Despite coronavirus threat, Americans for Prosperity still leads fight against Medicaid expansion
Coronavirus or not, AFP’s opposition to health care for the poor and working poor remains resolute.
How we can take on powerful interests to win Medicare for All
Building support for Medicare for All is not hard. But beating back the wealthy forces determined to profit off of illness is.
Social distancing is not an option for people in prison and ICE detention
Families recount painful conversations with loved ones inside detention centers and join advocates demanding action that detainees be protected against spread of the coronavirus.
Big pharma keeps bankrolling house GOP’s dark money arm
Pharmaceutical companies stand to lose big under a single-payer system, since it might enable the government to negotiate lower drug prices.
‘Millions of lives are at stake’: Pressure grows on Biden to back WTO waiver...
“The world needs 10 to 15 billion doses to reach herd immunity, and right now all of the global production together is on track to make 6 billion doses this year.”