Striking Massachusetts nurses outwait corporate giant Tenet
Last year’s longest-running strike came to an end in early January when nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, overwhelmingly voted...
Gaza grapples with health emergency amid rising infectious disease cases
Gaza faces a dire health crisis with over 360,000 infectious disease cases in shelters, highlighting the devastating impact of Israel's blockade and a collapsing healthcare system.
Jeb Bush: Don’t Blame Governor Snyder For Flint Crisis, Blame Regulations
"We've created this complex, no responsibility regulatory system."
Vermont Senate Votes To Legalize Recreational Marijuana
Vermont is on pace to become the first state legislature to legalize cannabis.
Single payer is on the national agenda – and it’s thanks to people’s movements
It’s up to grassroots movements to demand – and win – the health care system we need.
Meat Is Murdering American Rivers
Government data shows that food processing plants are the biggest toxic polluters of waterways in the U.S.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Worker's wages fall, Federal judge orders government to seek consent before medicating migrant children, Bernie Sanders thanks the Koch brothers, and more.
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."
What’s up with the herd?
The United States won’t achieve herd immunity because a significant portion of the herd is suffering from mad cow disease.
US Black and Latino communities often have low vaccination rates—but blaming vaccine hesitancy misses...
Homogenizing peoples’ reasons for not getting vaccinated diverts attention away from social factors that research shows play a critical role in health status and outcomes.