Saturday, April 20, 2024

As Sanders prepared Medicare bill, health care lobbyists bankrolled Senate Democrats

Since 2010, Democratic senators who have refused to sponsor the bill have raised twice as much insurance industry cash as those who support the legislation.

Pennsylvania school now doing emergency drills in case of pipeline explosion

The type of natural gas liquids associated with this project have a troubling safety record.

Institutionalized elderly are facing a massacre, not an epidemic

The other epidemic, meanwhile, is causing what amounts to a massacre of the nation’s institutionalized elderly in nursing homes.

Major victory for California cities vs. Monsanto over PCB contamination

PCBs are harmful to humans, wildlife and the environment.

US media failed to factcheck Sweden’s herd immunity hoax

This is especially important as “herd immunity” has become a popular stalking horse among certain right-wingers seeking to argue that infecting broad swathes of the population is the best way to return the world — and the world economy — to normal.
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Did a DAPL security worker wielding an AR-15 rifle try to infiltrate native water...

A Standing Rock Sioux tribal member says he saw the man driving down Highway 1806 toward the main resistance camp with an AR-15 rifle on the passenger side of his truck.
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‘Our bodies are on the line’: NYC nurses demand protective gear as COVID-19 death...

Nurses in California, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada and Texas are protesting one of the nation’s largest hospital chains for a “lack of preparedness” amid the coronavirus pandemic.

UK regulators give okay to use psychedelic drug to treat depression in first clinical...

"We think this could be a treatment for a number of depressive disorders besides major depression, including PTSD, treatment-resistant depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and possibly some types of substance abuse."
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Public health vs. politics: White House scrapped nationwide Covid-19 testing plan to hurt blue...

More than five months into the crisis, there continue to be critical testing shortages and delays. How did we get here?

The Vaccine Conundrum

Vaccination is a highly controversial issue. Can a better understanding of the history and the science behind it help people reach a compromise?