Thursday, July 23, 2026

A post-COVID-19 recovery will not be possible if water, sanitation & hygiene are not...

The global economy and a concerted effort, coordination and imagination is needed to enable not only a worldwide recovery, but also to ensure that the world’s poorest people are not left behind.
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Pandemic profiteers: Hospitals sued patients over medical debt while getting billions in relief aid

“There’s a lot of talk in our healthcare system about putting patients first, … but this is not doing that.”

How a Seattle neighborhood confronted food insecurity in the pandemic

Seattle’s square-mile neighborhood of South Park has turned its early pandemic community supports into a sustainable system tackling food insecurity.

As rich nations protect corporate patents, the global vaccine divide is widening

Corporate profits are not more important than the lives of millions of poor people around the globe.

What the American Rescue Plan says about President Biden’s health care priorities – and...

Indeed, for his first big move on health policy, Biden is strengthening private insurance.

Raising the minimum wage is a health issue, too

Study after study has linked higher income to better health.

The sports pages of death

Life in a wounded and wounding land...

US could save tens of thousands of lives and tens of billions of dollars...

Now seems to be exactly the wrong time to ease and eliminate restrictions as some states are doing, especially with several new variants remaining a threat.

Keeping the vaccine for ourselves

The results and ideas should be shared, and the costs should be pooled, regardless of whether it is a rich country or a poor country that is paying.

More than half a million people exposed to flaring, increased health risks, says UCLA...

Roughly 530,000 people live within three miles of an oil and gas flare.