Friday, September 25, 2026

‘We’ve let the worst happen’: Reflecting on 400,000 dead

Eight months later, with 300,000 additional American lives lost and the chaotic distribution of the vaccine underway, Caroline Chen, health care reporter, shares her thoughts on where we are and what happens next.

FDA unveils online database of chemical substances in food as part of MAHA initiative

The Chemical Contaminants Transparency Tool provides contaminant levels in an initiative to modernize food chemical safety.

Latest CDC data exposes U.S. healthcare’s fatal flaw: Profit over patients

As new CDC data lays bare, the U.S. grapples with a healthcare paradox: towering costs yet shorter lifespans. Explore how America's for-profit model is failing its people, spotlighting the urgent plea for Medicare for All.

From Flint To Standing Rock To Upstate NY, Organizing To Save Our Water

We cannot sacrifice the planet for profits.

Big Pharma Preps to Spend Hundreds of Millions to Keep Drug Prices High

"PhRMA's decision to hike membership dues 50 percent will increase the trade group's considerable coffers to more than $300 million per year," Politico reports

Removing Artificial Ingredients Helped Turn Around Cereal Sales

General Mills is selling more Cheerios, Lucky Charms, and other products, reversing losses suffered last year.

Resistance at Standing Rock: The people from Oceti Sakowin Camp

“I’m here to make the world a better place. I obviously can’t do it on my own, and when I saw a big group of people do that I took the opportunity to help anyway I can.”

How American life continued to deteriorate in 2016

We're living in an era of suicide in America, in parallel with our era of inequality.

What grade should America get for its response to Covid-19?

Actually, it’s not America that should receive a grade for the response to Covid-19. It’s Trump, of course, whose response to this threat has been pathetic and a catastrophe.

Coronavirus, thanks to Trump

Trump disputes and silences the medical public health professionals and officials who are trying to save American lives.