Tag: health
California pesticide regulators links herbicide paraquat to risks to wildlife, human...
Paraquat, which has been linked to a range of diseases, is banned in more than 70 countries.
Bernie Sanders’ nine-point plan to overhaul America’s healthcare system
Bernie Sanders unveils bold plan to reform U.S. healthcare and address inequality.
New study finds Smartwatch wristbands contain high levels of PFAS
Researchers found elevated level of PFAS in mostly fluorinated synthetic rubber wristbands.
Inside the country’s first official safe drug consumption site
An overdose prevention site in New York City continues its research-backed, lifesaving work.
What is our collective solution to health injustice?
The fight over health care in the U.S. is about competing narratives: profit-making versus collective well-being. We need to articulate a publicly funded solution now—before corporate spin silences us.
A history of success drives the ongoing struggle to clean up...
Cancer Alley communities in Louisiana are still fighting for a healthier environment for everyone.
Recent exposure to glyphosate-contaminated foods reported in 80% of Americans
As the volume of glyphosate applied to crops has increased 100-fold since its introduction to the market in 1974, Americans’ exposure to the chemical has broadened.
62% of Americans demand government-ensured healthcare as trust in for-profit system...
New Gallup poll shows record-high support for universal healthcare, with bipartisan frustration mounting over rising costs and systemic inequities.
A murder on the streets has fear rising in the suites
A gunman murdered the chief executive of a corporate insurance powerhouse that regularly registers hefty profits denying health help to sick people who desperately need it.
CEO assassination suspect claimed insurance industry ‘had it coming’
The shocking case of a corporate CEO’s assassination sheds light on systemic frustration, extremism, and the risks of growing inequality.
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The winner at the DNC’s latest meeting? Israel, ethnic cleansing and genocide
Why did pro-Israel groups voice so much pleasure and praise—not only for the sidelining of pro-human-rights resolutions but also for the process that sidelined them?
UN experts demand halt to arms transfers as Israel’s Lebanon strikes intensify and Senate...
Human rights investigators warn attacks undermine international law while U.S. lawmakers reject another attempt to curb expanding regional conflict.
The deaf, dumb and blind cult still dazzled by the nastiest, most naked ‘emperor’...
How mortifying: one crude, ham-fisted con artist, swelled by arrogance, ignorance, and stupidity, is all it took to topple this “naked” beacon of democracy. Figure even worse with a Putin in charge.
Big oil cashes in as Trump’s Iran war drives $30 million per hour windfall...
Analysis shows fossil fuel giants capturing massive gains as oil prices surge during conflict, intensifying scrutiny over war-driven economic impacts.
The Trump/Newsom nuke war against renewables gets a Diablo push
Together Trump and Newsom are pushing nuclear power plants whose drastic deregulation may now rival the dangers posed by any bombs Iran could produce.