Tag: health
More of the world’s population is facing food insecurity than ever...
Now, roughly 11 percent of the world's population is facing food insecurity.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, September 10
"How much perjury is too much perjury from a Supreme Court nominee?"
Top cancer researcher fails to disclose corporate financial ties in major...
A senior official at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has received millions of dollars in payments from companies that are involved in medical research. His omissions expose how weakly conflict-of-interest rules are enforced by journals.
Short supplies and price increases give major hospital systems and philanthropies...
"The folks who are gouging people and creating shortages, they know who they are. And they're the ones who should be very concerned."
Reducing food waste can protect our health, as well as our...
Reducing food waste can address two major problems facing humanity today: cost of food waste and the impact on the health of our people and our planet.
Monsanto faces demands from Vietnam to pay compensation to the victims...
"Vietnam has suffered tremendous consequences from the war, especially with regard to the lasting and devastating effects of toxic chemicals, including Agent Orange.”
Add this horror story of teacher charged $109K after heart attack...
"The lesson is, if you live in America and get charged an outrageous medical bill, you better hope you can find a journalist to write about it."
Improved Medicare For All becoming unstoppable
People are pushing back against the false narrative and are forcing the media, in some instances, to tell the truth.
Trump administration admits 1,400+ more people will die each year following...
Trump recently announced a massive rollback of Obama-era environmental regulations on coal-fired power plants and carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to climate change.
Short-term health plans: A junk solution to a real problem
While the cost of health care is one of the overwhelming problems in the American health care system, short-term health plans do nothing to alter the underlying causes.