Tag: health

Without effective oversight, unscrupulous retailers have an incentive to continue cashing in on the organic seal.

Meet the system stewards, people from every walk of life who improve Americans’ well-being by tackling the deeper causes of disease and despair.

Roundup weedkiller did not have to require cancer warnings, according to the EPA and Justice Department.

Unfortunately for those who turn to generics to save money, the FDA relies heavily on the honor system with foreign manufacturers, and U.S. consumers get burned.

Pharmaceutical companies stand to lose big under a single-payer system, since it might enable the government to negotiate lower drug prices.

“With Trump's EPA reversing even the most commonsense protections, our health, and the health of all species, is in serious danger.”

A report by the Environmental Working Group reveals that an estimated 2,000 untested chemicals, several of them known or suspected carcinogens, are legally present in conventional packaged foods sold in U.S. supermarkets. But this major public health concern is largely unrecognized by the Food and Drug Administration, which operates under a policy on food additives dating back to 1958.

"What we need is a grassroots political movement that will stand up to the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and take the steps necessary to ensure we end the AIDS epidemic by 2025..."

If the movement continues to build support and keeps Medicare for All a central issue in the 2020 election, we can win National Improved Medicare for All in the early 2020s.

The ACA’s pre-existing condition protections are among the law’s more popular and important elements.