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Puerto Rico’s Slow-Going Recovery Means New Hardship for Dialysis Patients
Puerto Ricans suffering from kidney disease and diabetes face an ongoing crisis.
Why Black Stories Matter: They Build Empathy and Heal Trauma
The telling of these stories will engender empathic pathways in the soul and in the heart.
Stunning Investigation Confirms Black Mothers and Babies in the US Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis
The United States ranks 32 out of the 35 wealthiest nations in infant mortality.
Congress Urged to Cut Medicare Payments to Many Stand-Alone Emergency Rooms
The proposal would reduce Medicare payment rates by 30 percent.
Let’s Go All-In on Home Care for All
Let's go beyond resistance to build the society we want.
Sanders’s Bill Would Hold Big Pharma Executives Behind Opioid Crisis Accountable
“Pharmaceutical companies lied about the addictive impacts of opioids they manufactured,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said, taking aim at corporate impunity.
Patient Advocacy Groups Take in Millions From Drugmakers. Is There a Payback?
A new database tallies money from Big Pharma to patient groups.
Medicaid Is Helping to Combat the Opioid Crisis, Despite Trump’s Attacks
Medicaid is expanding addiction treatment.
Hospitals Are Leaving Rural America. Rural Americans Are Staying Put.
Seventy-seven percent of rural US counties are considered “Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas.”
New Abortion Law Requires Doctors to Keep Records that Can Follow Patients Through Life
The new Indiana law will burden women with lifelong stigma.