Health

Things like health care, education, roads and even voting systems should never be put in the control of giant corporations that only care about making a buck.

Venture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating over the exploding $788.7 billion market in K-12 education.

Africa is paying the price of low productivity because of limited use of commercial fertilizers by smallholder farmers who produce the bulk of the continent's food.

Naomi Klein's new book resets the debate over global warming by focusing on how it is integrally related to the current economic system that spans the globe.

The VA announced it will cover health care costs for Marine dependents who contracted cancer and other illnesses from toxic water at Camp Lejeune, as promised two years ago.

The Obama administration's deployment of 3,000 troops to Liberia comes amid a broader US-led militarization in West Africa.

The American Civil Liberties Union and Prison Law Office released a series of 26 reports alleging extensive problems with the Arizona Department of Corrections' healthcare program and its use …

A mysterious toxin with no name and no cure lurking in lakes in the South has drilled holes in the brains of the region's birds.

“Instead of lynchings, we now enjoy the spectacle of the fraternal-order-of-police executing blacks and browns as sport.”

Lyme disease is bad enough. But it's just the beginning of a host of odd and ugly diseases ticks transmit, public health officials are finding.