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Health Care
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Lessons on the Struggle for Health Care as a Human Right
What happened in Vermont where a so-called single payer proposal died?
An Interview With Sherry Payne: Nurse, Childbirth Educator, Womanist
This is injustice at its most fundamental level.
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US Bishops Take Aim at Sterilization
A toughening of Catholic medical directives could include enforcing a ban on tubal ligations.
Nine LGBTQ Stories Big Media Ignored in 2014
Radical queer organizing was alive and well in the US in 2014; you just may not have heard about it in mainstream media.
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Reform Health Care to Serve Patients, Not Corporate Medicine
The experiences of other wealthy nations show we can do this by expanding and improving Medicare to everyone.
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From the ER to the Courtroom: How Nonprofit Hospitals Are Seizing Patients’ Wages
One Missouri hospital has sued thousands of uninsured patients who couldn't pay for their care.
Shummy’s Surrender: Democratic Governor of Vermont Goes South on Single Payer
Top Vermont Democrats were actually not enthusiastic about providing tax-supported universal health care coverage
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Ten Bonus Health Benefits of Birth Control
Gone are the days when family planning meant crossed-fingers and carefully washed reusable condoms, or metal pessaries or worse.
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Mutated Flu Virus Could Signal More Hospitalizations, Deaths This Season
Although flu activity has been relatively mild in the US thus far, Influenza A viruses, known as H3N2, have been seen in most states.
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Benzene and Worker Cancers: “An American Tragedy“
Documents lay bare petrochemical industry's $36 million ‘research strategy’ on carcinogen.