Health Care

Despite California's historic drought, San Francisco's homeless will continue to be forced off Market Street with pressurized water.

Undocumented women face challenges with employment, health care, high rates of domestic violence and psychological trauma.

Medical ethicist Harriet Washington explains why most pharmaceuticals companies decline to produce drugs for the developing world yet use it for clinical testing.

Medical ethicist Harriet Washington says that the media-driven narrative of African fear ignores the untrustworthiness of the health care system.

Contrary to what “Orange is the New Black” would have you think, compassionate release is not simply the act of taking an aging, senile person and dumping her onto …

While Obamacare expands Medicaid, various states are also privatizing it, increasing the costs and decreasing the benefits to the poor under the ideological cover of teaching them how to …

The Overdose Prevention Act supports the expansion of community-based overdose prevention programs.

The Senate hearing for the Women's Health Protection Act shows just how important it is for women's health advocates to push for the facts.

Health workers here say they are now battling two enemies: the unprecedented Ebola epidemic and fear.

With 60 percent of bankruptcies caused by medical bills, performer Michael Milligan joins the host to discuss his new play “Mercy Killers.”