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Health Care

Aduhelm, approved by the FDA in June despite much pushback from medical experts, is expected to be a huge burden on the health care system.
News
Politics & Elections

Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug Behind About Half of Medicare’s Yearly Price Bump

Aduhelm, approved by the FDA in June despite much pushback, is expected to be a huge burden on the health care system.
by
Jon Skolnik,
Salon
December 4, 2021
Truthout
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, takes notes during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on June 9, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
News
Environment & Health

Biden Is Quietly Continuing a Trump-Era Ploy to Privatize Medicare

The Medicare experiment could result in health care policy and political nightmare, but most in Congress seem unaware.
by
Jake Johnson,
Common Dreams
November 30, 2021
Truthout
A medical worker fills a syringe with the covid-19 vaccine
News
Environment & Health

2.5 Million Nurses Demand UN Probe Into Rich Countries Blocking Patent Waivers

The small group of rich nations is “endangering millions of lives around the world,” the nurses declared in a petition.
by
Jake Johnson,
Common Dreams
November 29, 2021
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Demonstrators march during an anti-mandate protest against the COVID-19 vaccine as part of a "Global Freedom Movement" in New York on November 20, 2021.
Op-Ed
Environment & Health

The Right Is Hijacking Progressive Arguments to Undermine Public Health

As long as health care remains a commodity, the right will use cynical arguments to discredit public health measures.
by
Christopher Teel,
Truthout
November 26, 2021
Truthout
Soldier in military fatigues touches head as mental health professional reaches out
News
War & Peace

Why Did the DoD Abandon a Report Tracking 139 Military Mental Health Programs?

The Defense Health Agency inexplicably stopped an unprecedented project to improve 139 military mental health programs.
by
Daniel DeFraia,
Truthout
November 11, 2021
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A man enters the Regeneron Clinic at a monoclonal antibody treatment site in Pembroke Pines, Florida, on August 19, 2021.
News
Environment & Health

Nursing Home Residents Are Overlooked in Scramble for COVID Antibody Treatments

Critics say a change in federal policy limits supplies for the vulnerable population of frail and elder residents.
by
JoNel Aleccia,
Kaiser Health News
November 1, 2021
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On September 28, nearly 800 people rallied in front of Kaiser’s corporate office in Portland, with union members joined by dozens of organizations and hundreds of supporters.
Interview
Economy & Labor

Health Care Workers Sound Off About Solidarity and Why They’re Ready to Strike

“We are kind of at this breaking point. We’re at this cusp,” says health care worker Hannah Winchester.
by
Kelly Hayes,
Truthout
October 28, 2021
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Nurses, technicians, clerical workers and custodians at the city's Mercy Hospital have been on strike for three weeks.
News
Economy & Labor

Buffalo Health Care Workers Are on Strike for Better Wages and Patient Safety

Nurses, technicians, clerical workers and custodians at the city’s Mercy Hospital have been on strike for three weeks.
by
Mike Pappas,
Luigi Morris &
Olivia Wood,
Left Voice
October 24, 2021
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Dante DeMaino of Danvers, Massachusetts, was diagnosed with MIS-C in March. MIS-C — multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children — is a rare but life-threatening complication of COVID in which a hyperactive immune system causes damage throughout the body.
News
Environment & Health

Scientists Search for Cause of Mysterious COVID-Related Inflammation in Children

More than 5,200 of the 6.2 million U.S. children diagnosed with COVID have developed a life-threatening complication.
by
Liz Szabo,
Kaiser Health News
October 20, 2021
Truthout
Rep. Scott Peters
Op-Ed
Environment & Health

Corporate Democrats’ Toothless Drug Pricing Alternative Is a Coup for Big Pharma

Pain, suffering, health complications and even death are the costs people in our country pay for Big Pharma’s greed.
by
Aija Nemer-Aanerud,
Truthout
October 18, 2021
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