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![U.S. Army Spcl. Sergio Cardenas stands over 25mm rounds of depleted uranium ammunition on February 2004, at a base in Tikrit, approximately 110 miles north of Baghdad.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/09/2023_0926-depleted-uranium-rounds-400x300.jpg)
By Sending Depleted Uranium to Ukraine, Biden Ensures Suffering Past War’s End
As a radioactive material, depleted uranium enters a human body through inhalation or as fragments puncturing the body.
![A Black woman talks to a doctor in a medical clinic](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/09/GettyImages-1463319962-400x300.jpg)
Women of Color Face Mounting Obstacles in Seeking Long COVID Treatment
Patients suffering from this complex chronic health condition face ignorance, stigma and discrimination.
![Stethoscope and medical chart underwater](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/09/2023_0921-stethoscope-1-400x300.jpg)
Medicaid “Unwinding” Is Largest Loss of Health Coverage in US History
After the U.S. uninsured rate hit a record low in 2022, millions are now losing health coverage simultaneously.
![Hospital workers and supporters protest the closure of Hahnemann University Hospital at a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 11, 2019.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/09/GettyImages-1155218108-400x300.jpg)
Health Care Giants Dominate PA Lobbying While Pennsylvanians’ Health Suffers
Health care profiteers make up 3 of the top 5 spenders on lobbying in Pennsylvania.
![A memorial outside of Oxford High School continues to grow on December 3, 2021, in Oxford, Michigan.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0828-school-shooting-400x300.jpg)
Guns Killed a Record Number of Children in the US in 2021
Gun deaths of children increased by over 40 percent between 2018 and 2021.
![A woman speaks with a ranger as she participates in a protest on a road](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0814-water-protectors.jpg)
As US Begins Crackdown on PFAS, Indigenous Communities Are Getting Left Behind
Tribal water systems have gone largely untested because many are too small to meet the EPA’s PFAS testing parameters.
![A person holds a sign reading "I DIED ALONE" during an outdoor demonstration to call attention to the plight of seniors in nursing home care during the covid-19 pandemic](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0809-covid-action-400x300.jpg)
Right-Wing “Herd Immunity” Logic Has Infiltrated US Politics and Public Health
A toxic worldview has exploited pandemic despair to win new converts to the politics of the far right.
![A worker pours a bucket of fish into a holding tank](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_0724-fukufhima-fish.jpg)
Fish Caught Near Fukushima Exceeds Limit of Radioactive Cesium by 180 Times
The fish was caught near a drainage outlet where water will be treated and released from the power plant next month.
![An elderly patient is wheeled into the emergency room of a hospital](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_0724-hospital-patient-400x300.jpg)
House GOP Proposes Cheaper Health Care at the Cost of Consumer Protections
The bills could allow more employers to bypass Affordable Care Act basic benefit requirements and most state standards.
![Protestors demonstrate at the March for Reproductive Rights organized by Women’s March L.A. on April 15, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/07/2023_0720-abortion-a-400x300.jpg)
Infant Deaths Rose by 12 Percent in Texas Amid Abortion Ban
The rise in infant deaths in 2022 reverses a 7-year long trend of a decline in infant mortality.