Health Care

More details about the nursing degree scandal have emerged. …

On March 10, after 3 years the Hopkins Coronavirus Research Center (CRC) run by Johns …

The nursing shortage created an environment that allowed scammers to profit from issuing fake nursing degrees. …

Nurses occupied NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital to force the hospital to honor their contract. …

Nurses in the UK went on strike on January 18 and 19, and more strikes are expected in the coming months. …

January 22 marked the 50th anniversary of the 1973 landmark US Supreme Court Roe v. …

Despite the fact that Covid remains the third leading cause of death, killing about 400 …

A parody Twitter account of the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly drew attention to the exorbitant price of insulin. …

Private insurers that offer a “Medicare Advantage” plan have milked Medicare’s public coffers fraudulently for …

High workload on nurses has caused burnout, leading to 90% of nurses considering leaving their jobs. …

On Friday, September 23, a judge lifted a nearly 50 year old injunction that blocked …

15,000 nurses in Minnesota went on a 3-day strike. …

On Tuesday, September 13, Senator Lindsey Graham proposed a national bill that would ban abortions …

Note: This article comes from the most recent edition of Speak Out Now’s Healthcare Newsletter.  Kaiser …

Predatory nursing homes sued family and friends of deceased patients to collect bill payments. …

Thousands of Northern California Kaiser mental health clinicians have been on strike since Monday, advocating …

The Democrats and their supporters are trying to paint the passage of the Inflation Reduction …

June 27, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New …

The California Department of Managed Health Care recently announced it would be examining the medical …

As the Supreme Court prepares to reverse Roe v. Wade and end federal abortion rights …

Roe is overturned, any movement that builds up in the streets can pick up where Roe fell short. We have to begin to organize our own fight to have control not just over our bodies, but also over the kind of world we want to live in. …

Last Friday, the Supreme Court of Texas allowed the state to resume child abuse investigations …

A recent draft opinion from the Supreme Court reviewing women’s right to abortion was leaked …

This article was edited since it originally was posted on March 11. Across the U.S., …

The EU is discarding more vaccines than it donates to Africa, while blocking vaccine production in Africa. …

Texas is criminalizing giving transition healthcare to transgender children. …

Last week, thousands of nurses across roughly 150 hospitals went on strike in New South …

Democrats in the California State Assembly killed a single-payer health care bill, showing where their priorities lie. …

Healthcare workers continue to face the reality of Covid during the Omicron wave. …

A scandal has started in France about the quality of care in Orpea nursing homes. …

As Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is finishing its second week of the current semester, it …

Are the CDC’s new looser guidelines based on science, or economic considerations? …

The following video report was put out by the New York Times. It is a …

A new COVID vaccine is in the works that is intended to be produced at a low cost and with no patent protections, making it capable for others to produce it. …

The Supreme Court just voted down vaccine mandates, undermining the ability of OSHA to maintain a safe working environment. …

Hundreds of Marylanders are being notified that they may have received ineffective vaccine doses. …

A personal account from a worker at a COVID testing clinic. …

The reason that free or affordable tests and masks haven’t been available in the U.S. until now is the same reason we’ve been stuck in this COVID crisis – this system prioritizes profits above health and safety. …

Por mucho que todo el mundo esperara que el año 2022 pudiera ser el comienzo de una nueva fase en esta pandemia, a cada paso las prioridades de este sistema siguen prolongándola. …

The Theranos verdict not only shows that profits and investors matter more than people in this society. It also shows once again that lying and fraud are an everyday part of life in our capitalist economy. …

Why is that after almost two years of the pandemic, it is so challenging to get a COVID test that many have to wait in line for hours? …

The heads of the pharmaceutical industry are more interested in making as much profits as possible by primarily selling their vaccines to the wealthiest nations rather than to distribute them equitably around the world to wipe out COVID. …

On January 1st, nearly 6,000 seniors in Maryland are expected to lose coverage for having the wrong medicare insurance plan. …

In the French West Indies, Guadeloupe and Martinique, an explosive social movement has been underway for weeks against the imposition of mandatory vaccination in workplaces and the institution of a health pass. …

Shutting down travel to supposedly fight the spread of the virus is nothing but political theater and feeds into racism. …

Why do members of the Supreme Court have the right to make such important and intimate decisions for us. …

On Tuesday, November 9, Oklahoma’s Supreme Court overturned its 2019 ruling that Johnson and Johnson was financially liable for its role in the opioid epidemic. …

Why should a personal healthcare decision like having an abortion – one that is deeply personal and often complex and emotional –  be judged by the Supreme Court? …