Health Care

Women and doctors held demonstrations in New Delhi, after the rape and murder of a junior doctor. …

Donations from billionaires are not a substitute for having a system that works for all of us. …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother, is the latest victim of Texas’s near-total abortion ban. After …

Nurses at Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore have won union recognition. …

Since April, at least 2 million children have lost Medicaid health insurance throughout 21 U.S. states. The reports …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

Kaiser Permanente, the healthcare giant, has agreed to a $49-million-dollar settlement as a result of …

The Netflix series Painkiller shows Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid crisis, and the difficulty in holding corporations accountable under capitalism. …

The U.S. is experiencing a recent rise in COVID-19 cases, but the government has decided it’s not a problem anymore, and is not taking any action to mitigate it. …

Gilead Sciences delayed a new, more-effective AIDS treatment drug so they could continue profiting from the still-patented old drugs. …

Hospitals have faced a surge in people needing treatment during the recent heat waves. …

Highland Hospital needs to get more staff and stop overworking its workers. …

The Highland and Kaiser hospitals treat their workers like robots! …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

Last week in Texas, a Trump-appointed judge placed a nationwide ban on the use of …

The U.S. is rolling back Medicaid benefits, but we still need healthcare! …

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published a paper that sounded the alarm about …

Cigna health insurance has an efficient system to process claims quickly and easily: they just …

With the end of the government-declared pandemic health emergency also comes the end of Medicaid coverage. …

With Roe v. Wade overturned, abortion is now banned or severely restricted in over 18 …

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 …

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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. …