Medicine

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Free-Trade Deals Are Making It Much Harder to Fight AIDS Free-Trade Deals Are Making It Much Harder to Fight AIDS

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and its ilk protect profits at the expense of prevention.

Sep 19, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Mosquito Zika

The United States Has an Emergency Fund for Natural Disasters. Why Not for Pandemics? The United States Has an Emergency Fund for Natural Disasters. Why Not for Pandemics?

Zika is spreading in Florida, and Congress still hasn’t released money for a response.

Aug 25, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

Haiti Cholera

It’s Time for the UN to Compensate Haitians for Its Cholera Disaster It’s Time for the UN to Compensate Haitians for Its Cholera Disaster

Accountability should be seen as a strength, not a liability, at an organization committed to human rights.

Aug 23, 2016 / Muneer I. Ahmad and Alice M. Miller

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Nurses and Doctors Are Fighting Back Against Corporate Healthcare by Unionizing Nurses and Doctors Are Fighting Back Against Corporate Healthcare by Unionizing

Overwork, once a proud hallmark of the medical profession, now symptomizes systemic rot.

Aug 3, 2016 / Michelle Chen

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Employer Wellness Programs Are a Great Idea—Right? Employer Wellness Programs Are a Great Idea—Right?

When “rewards” for good health punish the vulnerable, prevention may be worse than disease.

Jun 1, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Immigrants Are Dying In Detention While ICE Ignores Its Own Medical Standards

Immigrants Are Dying In Detention While ICE Ignores Its Own Medical Standards Immigrants Are Dying In Detention While ICE Ignores Its Own Medical Standards

A new report demonstrates how medical negligence played a significant role in many detention center deaths.

Apr 25, 2016 / Raul Grijalva

Corporations Killed Medicine. Here’s How to Take It Back.

Corporations Killed Medicine. Here’s How to Take It Back. Corporations Killed Medicine. Here’s How to Take It Back.

For most of human history, life-saving drugs were a public good. Now they’re only good for shareholders.

Feb 12, 2016 / Fran Quigley

Zika Is Circling Cuba. What Will Happen When It Lands?

Zika Is Circling Cuba. What Will Happen When It Lands? Zika Is Circling Cuba. What Will Happen When It Lands?

Cuba’s public-health campaigns are famously aggressive—but so is the Zika virus.

Feb 2, 2016 / Greg Grandin

A Group of Mexican Immigrant Women Were Sterilized Without Their Consent. Can a New Film Bring Justice?

A Group of Mexican Immigrant Women Were Sterilized Without Their Consent. Can a New Film Bring Justice? A Group of Mexican Immigrant Women Were Sterilized Without Their Consent. Can a New Film Bring Justice?

No Más Bebés brings dignity and a sense of power to the mothers the law ignored.

Jan 27, 2016 / Claudia Dreifus

A representative holds an “impact-absorbing” helmet at NFL Headquarters in New York.

There Is No ‘War on Football’ There Is No ‘War on Football’

The idea that concussion research is a liberal conspiracy is toxic and will hurt kids. It has to stop.

Dec 10, 2015 / Dave Zirin

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