Health and Disease

Brain Cancer Cases Shot Up in This Florida Town—Is a Defense Contractor to Blame?

Brain Cancer Cases Shot Up in This Florida Town—Is a Defense Contractor to Blame? Brain Cancer Cases Shot Up in This Florida Town—Is a Defense Contractor to Blame?

For years, radioactive waste has seeped into swampland, canals—even drinking water. Now a few families are fighting to hold the polluters accountable.

Oct 14, 2014 / Feature / Sharon Lerner

How Can You Tell If US Hospitals Are Prepared for Ebola? Ask a Nurse.

How Can You Tell If US Hospitals Are Prepared for Ebola? Ask a Nurse. How Can You Tell If US Hospitals Are Prepared for Ebola? Ask a Nurse.

This is not a time to panic. It is a time to get things right.

Oct 13, 2014 / John Nichols

If Airport Ebola Screening Makes You Feel Safer, You Should Know What Workers Are Saying

If Airport Ebola Screening Makes You Feel Safer, You Should Know What Workers Are Saying If Airport Ebola Screening Makes You Feel Safer, You Should Know What Workers Are Saying

Some airport workers have not been trained on handling exposures which could put them at risk of Ebola, hepatitis B and HIV infection.

Oct 12, 2014 / Michelle Chen

Before Ebola, Health Officials Thought the Age of Epidemics Was Over—It Wasn’t

Before Ebola, Health Officials Thought the Age of Epidemics Was Over—It Wasn’t Before Ebola, Health Officials Thought the Age of Epidemics Was Over—It Wasn’t

How the WHO’s blindness and Western biases let the Ebola epidemic run wild.

Oct 10, 2014 / Annie Sparrow

Guess Who’s Holding Up Ebola Aid?

Guess Who’s Holding Up Ebola Aid? Guess Who’s Holding Up Ebola Aid?

A Republican Senator criticized Obama’s plan because it “focuses on Africa.”

Oct 9, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter

How the World Let the Ebola Epidemic Spiral Out of Control

How the World Let the Ebola Epidemic Spiral Out of Control How the World Let the Ebola Epidemic Spiral Out of Control

A swift international response could have contained the outbreak.

Oct 8, 2014 / The Editors

What’s Wrong With Comparing ISIS to a Disease

What’s Wrong With Comparing ISIS to a Disease What’s Wrong With Comparing ISIS to a Disease

While the Obama administration used cancer metaphors to sell a war, it ignored the spread of a real disease.

Oct 8, 2014 / Column / Richard Kim

Why Are We Sending Soldiers Trained for War to Respond to the Ebola Crisis?

Why Are We Sending Soldiers Trained for War to Respond to the Ebola Crisis? Why Are We Sending Soldiers Trained for War to Respond to the Ebola Crisis?

Few would oppose a robust US response to Ebola, but the Obama administration's deployment of 3,000 troops to Liberia comes amid a broader US-led militarization in West Africa.

Sep 25, 2014 / Joeva Rock and Foreign Policy In Focus

Why Aren’t the Health Workers Fighting West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic Being Given Basic Protective Gear?

Why Aren’t the Health Workers Fighting West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic Being Given Basic Protective Gear? Why Aren’t the Health Workers Fighting West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic Being Given Basic Protective Gear?

The failure to protect workers is worsening an already dire public health crisis.

Sep 19, 2014 / Michelle Chen

Why Liberians Thought Ebola Was a Government Scam to Attract Western Aid

Why Liberians Thought Ebola Was a Government Scam to Attract Western Aid Why Liberians Thought Ebola Was a Government Scam to Attract Western Aid

Decades of corruption have left Liberians suspicious of their government.

Sep 16, 2014 / Sara Jerving

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