Military Moral Injury, Violence, and the Parable of the Guinea Worm
An Unexpected Encounter with Compassion.
Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You
For decades, the FDA has blacked out the names of generic drugs on inspection reports for foreign factories that were found to have safety and quality violations.
Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Lead to 51,000 Preventable Deaths Each Year
Annual cuts to Medicaid would average $70 billion — roughly the same amount the wealthy will save in tax cuts.
State Lawmakers Embrace RFK Jr.’s Health Policies
Republican state legislators are filing a flurry of bills addressing junk food, vaccines, fluoride.
How Are States Spending Opioid Settlement Cash? We Built a Database of Answers
Where is that money going, who is getting it, and is it doing any good?
A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms
At 6 months pregnant, Nevaeh Crain visited two Texas ERs a total of three times in 20 hours, seeking care for troubling symptoms.
After a Study Found Lead in Tampons, Environmentalists Wonder if Global Metal Pollution Is Worse Than They Previously Thought
Activists say the research marks a growing awareness connecting everyday life to the toxic contamination of the planet and ongoing harm to the climate. More research is examining how women…
The Biden Administration Says Its Trade Policy Puts People Over Corporations. Documents on Baby Formula Show Otherwise.
By Heather Vogell / ProPublica The Biden administration has quietly pushed more than a half-dozen countries to weaken, delay or rethink baby formula regulations aimed at protecting the public’s health…
Real-Time Data Show the Air in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ Is Even Worse Than Expected
By Naveena Sadasivam / Grist Since the 1980s, the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that connects New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been known as “Cancer Alley.” The…
War Surgery Is Not Peace Surgery: An American Doctor in Gaza
By Catherine Mullaly / PassBlue Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is a 42-year-old critical care and trauma surgeon based at San Joaquin General Hospital, a level-two trauma center, in San Joaquin County,…
Ralph Nader: Ultraprocessed Deadly Corporate Food Demands Action
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org About forty-five years ago, at a social gathering, I asked an executive of a Minneapolis-based large food processing company if he fed heavily sugared cereals…
An Invisible Chemical Is Poisoning Thousands of Unsuspecting Warehouse Workers
Medical supply warehouses can be a significant source of cancer-causing ethylene oxide emissions. Only one state is doing anything about it.
“Devastasting”: Ripple Effects Being Felt as Alabama Halts In Vitro Fertilization
The Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are "extrauterine children" is already causing chaos for families.
Public Pharma for Europe, a Game-Changer for Access to Medicines
A growing number of organizations in Europe is demanding a complete overhaul of regional pharma policies in order to protect people’s health over profits
Women and People of Color Bear the Brunt of Medical Misdiagnosis
Hundreds of thousands of Americans become disabled or die each year because of a diagnostic error. But some patients are at higher risk than others.