Monday, November 25, 2024

What is it like to live without running water? Detroit families know

A recent study predicts that in the next five years, more than one-third of Americans will not be able to afford their water.

How can we improve health care access for LGBTQ individuals in America?

Doctors, nurses, administrators, lawmakers and voters should come together to make positive changes that transform medical spaces into inclusive environments for all patients.

Bernie Sanders Demands a Stop to the Dakota Pipeline in Open Letter to President...

“It is deeply distressing to me that the federal government is putting the profits of the oil industry ahead of the treaty and sovereign rights of Native American communities."

FAQs for anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers

The following is satire that is, however, based on actual anti-masker and anti-vaxxer arguments and memes.
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“Hope is not a strategy”: Emergency doctor asks, where are COVID-19 tests? Where is...

“First we’re going to run out of masks, and then we’re going to run out of doctors and nurses, because they’ll become sick.”

Choosing life in a pro-violence society

Post-Dobbs abortion access for military dependents is in question.

Shutoffs continue as the people of Detroit fight for water as a human right

“That’s why a lot of people in Detroit are choosing water over medicine, water over rent, water over new shoes for their kids." “Because it’s such a huge percentage of people’s income right now.”

More than 70% of Democrats back government-run universal healthcare: poll

Across the political spectrum, 57% of respondents said they believe the government should ensure everyone in the U.S. has health coverage.

Jury finds Monsanto guilty in first Roundup cancer trial, plaintiff to receive $289 million

A first of it's kind to go to trail, the case was brought against Monsanto by Johnson, 46, a former pest control manager for a California country school system, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Louisiana’s cancer alley residents push back against industrial polluters

The work of Citizens for a Better St. Gabriel is only beginning.