Tag: health
How the US healthcare system fails its diabetic citizens
We can understand the problem best through the example of diabetic ketoacidosis.
Why the US culture of colonial extraction is making people sick...
Rupa Marya, a physician and musician, studies how social structures impact health. She says colonial capitalism fractures the critical relationships that keep us healthy.
‘Breakthrough results’: New study detects microplastic pollution in human blood for...
While more studies need to be done to examine the direct effects of microplastics on the human body, researchers from the study warn microplastics can cause damage to human cells.
Gas flaring can harm people 60 miles away, study finds
Researchers found that people don't have to be right next to oil and gas fields to experience respiratory distress from flaring.
Shielding poor children from the looming food crisis
The war in Ukraine is causing further disruption to the global food supply and making it harder for the world’s poorest households to afford adequate nutrition.
Childhood adversity is a ‘cause of causes’ of adult illnesses and...
This public health hazard that hides in plain sight is childhood adversity: experiences like physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect.
America’s two pandemics
On an increasingly sickly planet, our future, in other words, remains up for grabs.
Biden must take on Big Pharma over cancer drug that costs...
The United States government should be using its investments in medical research and innovation to benefit all Americans, not just the shareholders at a few corporations.
Meat and dairy gobble up farming subsidies worldwide, which is bad...
Agricultural subsidies help prop up a food system that is neither healthy nor sustainable.
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Phoenix places 10th on worst zoo List, pledges to shut down elephant exhibit
Phoenix Zoo’s decision is part of a growing trend among zoos across North America with about 40 zoos closing their elephant exhibits and many more pledging to close their exhibits.
The Santa Ana by Joan Didion
Written by Joan Didion, The Santa Ana ("Los Angeles Notebook"/Slouching Towards Bethlehem) was published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1965.
LA wildfires destroy homes as insurers abandon policyholders in high-risk areas
Insurance companies pull out of fire-prone areas, leaving homeowners scrambling for coverage amid record-breaking climate disasters.
How ten holier-than-thou MAGA dictates threaten to invert Jesus’ biblical commandments
Because a Christian God rules the universe, Christians should naturally run government.
Can nonviolent struggle defeat a dictator? This database emphatically says yes
The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.