Nurses in New York, California, and Hawaii claimed big contract victories after showing their power on the picket line.
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Striking Nurses From Coast to Coast Stood Up to Corporate Forces and Won Read Post »
Both legacy military contractors and an influx of startups are making the technology a core focus of their efforts.
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Once a Niche Topic in Federal Lobbying, AI Is Now a Major Area of Focus Read Post »
Two lawsuits challenge the agency’s reversal of a 2009 rule underpinning federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Health Care Professionals, Scientists, and Children Sue the EPA Over Recent Move Read Post »
A grassroots campaign that united patients and providers succeeded in expanding mental health care access. Here’s how.
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Illinois Had Massive Gaps in Mental Health Coverage. We Organized to Fix It. Read Post »
This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. Each year, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ internal watchdog sends a survey to all 139 of the agency’s medical centers coast to coast with a straightforward question: Which jobs have severe staffing […]
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Why VA Psychologists Are Quitting in Record Numbers Read Post »
As disease researchers around the country received letters last year that their grants had been cancelled, National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya declared his agency was merely clearing out the clutter. Those terminated grants do “not actually have anything to do with promoting the health of the American people,” he told Science. Experts […]
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Trump’s NIH Slashed Research on Chronic Diseases in 2025. Will It Happen Again? Read Post »
This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is developing a generative artificial intelligence tool to find patterns across data reported to a national vaccine monitoring database and to generate hypotheses on the negative effects of vaccines, according to an inventory released last week of […]
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Health Department Will Mine Unverified Vaccine Injury Claims With New AI Tool Read Post »
After Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Biden administration enforced a rule in 2022 mandating that retail pharmacies receiving any federal funding had to carry and dispense mifepristone, misoprostol, and methotrexate—drugs used in medication abortions and, in the case of methotrexate, the treatment of ectopic pregnancies and autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus—in […]
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HHS Will Allow Pharmacies to Boycott Lifesaving Drugs Used in Medication Abortion Read Post »
Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz’s family has concerns about the medical care he received while in an ICE jail.
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Honduran Man Who Died in ICE Custody Told His Family He’d Felt Ill for Weeks Read Post »
As US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn a lot of attention for promoting pseudoscience and disproven theories, especially on vaccines. He is using that playbook on another major public health issue: gun violence, which remains the leading cause of death for kids in America. When it comes to school shootings and other mass […]
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No, Antidepressants Do Not Cause Mass Shootings Read Post »
One contract priority is keeping ICE out of medical facilities, says nurse and lead strike organizer Michelle Gonzalez.
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Mamdani and Sanders Join Picket Line as NYC Nurses’ Strike Enters 10th Day Read Post »
This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. During the second Trump administration, the population of migrants held at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities has exploded—from below 40,000 in January 2025 to over 73,000 today. Under the law, ICE is required to provide necessary medical care for this population. While ICE employs […]
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ICE Has Stopped Paying Contractors for Detainee Medical Treatment Read Post »
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