Rationing of Medical Equipment Is Costing Disabled People Their Lives Rationing of Medical Equipment Is Costing Disabled People Their Lives
With the government refusing to make medicine and medical equipment accessible, sick, and disabled people have to rely on each other for support.
Aug 26, 2022 / Back Page / Nolan Trowe
When You Have Diabetes, Even a Routine Police Encounter Can Turn Fatal When You Have Diabetes, Even a Routine Police Encounter Can Turn Fatal
Diabetics are often denied necessary care in police custody, leading to life-threatening complications and even death.
Aug 3, 2020 / Natalie Shure
Palm Oil Is Everywhere in India—and Public-Health Experts Are Concerned Palm Oil Is Everywhere in India—and Public-Health Experts Are Concerned
How the cheap, unhealthy oil became the high-fructose corn syrup of the developing world.
Sep 17, 2018 / Jocelyn C. Zuckerman
Ten Urban Experiments That Your City Should Adopt Ten Urban Experiments That Your City Should Adopt
From Atlanta to Los Angeles, cities are becoming greener, healthier, and more humane.
Mar 4, 2015 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Big Soda Is Outspending Its Opposition 10-to-1 to Fight a Soda Tax in Berkeley Big Soda Is Outspending Its Opposition 10-to-1 to Fight a Soda Tax in Berkeley
Berkeley residents overwhelmingly support the measure, but beverage companies are fighting back.
Oct 14, 2014 / Anna Lappé
Hunter-Blatherer: On Jared Diamond Hunter-Blatherer: On Jared Diamond
An unreliable anthropologist of traditional societies is a no less dubious diagnostician of the contemporary world.
Apr 3, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Wertheim
Judge Sotomayor’s Diabetes: Not a Weakness But a Strength Judge Sotomayor’s Diabetes: Not a Weakness But a Strength
There is little doubt that Federal Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, when and if she is confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice, will be a role model. As the first Latina on the...
May 27, 2009 / Blog / John Nichols