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Yesterday 8:34 am
It’s Not “Unreasonable” to Want to Change Our Rotten Health Care System
The pandemic showed how callous, unequal, and ineffective American health care can be—but some medical bigwigs seem to want people to stop pointing that out.
Gregg Gonsalves
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February 16, 2023
The Fight for the Soul of American Medicine
More and more physicians are rejecting the forces of conservatism within their field and joining the grassroots movement to revolutionize American medicine.
Gregg Gonsalves
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January 27, 2023
Republicans Are Trapped by Their Party’s Anti-Abortion Extremism
Riled up anti-choice activists ensure that the fight over abortion will continue to dominate elections.
Jeet Heer
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January 11, 2023
“The New Yorker” Goes All In on Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the virus.
Gregg Gonsalves
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November 14, 2022
Doctors Finally Join the Labor Movement
A challenge to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx by a broad coalition of its own workers is a frontline struggle against the most exploitative tendencies of the whole industry.
Karim Sariahmed
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September 9, 2022
Ending Free Covid Tests, US Policy Is Now “You Do You”
The Biden administration’s “soft closing” to the pandemic means a hard landing for the un- and underinsured.
Martha Lincoln and Anne N. Sosin
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April 12, 2022
Black Mothers Are Dying. The Least We Can Do Is Listen to Their Stories
As we observe Black Maternal Health Week, it’s essential that we heed the lessons of maternal mortality review committees and press for life-saving support for pregnant Black people.
Latona Giwa
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November 3, 2021
Medical Translation Without Trust
Finding a translator in medical settings was difficult enough before the pandemic, but now the solutions come with additional problems.
Zoya Qureshi
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July 23, 2021
Closing the Largest Generic Drug Plant in the US Is a Sick Joke
But Joe Manchin’s daughter, a company executive, is laughing all the way to the bank.
Laura Flanders
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December 14, 2020
What if Scientists Already Know How to Prevent the Next Pandemic?
One Health is a pan-species approach that could ward off the next big outbreak. But first, it has to overcome the anti-science ethos of the Trump era.
Jimmy Tobias