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Health and Disease
Health and Disease news and analysis from The Nation
September 16, 2019
Children, pregnant people, and the elderly are the most at risk from extreme weather and heat—but the impact is already being felt across every specialty of medicine.
September 13, 2019
The dying activist tells The Nation how he wants to be remembered.
August 23, 2019
The administration’s new rules will eviscerate key features of the landmark 1997 Flores decision, which mandates protections for immigrant children.
August 23, 2019
New reproductive technologies promise to prevent serious genetic disease. What happens if only the rich can access them?
August 12, 2019
The transition to parenthood is a critical window when parents’ mental and physical health is at risk. Paid leave can protect them—and their babies.
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July 12, 2019
Jose Gurrola is just 25, with barely 20,000 constituents, but he’s managed to put California’s powerful oil industry on the defensive.
July 8, 2019
Not qualifying for regular dialysis in most states, undocumented immigrants with kidney failure are forced to live in constant agony.
June 29, 2019
The HIV/AIDS protest group was the first great leap for the queer movement after Stonewall.
June 19, 2019
Keep your hands to yourself or be in the hands of justice.
June 7, 2019
The darkness of addiction.
