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The family of Henrietta Lacks and Thermo Fisher Scientific reached a settlement related to the unauthorized use of her cancer cells, which benefited labs and companies and proved invaluable for research for decades.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump and attorney Chris Seeger released a (…)
Medical exploitation is an often overlooked part of Black history and partly explains the mistrust that members of the Black community have for the medical industry.
In a case that revealed the exploitation of a Black woman beginning in the 1950s and extending for 70 years, Thermo Fisher (…)
Teen dies in sawmill accident as US states aim to roll back child labor laws (Headline of Wisconsin Public Radio, July 6, 2023)
The police received an early-morning call regarding an unresponsive teenager at Florence Hardwoods, a sawmill in northern Wisconsin, reported the Florence county (…)
Gaslighting and disbelief make long COVID worse for people living with long-term effects from the virus.
This article, written for Truthout by Eleanor J. Bader, addresses the issue of long-term COVID in the U.S., but, as she writes, denial has never been an effective healthcare strategy as (…)
Millions of American adults are impaired by long Covid. They have a vision for what our society owes to chronically ill and disabled people."
On a muggy late-summer day in September 2022, dozens of disabled protesters lay on the sidewalk outside the White House. The ground was hot, and sweat (…)
On the basis of government appointment technicalities and religious freedom, Americans may lose free coverage for cancer and blood pressure screenings, HIV prevention medication and other essential services.
Many Americans breathed a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court left the Affordable (…)
Taking into consideration the number of excess deaths caused by COVID-19 compared with pre-pandemic years is critical to getting an accurate accounting of the pandemic’s real toll.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020, a recurring topic of debate has been whether official (…)
Fewer precautions, recent holidays and subvariants have driven rise but boosters, masks and other precautions are still effective
In the fourth year of the pandemic, Covid-19 is once again spreading across America and being driven by the recent holidays, fewer precautions and the continuing (…)
Respiratory viruses are hitting young children and infants particularly hard this fall and winter season, and experts don’t yet know exactly why.
Every fall and winter, viral respiratory illnesses like the common cold and seasonal flu keep kids out of school and social activities. But this (…)
Exclusive: America’s top disease expert speaks to the Guardian about the dangers of long Covid and urges US Congress to avoid complacency
Dr Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, has warned against prematurely declaring victory over the pandemic, not only due to short-term (…)
Americans have in the last two years suffered a dramatic decline in life expectancy, from nearly 79 years in 2019 to 76 in 2021. This is a historic decline; nothing like it has been seen since the 1920s.
According to Dr. Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at (…)
Virus has laid bare America’s fragmented healthcare system and corrosive racial and socioeconomic inequality
[American flags fly at half-staff to mark one million deaths from the coronavirus on the National Mall in Washington, on 12 May. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA]
More than one million (…)
We’re epidemiologists, nurses and physicians, artists and biologists. We have come together with a common anger at the US government’s handling of Covid
A new omicron variant, referred to as BA 2, is taking hold in the US. Anthony Fauci and others have said they don’t expect a new surge in the (…)
Public health authorities suggest Americans need to prepare to pivot back even as they tire of the forever pandemic
he Biden administration is facing a delicate balancing act between relaxing US Covid-19 precautions during the current lull in case numbers in the US and conveying the urgency of (…)
The new CDC guidelines relax the criteria for concern about COVID-19 [1] risk and permit a decrease in public health protective mandates. The People’s CDC is issuing a reminder that we are still in a pandemic for which precautionary measures remain critical. Preventive measures to help protect (…)
Left-leaning people wonder ‘what’s wrong’ with the unvaccinated. But what if their non-compliance isn’t that surprising?
Hospitalizations and deaths from Covid-19 in the US are now driven heavily (although not exclusively) by the small share who remain unvaccinated. According to the latest CDC (…)
As the US passes 900,000 Covid deaths, much of the blame has fallen on individuals despite vast income inequality and vaccine accessibility issues
The US has suffered 900,000 deaths from Covid-19, the highest figure of any nation. The death toll would be equivalent to the 15th most populous (…)
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled President Joseph Biden’s plan to mandate vaccinations for American workers employed by private businesses. It was an extraordinarily irrational and reactionary ruling by one of the most undemocratic and authoritarian institutions of our (…)
Donations through the online retailer’s charitable program come as it faces criticism for its role in health misinformation
Amazon’s charitable program is paying tens of thousands of dollars to anti-vaccine groups in a move experts say is “shocking” as millions of Americans remain unvaccinated (…)
IN THE UNITED STATES, most of the Covid antivax agitation comes from rightwing sources. It is dangerous and reprehensible because it threatens legitimate public health efforts to bring a pandemic under control that has already killed at least 750,000 people in the U.S. and five million (…)
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