health care
Abandoned by governments, Indigenous people create their own health post in Manaus
March 10, 2021Manaus, Brazil (Feb. 26, updated March 4) — With the public health system collapsing and the oxygen crisis, Amazonas has had more than 290,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the second and worst wave of the...
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Thanks to Trump, ‘death panels’ arrive in the City of Angels
January 6, 2021Whatever you do, don’t have a heart attack or stroke in L.A.
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A pandemic ‘Nurse T’ tells her COVID-19 story in new published diary
December 22, 2020Reading A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary, particularly against prevalent media representations of healthcare workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, brought to mind for me the opening words of the sketch by the U.S. radical writer Jesús Colón,...
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López Obrador dice en G20 que atenderse salud sin afán de lucro y ayudar a pobres
November 22, 2020"La salud es un derecho humano fundamental que el Estado tiene que garantizar, haciendo a un lado el afán de lucro. La atención médica, las vacunas y las medicinas deben ser gratuitas y de aplicación universal,...
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Biden backs Obamacare as SCOTUS ponders its future
November 10, 2020Supreme Court justices heard opening arguments today from Trump administration determined to kill the Affordable Care Act.
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