health care

Recovering from the opioid addiction crisis: Time for progressive strategies?

September 16, 2019 By Brian W. Major

Instead of having people die from addictions, governments could be providing services like safe injection sites, needle exchanges, HIV and Hepatitis screening.

Amazon’s Whole Foods strips part-timers’ insurance; shows need for Medicare for All

September 13, 2019 By C.J. Atkins

Amazon continues the same cut-throat practices that helped it dominate the online retail space.

Short staffing, security problems force Univ. of Chicago nurses onto info picket line

July 23, 2019 By PAI

Conditions are bad enough that NNU filed a formal complaint with state health and occupational safety officials earlier this year.

Johns Hopkins Hospital: Union-buster and predatory debt collector

July 22, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

Johns Hopkins Hospital may have a world-class reputation for medical research, but it’s anything but world-class in the way it treats its nurses.

Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians may strike to prevent more suicides

June 7, 2019 By Marilyn Bechtel

A gifted college student committed suicide last year after experiencing repeated delays and obstacles in her search for desperately needed mental health care.