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Thousands join picket lines at Kaiser Permanente’s California hospitals

February 1, 2012 By Marilyn Bechtel

Thousands of workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities across California marched on picket lines.

What does the future hold for disabled Americans like me?

January 25, 2012 By Michael Leonard

The challenges people with disabilities like me face every day at home, at work and in school are everywhere.

U.S. nurses backed general strike in U.K.

December 5, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The National Nurses Union led a coalition of U.S. unions that demonstrated in six cities on Nov. 30 to back British public workers, who staged a one-day strike.

Two thirds of HIV victims in U.S. are untreated

November 30, 2011 By Joe Sims

Only about a third of those in the U.S. with HIV are getting treated says the Centers for Disease Control.

Routine teen-aged HIV test proposed by doctors

November 28, 2011 By Joe Sims

The Center for Disease Control has called for universal testing of all patients between the ages of 16 and 64. However, the U.S. Public Health Service has not endorsed the proposal.