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After patient death, nurses urge end to lockout

September 27, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

After a patient died at a Sutter Health hospital Sept. 24 while under the care of strike replacement nurses, the California Nurses Association called on the hospital chain to immediately end its lockout of thousands of...

Thousands of California nurses strike to fight takeaways

September 23, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

The nurses were among 23,000 of their co-workers holding a one-day strike at three-dozen Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente facilities in northern and central California, as well as Oakland Children's Hospital.

After encounter with Perry, Bachmann feels HPV sting

September 16, 2011 By Teresa Albano

A doctor is challenging Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann's wild claims that the HPV vaccine causes mental retardation.

Sept. 11, 2001 archives: Anthrax puts spotlight on health care crisis

September 9, 2011 By Judith LeBlanc

Remember the anthrax attack in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001? Here is one of the articles on that crisis from PeoplesWorld.org archives.

Drug industry sells misleading ads – to doctors

September 2, 2011 By Thomas Riggins

82 percent of the ads placed by drug companies in medical journals violate the Food and Drug Administration's regulations on truthfulness and risk disclosure.