health
Routine FDA food inspections suspended by shutdown
January 11, 2019Americans only just survived the great romaine lettuce scare of 2018, and now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has postponed routine domestic food safety inspections.
Read morePersecution, torture, global warming: The health challenges of an asylum-seeker
January 8, 2019PTSD, depression, and infectious diseases are common among asylum-seekers. Medical organizations are taking note.
Read moreWillowbrook, Ill. residents call for closure of polluting Sterigenics plant
December 21, 2018There have been issues with the plant for several decades, but it was only recently discovered that the Illinois EPA had prior knowledge of the matter.
Read moreKaiser Permanente mental health clinicians strike for better patient care
December 14, 2018Oakland’s picketers were among some 4,000 psychologists, therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and addiction medicine specialists throughout California.
Read moreHIV/AIDS epidemic testifies to the problematic presidency of George H.W. Bush
December 5, 2018We continue to pay today for what the former president did not do as the AIDS epidemic first began sweeping across the nation.
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