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How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall Portside

WEBIn fact, “public health has actively participated in its own marginalization,” Daniel Goldberg, a historian of medicine at the University of Colorado, told me. As the …

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The Americans Dying Because They Can't Afford Medical Care

WEBUS spends the most on healthcare. Despite millions of Americans delaying medical treatment due to the costs, the US still spends the most on healthcare of any …

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Single-Payer Healthcare Would Save Money and Lives Portside

WEBThere’s a way out of this. Healthcare could be established as a basic human right, the way it is in every other developed country, by replacing our for-profit system …

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How American Cultural Assumptions Keep Us From Having …

WEBAmerican attitudes dissuade citizens from having a universal health care system (UHC). Those beliefs have outweighed considering the health benefits gained …

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FDA Proposes Updated Definition of ‘Healthy’ Claim on

WEBFDA’s move will help educate more Americans to improve health outcomes, tackle health disparities and save lives.” The proposed rule would update the “healthy” …

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How Brigham Health Helped Create a Chinese Hospital for Elites …

WEBDr. Elizabeth Nabel, then president of Brigham Health, brought a Boston delegation in April 2018 to celebrate the opening of the Boao Evergrande International …

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The Surprising Link Between Budgeting and Good Health

WEBThe health department in Tacoma-Pierce County, Wash., is always looking for ways to improve public health outcomes. To find out what might work best, the …

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Hospitals Are Using the Nursing Shortage to Stiff Health

WEBThe Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts the employment of registered nurses will grow 9 percent from 2020 to 2030, and employment of health care workers in …

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Why Isn’t Dental Health Considered Primary Medical Care

WEBHealth-care leaders, Thorne says, are beginning to realize that they can improve their patients’ health by incorporating dental care into primary care. It’s sort of …

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mental illness Portside

WEBPeople with Mental Illness are 16 Times More Likely to Be Killed During a Police Encounter. Amy Goodman, John Snook. Before this year, we basically weren’t even able to really …

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Doctors Aren’t Burned Out From Overwork. We’re

WEBAddressing the failures of the health care system will require uncomfortable reflection and bold action. Any illusion that medicine and politics are, or should be, …

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New York City Retirees Fight Their Own Unions To Stop

WEBDefying two years of protests and lawsuits by union retirees, New York City’s Municipal Labor Committee voted March 9 to scrap some of the best retiree health care …

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New York City Retirees Fight To Save Health Insurance

WEBDefying two years of protests and lawsuits by union retirees, New York City’s Municipal Labor Committee voted Thursday to scrap some of the best retiree health …

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Does Chicken Soup Really Help When You’re Sick

WEBPreparing a bowl of chicken soup for a loved one when they’re sick has been a common practice throughout the world for centuries. Today, generations from virtually …

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Kaiser Clinicians Prepare To Strike. Trench Warfare in California

WEBJune 8, 2022 Cal Winslow Portside. Printer friendly. Two thousand northern California Kaiser Permanente mental health practitioners, members of the National Union of …

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As Scandals Mount, So Do Calls To Abolish Private Medicare

WEBIn a new Nation article written with health insurance reform advocate Wendell Potter, Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) contend that one …

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Healthy Gift Guide — 17 ideas for giving “the gift of health”

WEBShopping for holiday gifts is at the top of many people’s to-do lists. And while so-called “health nuts” used to be the primary recipients of wellness-boosting …

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UFT Prez Doubles-Down on Medicare Advantage Push in Face of …

WEBThe ongoing controversy is an outgrowth of last year’s successful retiree revolt against then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Municipal Labor Committee’s proposal …

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NYC Transit Retirees Join Fight Against Medicare Advantage

WEBlabor. NYC Transit Retirees Join Fight Against Medicare Advantage. TWU Local 100 retirees opposed to the Medicare Advantage contract the union signed with …

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Home-Care Organizers Call 1199 Back-Pay Settlement a

WEBA group organizing home health-care workers denounced the arbitrated settlement in which 1199SEIU will receive $30 million to reimburse workers who put in …

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After Setting Himself on Fire, US Airman Aaron Bushnell Dies …

WEBPrinter friendly. Aaron Bushnell, an active duty U.S. airman, died on February 25, 2024 after self-immolating outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. …

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