Race

Study Reveals Staggering Health Toll of Being Black in America

Liz Szabo / Oregon Capital Chroncile Jun 12, 2023 A new study reveals the horrific toll of excess deaths that the black community has suffered due to racism. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Economic Justice

Federal Government Plans Breakup of Organ Transplant Monopoly

Malena Carollo / The Markup Mar 24, 2023 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to breakup the organ transplant monopoly. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Book Review

Unraveling the Enigma of Schizophrenia

Joshua C. Kendall / Undark Mar 7, 2023 A new book argues that we are finally making progress in understanding the elusive mental health disease. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

A Health-Care Cliff Is Coming

LT Talarico / Other Words Feb 23, 2023 18 million Americans who could soon lose Medicaid access. Here’s how to keep people from falling over the edge—and how to fight back. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

The Battle Over Eye Care

Esther Landhuis / Undark Feb 9, 2023 In state legislatures, optometrists and physicians groups square off in a battle over eye care. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Ear to the Ground

Pharmaceutical Companies, Physician Bring Court Challenges to State Abortion Laws

Staff / Truthdig Jan 26, 2023 Lawsuits filed in West Virginia and North Carolina have challenged those states' restrictions on the use of abortion pills. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Business & Economy

Doctors Seek to Bar Corporate Control of Health Practices

Bernard J. Wolfson / Undark Jan 3, 2023 Organizers are pushing for stiffer prohibitions on the ownership of medical practices by corporations not owned by licensed doctors. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Opinion

Fixing the Broken American Healthcare System is Not Actually Hard

Sonali Kolhatkar / IMI Dec 30, 2022 If only the health care system received the same treatment that military spending gets from politicians and the public. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Race

Why Is the American Health Care System Failing Pregnant Black Women?

Duaa Eldeib / ProPublica Dec 27, 2022 They are twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth and three times as likely to die in childbirth. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Labor

Treating Farmworkers on Their Terms

David Bacon / Capital & Main Dec 20, 2022 Some Indigenous immigrant farmworkers in California visit community clinics where they choose to access western or nontraditional medicine. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

No More Empty Seats at Our Holiday Tables

Ellen Glover / Other Worlds Nov 25, 2022 The Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment (MAT) Act removes barriers to accessing buprenorphine and other treatments, and many lives can be saved if we pass it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Politics

How Low-income Voters Shaped the Midterm Elections

Shailly Gupta Barnes / Other Words Nov 17, 2022 Visions for living wages, health care, housing, and more beginning to take shape. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )