A growing shortage of drugs key to the treatment of cancer today, which could mean life or death for millions of people, exposes in one of the most graphic ways how health care in the U.S. is sacrificed to the…
Increasing numbers of older workers who have turned to assisted-living facilities for housing and care are unable to cover the huge costs and increasing “add on” fees the profit-hungry bosses impose on them. This reflects the social and moral crisis…
With pitiless disregard for the consequences, state officials have kicked at least 2 million children off Medicaid coverage over the past seven months, exacerbating severe challenges workers face trying to raise and care for families. “The figures, which are likely…
Two days after Shamony Gibson from the Brooklyn borough of New York City came home from the hospital with her baby boy in September 2019, she began experiencing chest pains and shortness of breath. Her partner, Omari Maynard, told the…
NEW YORK — The May 1 death of Jordan Neely on the subway here followed by the district attorney charging Daniel Penny with second-degree manslaughter generated a wide-ranging debate and discussion on what happened and why. Neely, a 30-year-old African…
To the profit-driven capitalist rulers, the lives of retired workers, especially those with disabilities, don’t mean much, as there’s no longer any profits to be made through exploiting their labor. One reflection of the social and moral crisis of their…
COVID-19 cases are on the rise in the U.S. and worldwide. Close to 3,000 people died across the country in the third week of December, nearly 90% of them over 65 years old. Hospitalizations have increased 30% over the last…
Opioid overdoses ravaging cities and rural areas alike killed nearly 110,000 people in the U.S. last year. And increasing numbers of state governments are legalizing and seeking to profit off the sale of marijuana. At the Cannabis World Congress and…
“Angels on Horseback: Midwives in the Mountains,” a KET-TV documentary on PBS, brings to light a pioneering initiative to provide health care in rural Appalachia. Begun in 1925, the Frontier Nursing Service reduced infant mortality and maternal deaths in eastern…
Millions of workers worldwide bristled with anger when they heard that French President Emmanuel Macron — a multimillionaire former investment banker — told Le Parisien in a Jan. 4 interview that he intended to “piss off” all those who remain…
