Tag: Health care

  • Reality in the ICU

    Reality in the ICU

    Forget about why I was at Samaritan-Corvallis’s ICU. The day before New Year’s, I had to undergo surgery THEN because of our failed health insurance mafia system. Samaritan Health Plan ended Dec. 31 at midnight. While there, I gobbled up narratives of the people there: those doing the minute-to-minute care, and those doing the surgery. Was […]

  • Combatting Antimicrobial-Resistant Infections

    Combatting Antimicrobial-Resistant Infections

    “The Good Virus is the most important documentary film I have seen in years.” Karl Drlica, Prof. of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University New from Bullfrog Films, The Good Virus explores the global efforts of leading scientists combatting one of the most pressing health challenges of our time: the […]

  • China Changes Everything: A Book Review

    A new book edited by Kyle Ferrana, China Changes Everything, bills itself as an anthology by “social justice activists, journalists, and commentators” and brings together chapters about the People’s Republic of China written by prominent left-wing analysts, including Arnold August, Roger Harris, Radhika Desai, Carlos Martinez, Gerald Horne, Lee Siu Hin, Margaret Kimberley, Danny Haiphong, […]

  • Abortion Abolitionists All-Out Campaign to Ban Mifepristone

    Abortion Abolitionists All-Out Campaign to Ban Mifepristone

    Operation Rolling Thunder was a sustained U.S. bombing campaign over Vietnam. The Rolling Thunder Revue was a 1975–76 madcap concert tour headed by Bob Dylan, featuring  extraordinary musicians and collaborators. Now, there’s a new “Rolling Thunder”; a maximalist anti-abortion campaign aimed at pressuring the Trump administration, the FDA, Congress and the courts to ban the use […]

  • No Screening for Black Men’s Prostate Cancer Epidemic 

    Would the below statements from the American Family Physician (11/2024) be true if, after 40 years of a prostate cancer epidemic, it was White men, not Black men who have been suffering and dying? “Black men: Compared with White men, Black men have a more than 60% higher incidence of prostate cancer, an earlier age at diagnosis, […]

  • When You Suffer for Your Sanity and Struggle to Get Free

    Vincent van Gogh (Netherlands), The Starry Night, 1889. In 1930, Clément Fraisse (1901–1980), a shepherd from France’s Lozère region, was confined in a nearby psychiatric hospital after he tried to burn down his parents’ farmhouse. For two years, he was held in a dark, narrow cell. Using a spoon, and later the handle of his […]

  • The Latest Corporate Globalist Scheme

    The Latest Corporate Globalist Scheme

    WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has determined that the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR). — “WHO Director-General declares mpox outbreak a public health emergency […]

  • How Donald Trump Undermined the Health and Safety of American Workers

    How Donald Trump Undermined the Health and Safety of American Workers

    During his four years as President of the United States, Donald Trump was remarkably active and often successful in sabotaging the health and safety of the nation’s workers. Trump, as the AFL-CIO noted, targeted Medicare and Medicaid for $1 trillion in funding cuts, eroded the Affordable Care Act (thereby increasing the number of Americans lacking […]

  • Rhyming to Government and Big Pharma

    Rhyming to Government and Big Pharma

    “How Big Pharma Reaps Profits While Hurting Everyday Americans,” Center for American Progress. The pharmaceutical industry leverages Washington’s culture of corruption to increase profits while everyday Americans suffer from high drug prices. The post Rhyming to Government and Big Pharma first appeared on Dissident Voice.

  • The official death toll in Gaza is a lie: The casualty numbers are far, far higher

    The official death toll in Gaza is a lie: The casualty numbers are far, far higher

    The death toll in Gaza is way too low by every imaginable metric. We need to be stressing this – all the more so when Israel’s apologists are vigorously engaged in a disinformation campaign to suggest that the figures are inflated. On 6 May, 7 months into Israel’s slaughter, there were reported to be 34,735 […]

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