(2019-07-14). Pharma Companies Win Case Against Drug Price Transparency. therealnews.com 
One of the Trump administration's promises leading up to 2020 is to reduce prescription drug prices, but the plan has stalled after a big court loss, and other blows to Trump's grand healthcare plan. Wendell Potter discusses the implications…
(2019-07-12). Calif. mental health clinicians to Kaiser Permanente: Let us care for patients. peoplesworld.org 
After a three-week voting process, some 4,000 mental health clinicians at Kaiser Permanente facilities throughout California have rejected the health care giant's latest contract proposals by an overwhelming 88%, signaling a new phase in their long struggle to assure prompt and effective treatment for their patients. As they announced their decision June 11, the clinicians …
(2019-07-12). Djokovic says 'plant-based' diet helps him to 'recover well' and defeat allergies. thecanary.co Tennis player Novak Djokovic puts his good health and swift injury recovery times down to his plant-based diet. | The world number one says: I do eat plant-based. I think that's one of the reasons why I recover well. I don't have allergies that I used to have any more. | And I like it. | Over the course of the championships, activists have repeatedly chalked the words "Novak Djokovic is vegan" on the pavement around Wimbledon station. | But the 32-year-old insists: | I don't like the labels, to be honest. I do eat plant-based (food), for quite a few years already. | But because of the misinterpretations of labels…
(2019-07-12). "Strategic Extremism": How Republicans and Establishment Democrats Use Identity Politics to Divide and Rule. counterpunch.org 
As we know, both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are bought, sold, and paid for by big business. For that reason, both have a history of avoiding the issues that are common to Americans of all political persuasions. Addressing such issues would undermine the profits of big business. They include free healthcare, living More
(2019-07-12). Pathologizing Kids, Pharma Style. counterpunch.org Millions of kids today are on meds for conduct disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, mixed manias, social phobia and, of course, ADHD. But according to data from IMS health in a Wall Street Journal article, just as many kids are being treated for non-psychiatric conditions that were often considered More
(2019-07-12). Weekend Read: Jim Crow's fingerprints are on Florida's new voting law. splcenter.org Voting is not a privilege but a right that is essential for a healthy, well-functioning democracy.
(2019-07-12). UN's Guterres condemns ongoing airstrikes on Syria's hospitals, medical workers. un.org Reports that airstrikes have hit several health facilities in north-west Syria have been strongly condemned by the UN Secretary-General.
(2019-07-12). North America's Opioid Addiction Problem and the Institutional Machinery Keeping It Alive. counterpunch.org I recently watched the 2017 documentary, Heroin(e), directed by Elaine McMillion Sheldon which focuses upon three women—a fire chief, a judge, and a missionary—battling West Virginia's opioid epidemic. Set in Appalachia's Cabell County, this film examines the financial and real-life costs of reviving addicts in what very much seems to be an endless cycle of IV More
(2019-07-12). Melbourne's safe injecting facility under spotlight. greenleft.org.au 
Since its opening mid-last year, Melbourne's safe injecting room in North Richmond has received significant media attention. | The consensus is that the facility is saving lives and reducing substance use on the streets. | North Richmond Community Health, which is operating the facility as a two-year pilot project, has reported that 650 overdoses have been successfully reversed. | Yet community concern persists that the facility is centralising Melbourne's drug scene, with North Richmond being described as a "honey pot" for drug traffickers. | North Richmond Community Health medical director Nicholas Clark says t…
(2019-07-12). DP World workers take strike action over conditions. greenleft.org.au 
Up to 2000 waterfront workers at DP World container terminals across Australia went on strike to oppose the multinational company's attacks on working conditions. The strikes began on July 8 and continued through the week, with workers in Brisbane, Fremantle and Sydney striking for 48 hours and for 96 hours in Melbourne. | The industrial action by members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) was taken in opposition to the use of automation, outsourcing, cuts to income protection insurance and dishonest bargaining by the company, which is using change provisions in existing agreements to secure outcomes it can…
(2019-07-12). Skull of Death: Mass Media, Inauthentic Opposition, and Eco-Existential Reality in a Pre-Fascist Age of Appeasement. counterpunch.org 
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair | Alongside and consistent with other privilege- and power-serving missions, so-called mainstream corporate media's role is to keep the populace focused as best it can on relatively trivial matters and diverted from the most urgent topics of our time. | Kamala Harris Wants to Kill Your Health Insurance | Two Sundays ago, in a fit of masochistic media research, I watched some cable news talking heads do their weekly news roundups. CNN had a panel of know-it-all neoliberals who reflected on the Democratic Party's first two presidential debates. Everyone agreed that Kamala Harris had…
(2019-07-11). "Unconscionable & Unacceptable": Rep. Barragán Decries Detention of Migrant Children in Prison Cells. democracynow.org 
Yazmin Juárez, the Guatemalan mother whose child died from a lung infection after being held in an ICE detention center, testified before members of a congressional panel Wednesday. She shared the story of her daughter, 19-month-old Mariee, who died last year shortly after being released from the South Texas Family Detention Center in Dilley, Texas. Juárez filed a $60 million lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Patrol and the Department of Health and Human Services. The House subcommittee convened to examine the treatment of refugees in U.S.
(2019-07-11). Mass measles vaccination campaign begins in Ebola-hit DR Congo province. un.org Health workers have started a massive measles vaccination campaign in north-east Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a region that's in the grip of the second deadliest Ebola virus outbreak on record.
(2019-07-10). How the Climate Crisis Is Pushing Central Americans Out of Their Homes Toward the U.S. democracynow.org 
As the U.S. continues to crack down on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, we look at one of the underreported driving factors leading people to flee their home countries: the climate crisis. John Carlos Frey, author of "Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border," spent time with Central American climate refugees traveling in a caravan toward the United States. He says, "If this drought continues, we're looking at all-out famine from Central America. …That's one of the major reasons why they're coming. … The government doesn't even acknowledge the fact that there is a climate c…
(2019-07-10). Headlines for July 10, 2019. democracynow.org Children Recount Mistreatment, Sexual Abuse at Yuma, AZ Migrant Jail, Scabies, Shingles & Chickenpox Spreading Among Children at Clint, TX Migrant Jail, Jewish Activists Arrested After Protesting Migrant Detention on Capitol Hill, Judge Rejects DOJ Move to Replace Legal Team Charged with Census Citizenship Battle, Court Says Trump Cannot Block Critics on Twitter, U.K. Ambassador Resigns After Leaked Cables Scandal, Afghan Peace Talks Close as Deadly Attacks Continue, Appeals Court Hears Arguments on Constitutionality of Affordable Care Act, Megan Rapinoe to Trump: "Your Message Is Excluding People", Calls Grow fo…
(2019-07-10). Wednesday's Daily Brief: Guterres in Kenya, Prisoners sick in Iran, #GlobalGoals, Myanmar, Ukraine updates, and new space partnership. un.org This Wednesday's UN top stories are: latest global terror warnings; political prisoners denied health access in Iran; high-level discussions on Sustainable Development Goals; continued abuse of Rohingya in Myanmar; Odessa killings in Ukraine; and partnering with NASA.
(2019-07-10). Racism: Milwaukee's Public Health Emergency. progressive.org One of the most segregated cities in the United States takes on racism as a health issue.
(2019-07-09). Groundbreaking cancer-fighting drugs now included in updated UN list of essential medicines. un.org The UN health agency, WHO, announced on Tuesday that dozens of new drugs have been added to the list of essential medicines that every country should have, including new cancer treatments that can be swallowed rather than injected.
(2019-07-06). Medicare for all means radical change, not just reforms. liberationnews.org 
Healthcare, along with education, jobs, and affordable housing, are essential human rights indispensable for everyone.
(2019-06-19). House Casts Historic Vote to Repeal Authorization for Endless War. peaceaction.org Washington, D.C. — June 19, 2019 — In response to the House of Representatives passing H.R. 2740 (Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Legislative Branch, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020), which includes language to repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) eight months after …