(2019-08-13). Vaccine against chlamydia moves a step closer after successful clinical trial. thecanary.co 
A vaccine to protect against the common sexually transmitted infection (STI) chlamydia is safe and has shown promising signs of being effective, a clinical trial has found.Researchers found the vaccine provoked an immune response during preliminary tests on 35 healthy women.Further trials will now be carried out to determine whether it can fully protect against the infection, but experts say it is an "important first step" in tackling the condition."The findings are encouraging as they show the vaccine is safe and produces the type of immune response that could potentially protect against chlamydia," said Profess…
(2019-08-13). How to Be an Antiracist: Ibram X. Kendi on Why We Need to Fight Racism the Way We Fight Cancer. democracynow.org 
In his new book, "How to Be an Antiracist," professor Ibram X. Kendi urges readers to break out of the false framework of "racist" and "not racist," instead laying out what it means to be antiracist: viewing racial groups as equals and pushing for policies that create racial equity. Kendi says, "We can't just talk about racism as an original sin. We have to talk about racism as the original cancer, as this original disease that has been killing America."
(2019-08-12). Dear Progressives for Warren: Your Class Is Showing. counterpunch.org 
Let me begin by making the apparently mandatory and sacrosanct ritual offering to the gods of progressive politics in 2019: "Sure, I like Warren. In fact, I agree with her on many issues. She's not bad." There. I said it. Can we do real politics now? *** We're at that ignominious point where people from More
(2019-08-12). New Trump Rules Can Deny Green Cards to Immigrants on Food Stamps. truthdig.com 
A new initiative would allow the government to consider such factors as education, household income and health when granting legal status.
(2019-08-12). Pesticides and the Cocktail of Toxicity. dissidentvoice.org 
Dame Sally Davies is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England and recently released the CMO annual report for 2019. The report focuses on UK engagement with global health and forging partnerships. However, there appears to be no mention of cancers in the report, a serious omission according to environmental campaigner Rosemary Mason. Like many others, she …
(2019-08-12). 'The Hunt' cancellation: A healthy country doesn't ban fiction & allow real lies, hatred & violence. rt.com 
The pearl-clutching that led to the shelving of the liberals-vs-rednecks splatter film 'The Hunt' is unbefitting for any land that values artistic freedom, and utterly laughable in light of everything else happening in America.
(2019-08-12). Lawsuit Seeks to Let Medicare Patients Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage. truthout.org | | Medicare paid for Betty Gordon's knee replacement surgery in March, but the 72-year-old former high school teacher needed a nursing home stay and care at home to recover. | Yet Medicare wouldn't pay for that. So Gordon is stuck with a $7,000 bill she can't afford — and, as if that were not bad enough, she can't appeal. | The reasons Medicare won't pay have frustrated the Rhode Island woman and many others trapped in the maze of regulations surrounding something called "observation…
(2019-08-12). We Have Until Aug 13 to Oppose Trump's Anti-Trans Healthcare Plan. commondreams.org A doctor showing a patient a syringe used to inject testosterone. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2019-08-12). Elderly husband kills wife, then himself, in desperation over skyrocketing healthcare costs. wsws.org Brian Jones left a note Wednesday morning explaining that he could not afford to pay for his wife's Alzheimer's treatment.
(2019-08-12). Brazil: Indigenous Women Occupy Health Ministry, Demand Rights. telesurenglish.net Approximately 1,500 women from 113 Indigenous tribes of Brazil occupied the headquarters of the Special Secretariat of Indigenous Health (Sesai) Monday in the country's capital Brasilia in defense of the differentiated healthcare subsystem of Indigenous peoples. | RELATED: | Brazilian Government Threatens to End Indigenous Health System | "We are here representing those who have not yet come to say that we will never accept any imposition of the destructive agenda of Bolsonaro…
(2019-08-12). Sick to the Stomach: Pesticides and the Cocktail of Toxicity. globalresearch.ca Dame Sally Davies is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England and recently released the CMO annual report for 2019. The report focuses on UK engagement with global health and forging partnerships. | However, there appears to be no mention …
(2019-08-12). Portugal: Truck Drivers Start Nationwide Strike Over Low Wages. telesurenglish.net Portugal's government ordered striking fuel-tanker workers back to work in some parts of the country Monday after fuel supplies ran low amid a self-declared "energy crisis" for the second time since April. | RELATED: | Portugal's Doctors, Nurses Strike to Defend Health System, Demand Labor Rights | "The government had no alternative but to recognize the need to resort to a civil requisition," cabinet secretary of state Tiago Antunes told reporters, adding that mini…
(2019-08-12). Difficult Discussions, Not-So-Difficult Answers. counterpunch.org There are some things we should not have to discuss with our kids. Ever. My daughter will be 16 in less than two weeks. She's a good kid and, thankfully, very healthy. Sunday, August 4 was one of the hardest days we have had, however, as we tried to process the atrocity of three mass More
(2019-08-12). Paid Family Leave Is a Game Changer for New Parents' Health, Not Just Their Economic Security. thenation.com Paid Family Leave Is a Game Changer for New Parents' Health, Not Just Their Economic Security…
(2019-08-12). Progressive Policies May Hurt the Stock Market. That's Not a Bad Thing. truthout.org | | Last week, we saw the media terrified over a plunge in the stock market following an escalation of Donald Trump's trade war with China. There are good reasons to be concerned about Trump's ill-defined trade war and reality TV tactics, but the plunge in the stock market is not one of them. | While the idea that the stock market is a measure of the health of the economy permeates news reporting and popular understanding, it has no basis in economics. The stock market is a measure of the expectat…
(2019-08-09). We have Until Aug 13 to Oppose Trump's Anti-Trans Health Care Plan. aclu.org A proposed rule would undermine protections for transgender people and others facing discriminatory denials of health care and insurance coverage. | The Trump Administration has shown it will stop at nothing to undermine access to health care for marginalized communities. Most recently, the Administration has proposed to undermine critical protections against sex discrimination in Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, the Health Care Rights Law. Instead of combatting discrimination in accessing health care a…
(2019-08-09). NSW one step closer to decriminalising abortion. greenleft.org.au 
"It is simple, straight forward: stay out of the lives of women", implored one Liberal MLA as debate in the NSW Legislative Assembly on a bill to decriminalise abortion entered its second day on August 7. | Eventually, after eleven and a half hours of debate, the Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill 2019 was passed in the lower house 59 to 31 on August 8. | Speaking to Green Left Weekly the day after, NSW Greens spokesperson for women Jenny Leong said it was clear from "listening to more than 60 speeches and 12 hours of debate o…
(2019-08-09). Blood money: How big pharma created the opioid crisis. liberationnews.org 
The opioid epidemic could only have occurred in a society where profit is king.
(2019-08-08). Emergency Doctor to Trump: You Are Wrong, Mental Illness Is Not to Blame for Gun Violence Epidemic. democracynow.org 
President Trump went to Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, where he was met by hundreds of protesters condemning his presence after the mass shootings over the weekend, which killed at least 32 people. Prior to his visits, Trump hinted at the need to strengthen background checks for gun purchases, and doubled down on what some healthcare professionals say is dangerous rhetoric linking illness to mass shootings. Numerous other political figures have pointed to mental illness as a contributing factor in mass shootings. From Montreal, we speak with Dr. Megan Ranney, an associate professor of emergency medi…
(2019-08-07). A Modest Proposal: Taking Aim at Firearm Violence with Gun Insurance. progressive.org It's no panacea, but it can help heal our wounded nation.
(2019-08-06). "We Can't Wait for McConnell": Advocates Call for Bold Action to Curb Gun Violence Epidemic. democracynow.org 
The death toll in Saturday's anti-immigrant shooting rampage at a Walmart in El Paso has risen to 22, after two more injured victims died Monday. Just before the shooting, the gunman published a manifesto claiming his actions were being done in response to what he described as a "Hispanic invasion of Texas." Most of the dead in El Paso were Latino, including eight Mexican nationals. Thirteen hours after the massacre in El Paso, a gunman in Dayton, Ohio, killed nine people, including his own sister, after opening fire outside a bar. We speak with Kris Brown, president of Brady, formerly the Brady Campaign to Preve…
(2019-08-05). Take Away My Employer-Based Health Insurance. Please. progressive.org Centrist Democrats like Joe Biden still aim to gin up mass fear over the prospect of leaving behind predatory insurers and the dizzying array of deductibles, co-pays, exclusions, humiliations, and rationing of care that characterizes our current syst…
(2019-08-02). Ex-Health Insurance Exec: Industry Is Using Decades-Old Scare Tactics to Fight Medicare for All. democracynow.org 
The Democratic presidential candidates remain deeply divided on how to expand healthcare to the tens of millions of Americans who are uninsured or underinsured. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have both pushed for abolishing private health insurance and establishing a Medicare for All system. Their rivals have pushed a number of different, more incremental approaches. During the first night of the latest debates, Sanders pointed out that the country has taken sweeping action before to expand health coverage to millions of Americans, referring to the 50th anniversary of the creation of Medicare and Me…
(2019-07-30). Venezuela: Six Chavista Militants Killed in Fresh Rural Violence. venezuelanalysis.com Landowner violence continues to plague the Venezuelan countryside.
(2019-07-25). This County Criminalized Students for Bad Grades — Until Now. aclu.org Today, we filed a landmark settlement that will end the relationship between the probation department and school districts in Riverside. | Since 2001, the Riverside County, California probation department has been needlessly funneling young people struggling with grades, behavior, trauma, and mental health into the criminal justice system. | This direct line to the criminal system is the product of a partnership between local school districts and the county probation department called the Youth Accountability Team (YAT). Instead of counselors or other school and community-based supports stepping in to support and…
(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 …