Open Letter to PM Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, and Kevin Hollinrake
Heather Stroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-25
Dear Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid and Kevin Hollinrake, I feel compelled to write to you over my extreme concern regarding the health and well-being of Julian Assange. Please see the link below regarding the psychological torture that Julian Assange has been subjected to, both before leaving the Ecuadorean Embassy and since during his …
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ACLU Demands Yuba Community College District Remove Anti-Transgender Health Care Exclusion
ACLU of Northern California | indybay.org | 2019-10-25
YUBA COUNTY, October 22, 2019 – The ACLU of Northern California today sent a letter to Yuba Community College District and Tri-County Schools Insurance Group calling on them to immediately remove an illegal provision in the district's employee health care plans that discriminates against transgender people with a blanket-exclusion for gender-affirming care.
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Joe Biden's Super PAC Is Being Organized by Corporate Lobbyists for Health Care Industry, Weapons Makers, Finance
Lee Fang | theintercept.com | 2019-10-25
Among the individuals are Steve Schale and Larry Rasky. The Super PAC could inject badly needed cash into the Biden campaign.
theintercept.com/2019/10/25/joe-biden-su…
One-in-four pregnancies unplanned, two-thirds of women foregoing contraceptives
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-10-25
Around two-thirds of sexually active women surveyed in a new UN study indicated that although they wished to avoid or postpone having children, they had stopped relying on contraception out of concern for how it was affecting their health. As a result, around a quarter of all pregnancies are unplanned.
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One-in-four pregnancies unplanned, two-thirds of women foregoing contraceptives
United Nations | un.org | 2019-10-25
Around two-thirds of sexually active women surveyed in a new UN study indicated that although they wished to avoid or postpone having children, they had stopped relying on contraception out of concern for how it was affecting their health. As a result, around a quarter of all pregnancies are unplanned.
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Two Leading Economists Say Medicare for All Would Give Workers 'Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise in a Generation'
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-10-25
"Supporters of Medicare for All are right. Funding universal health insurance through taxes would lead to a large tax cut for the vast majority of workers." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Two Leading Economists Say Medicare for All Would Give Workers 'Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise in a Generation'
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-10-25
"Supporters of Medicare for All are right. Funding universal health insurance through taxes would lead to a large tax cut for the vast majority of workers." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Assange's Extradition Is a Case About the Crimes of Empire
Nozomi Hayase | commondreams.org | 2019-10-24
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer, who has been deeply concerned about the treatment of Assange and his health, has been warning the public that Assange has been subjected to psychological torture.(Photo: David G Silvers. Canciller√≠a del Ecuador) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Reports highlight rising methamphetamine health crisis across US Midwest
wsws.org | 2019-10-24
The number of meth related cases reported in the state of Wisconsin alone have surged by 450 percent over the last decade.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/24/mwme…
World is closer than ever to seeing polio disappear for good
United Nations | un.org | 2019-10-24
In a "historic achievement for humanity", two of three wild poliovirus strains have been eliminated worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday, following the conclusion by a group of experts that WPV3, type three of the disease, has been eradicated completely.
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Philadelphia children poisoned by privatization, underfunding of schools
Jacob Brooks | liberationnews.org | 2019-10-24
This egregious risk to the health of children, teachers, and school workers was not due to a simple oversight — a crisis of health hazards exists across Philadelphia schools caused by underfunding and privatization of school resources…
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World is closer than ever to seeing polio disappear for good
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-10-24
In a "historic achievement for humanity", two of three wild poliovirus strains have been eliminated worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday, following the conclusion by a group of experts that WPV3, type three of the disease, has been eradicated completely.
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Top U.S. Toxicologist Was Barred From Saying PFAS Cause Disease in Humans. She's Saying It Now
Sharon Lerner | theintercept.com | 2019-10-24
Linda Birnbaum, former head of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, says she was barred from saying PFAS is a cause of human disease.
theintercept.com/2019/10/24/pfas-toxicol…
Trump "Wellness" Programs Gut Protections for Those With Pre-Existing Conditions
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-24
The Trump Administration has invited states to set up so-called wellness programs, with individual-market insurers creating plans with higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs for people who don't meet certain health targets. Such programs would gut protections for people with pre-existing health conditions. | The Affordable Care Act (ACA) barred individual-market insurers from charging higher premiums to people based on their health status, but the Administration is inviting states to undo…
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Philadelphia children poisoned by privatization, underfunding of schools
Jacob Brooks | liberationnews.org | 2019-10-24
This egregious risk to the health of children, teachers, and school workers was not due to a simple oversight — a crisis of health hazards exists across Philadelphia schools caused by underfunding and privatization of school resources…
liberationnews.org/philadelphia-children…
Labour plan to safeguard NHS scuppered as Lib Dems revert to Coalition mode
John Ranson | thecanary.co | 2019-10-24
The Liberal Democrats are facing a torrent of criticism after failing to support a vote to protect the NHS against US corporations. | Labour put forward the so-called 'regret motion' as an amendment to the Queen's Speech. It stated parliament's regret that the speech: [D]oes not repeal the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to restore a publicly provided and administered National Health Service and protect it from future trade agreements that would al…
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'Lifeline for Millions': Sanders and Warren Urge Congress to Increase Community Health Center Funding Before It Expires Next Month
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-10-24
"Congress must expand—and not allow any cuts to—the comprehensive medical treatment that so many millions of people depend on through community health centers." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Led by Pharma-Friendly Rep. Richard Neal, Democrats Crush Progressive Amendments to Signature Drug Pricing Bill
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-10-24
Neal has received over $670,000 in campaign cash from pharmaceutical companies since 2007, according to Kaiser Health News | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Military Spending's Out of Control While Slashing It Could Easily Fund Medicare for All
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-23
Something very unusual happened on Thursday, Oct. 17. The New York Times suddenly ran an article on its opinion page explaining how to cut $300 billion from the $1-trillion military budget — enough, the article explained, to fund Bernie Sanders' proposed program for an expanded Medicare program to cover all Americans without raising a dime…
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Wednesday's Daily Brief: New food agency partnership for children, conference on solidarity for Venezuela, snow leopard at risk of extinction
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-10-23
A recap of Wednesday's top stories: UN food agency partnership to feed millions of hungry children; Solidarity conference for 4.5 million Venezuelans on the move; new panel to aid internally displaced persons; healthy working conditions still not universal – UN rights expert; Environment Programme to help endangered snow leopard.
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Full Interview: Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talk Politics and 2020 With The Intercept's Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim | theintercept.com | 2019-10-22
Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez sat down with Grim to discuss the power of grassroots movements, health care, and more before Sanders's Queens rally on Saturday.
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UN health agency launches week of action to ban lead paint
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-10-22
Although exposure to lead remains a key global health concern, particularly as it impacts childhood development, only 73 countries have legally binding controls for lead paint, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported.
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Tuesday's Daily Brief: Nearly 180,000 displaced in Syria's northeast, millions of young lives hinge on funding, WHO urges lead paint ban
United Nations | un.org | 2019-10-22
A recap of Tuesday's main stories: Syria's northeast sees 180,000 displaced two weeks into fighting; funding shortfalls puts millions of young lives on the line; assistance breakthrough for Yemeni's; UN health agency urges ban on lead paint; Libyan child deaths in Tripoli attack.
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Tuesday's Daily Brief: Nearly 180,000 displaced in Syria's northeast, millions of young lives hinge on funding, WHO urges lead paint ban
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-10-22
A recap of Tuesday's main stories: Syria's northeast sees 180,000 displaced two weeks into fighting; funding shortfalls puts millions of young lives on the line; assistance breakthrough for Yemeni's; UN health agency urges ban on lead paint; Libyan child deaths in Tripoli attack.
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UN health agency launches week of action to ban lead paint
United Nations | un.org | 2019-10-22
Although exposure to lead remains a key global health concern, particularly as it impacts childhood development, only 73 countries have legally binding controls for lead paint, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported.
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Opioid crisis: Aberration, or logical outgrowth of for-profit US healthcare system?
rt.com | 2019-10-21
Four major drug companies have reached a partial settlement over their role in the opioid epidemic, dodging a federal trial. The drug plague is less of an accident than an inevitable consequence of a for-profit healthcare system. | US drug distributors AmerisourceBergen Corp., Cardinal Health Inc., and McKesson Corp. — as well as Israel-based drug manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals — have tentatively settled suits with two Ohio counties for $260 million, over charges they misled the public about the addictive potential of their drugs. The deal narrowly avoids a federal trial that was set to start on M…
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UN Committee says Ebola in DR Congo still an international public health emergency
United Nations | un.org | 2019-10-18
The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) officially remains a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, experts meeting in Geneva said on Friday.
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Patients' Needs, Not Personal Beliefs, Come First in Health Care
Lindsey Kaley | aclu.org | 2019-10-18
From the | start, the Trump administration has issued one regulation after another that uses | religion to deny people — particularly pregnant people, people with low-incomes, | and LGBTQ people — health care access and coverage. Today, we are asking | a federal district court in New York to strike down one of the most pernicious | of these regulations: the refusal of care rule. | The refusal | of care rule, issued by the Department of Health | and Human Services (…
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Patients' Needs, Not Personal Beliefs, Come First in Health Care
Lindsey Kaley | aclu.org | 2019-10-18
From the | start, the Trump administration has issued one regulation after another that uses | religion to deny people — particularly pregnant people, people with low-incomes, | and LGBTQ people — health care access and coverage. Today, we are asking | a federal district court in New York to strike down one of the most pernicious | of these regulations: the refusal of care rule. | The refusal | of care rule, issued by the Department of Health | and Human Services (…
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He Died in Jail From Dehydration. His Family Says a Leaked Video Shows it Was Murder
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-17
On this episode of the Police Accountability Report we examine the case of Shali Tilson, who died after he was jailed during a mental health crisis. But a leaked video shows he was denied water and medical treatment by GA prison authorities for a week–mistreatment his family says was criminal.
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Dem Debate: "Disingenuous" Attacks on Medicare for All Distract from Cost of Today's Broken System
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-10-16
Democratic candidates sparred at Tuesday's debate over their healthcare platforms and Medicare for All. We speak with Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a professor at CUNY-Hunter College and the co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. Moderators in the CNN and New York Times debate repeatedly pressed Elizabeth Warren on whether taxes would increase under Medicare for All. "The framing of that question is crazy," says Dr. Woolhandler. "What really matters is how much a household is paying."
www.democracynow.org/2019/10/16/sanders_…