Content on theory, vision, & strategy for health. This includes content about primary healthcare, the health system, health insurance and state help for health such as medicare and medicaid, the workplace and economic challenges faced by medical professionals, alternative health models, government polices that impact healthcare, and more.
The energy blockade that the Trump administration has imposed on Cuba is hammering the island. As UN High Commissioner for Human Rights…
Two health and gender rights leaders delivered a stark assessment of what happens when major external funding disappears overnight and organised opposition…
Before dawn on Sunday, August 2, the Israeli military struck a pharmaceutical warehouse adjacent to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central…
The undeservedly discredited horse is again coming in for criticism as a food filler for items that make nary mention of its…
Nearly 10 months into a “ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip, as Israel on Tuesday killed at least one Palestinian man with an airstrike on the Nuseirat…
As World Hepatitis Day falls on 28 July, the global health community confronts a stark reality: the science to eliminate viral hepatitis,…
Everyone in America is not a policy expert. In fact, a tiny minority are. It is hardly worth arguing over this fact.…
Sixty one years ago, July 30, 1965, Congress enacted Medicare to provide health insurance for people ages 65 and older and the…
A System That Expands on Its Own The fear of Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCMs), or sanctions, is not unfounded. For example: since…
In this crucial mid-term election year, men and women who served in the military are wooing voters by presenting themselves as tougher,…
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