Latest Health

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  Monbiot: Carmageddon Beckons

  Car use takes a huge toll on our health and on the planet. We need to kick our addiction to driving
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  Falk: Testing for the Mental Disabilities of U.S. Presidential Candidates

  The Trump candidacy is certainly not the first time that a demagogue’s manifest mental disorders are a principal explanation of his passionate populist support, but it could be the last time
• Pelet: Puerto Rico’s Invisible Health Crisis

  The island of Vieques has some of the highest sickness rates in the Caribbean. Is the U.S. Navy responsible?
• Gaffney: Socialize the EpiPen

  The EpiPen mess shows that we need drugs that function as real social goods, not rent-producing commodities
• Reitman: Zika: The Epidemic at America’s Door

  Zika may have already infected 80,000 Americans, just in Puerto Rico, and Congress has refused to act — what if Miami or New York is next?
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  Shah: Do the Olympics Actually Make the World Less Healthy?

  If Zika does expand thanks to the Olympics, it won’t be the first pathogen to exploit a mass sporting event
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  Mokhiber: Save the Patients

  Meet Richard Larison. He is the CEO of Chase Brexton,...
• Pacelle: How Factory Farming Is Giving Rise to Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs

  In addition to causing immense animal suffering, factory farms are spawning dangerous superbugs that current antibiotics are powerless against
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  Winslow: Portland Teachers Expose Lead in Schools

  Periodic lead testing showed the presence of lead in Portland schools’ drinking water back in 2001. Between 2010 and 2012, the district found unsafe levels of lead in 47 schools
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  Rosenberg: You Won’t Believe the Outrageous Ways Big Pharma Has Bribed Doctors to Shill Drugs

  Doctors seldom have to go hungry at lunchtime when Pharma reps are around
• Al-Bulushi: The Roots of Ebola

  A long history of multinational corporate exploitation and political corruption crippled West Africa’s response to the Ebola epidemic
• Knowlton: How to Take the Initiative in Health Care Bargaining

  A system where you make workers pay more and more of their incomes for insurance every year isn’t sustainable
• Holloway: Cheap Meals From Big Pharma Can Make Doctors Prescribe Expensive Drugs

  A new study suggests pharma can spend a little and get a lot in return
• Rodriguez: At Least 33 US Cities May Be Hiding Lead in Drinking Water

  At least 33 large cities in the United States may be improperly testing tap water in order to pass FDA regulations on allowable levels of lead
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  Shah: From Zika to Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs: Welcome to the New Age of Contagions

  Today’s deadly new pathogens aren’t just a scientific challenge, they’re a political one
• Rowlands: Antibiotic Resistance Requires Global Response Similar to AIDS, Climate Change

  Any potential global regulations should be able to draw on positive examples from countries which have successfully regulated the use of antibiotics in farming
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  Fitz: The 3,000 Who Stayed

  How does a poor Latin American country make a transformative medical revolution?
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  Rosenberg: What Big Pharma Does Not Want You to Know About the Opioid Epidemic

  The Pharma-driven opioid epidemic may be as big a con as the mortgage housing bubble collapse
• Quigley: From Cancer Patient to Medicines Activist

  It is Hannah Lyon’s first-ever experience with public speaking, but...
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  Sturgis: N.C. produces flawed study to dismiss cancer-cluster fears near Duke Energy coal plants

  Is it surprising that people living near these plants report unusual patterns of illness?