Health Care
Stories from the front lines of health care
Health affects all of us. Our daily reporting covers aspects of health, community, economy, international relations, and social justice relative to the health care.
Health Care
Don’t Discount the Nurses
Health care unions could be one of President Joe Biden’s most important allies in the battle to save the nation, writes Sharon Johnson. Read more
Feb 26, 2024
Israel Is Assaulting Hospitals in Gaza With Full U.S. Support
Hospitals should be places of healing, not theaters of war. Read more
Feb 19, 2024
California’s ‘CARE Court’ Isn’t a Real Solution to Homelessness
The program makes it easier to involuntarily commit unsheltered people to institutions, but what they actually need is housing, Rachel Litchman writes. Read more
Feb 14, 2024
Smart Ass Cripple: Fixing Our Broken System of Long-Term Care
Everyone in need of home and community assistance must be able to get it—without being made to feel like a burden, writes Mike Ervin. Read more
Dec 28, 2023
Predicting Pestilence
World Health Organization now says disease could be even deadlier than airstrikes in Gaza. Read more
Dec 4, 2023
Scientists Still Can’t Be Trusted on Gene Editing
Artificial intelligence poses a whole new threat to the already dangerous practice of heritable human genetic modification, writes Pete Shanks. Read more
Dec 4, 2023
To reduce workplace injuries, make jobs safer
Millions of workers in the United States are injured on the job each year, and far too many are never fully compensated, write Jessica E. Martinez and Peter Dooley. Read more
Nov 16, 2023