The UK NHS in crisis - evaluating radical alternatives ~health healthcare Article 3532 words, published Jul 31 2023 10 votes
2022 guidance from President Biden's administration assures doctors they’ll be protected by US federal law for providing emergency abortion care even if their state bans the procedure ~health medicine healthcare.emergency Article 599 words, published Jul 11 2022 40 votes
Barriers to US transgender health care lead some to embrace a do-it-yourself approach ~lgbt transgender Article 3116 words 22 votes
White House launching $5 billion program to speed coronavirus vaccines ~health medicine Article 1388 words 3 votes
Covid backlash hobbles US public health and future pandemic response ~health Article 2189 words 8 votes
Lawmakers in Finland have approved a legislative reform that will ease the process of getting an abortion in the country ~health healthcare Article 216 words 5 votes
Food and Drug Administration clears path for hearing aids to be sold over the counter in the USA ~health healthcare Article 912 words 18 votes
Did Sweden's controversial COVID strategy pay off? In many ways it did – but it let the elderly down ~health healthcare Article 965 words 10 votes
Denmark has unveiled plans to ban the sale of cigarettes and nicotine products to any citizens born after 2010 ~health Article 230 words 5 votes
Daily glass of wine is bad for you, World Heart Federation says in new policy ~health Article 13 votes
George Washington and the first mass US military inoculation ~humanities.history Article 604 words 6 votes
Tobacco firm Philip Morris calls for ban on cigarettes within decade ~health Article 286 words 19 votes
PrEP, the HIV prevention pill, must now be totally free under almost all US insurance plans ~health healthcare medicine Article 1158 words 16 votes
Mental health response teams yield better outcomes than police in NYC, data shows ~health.mental Article 422 words 14 votes
US Food and Drug Administration to propose ban on menthol-flavored cigarettes, with industry likely to challenge ~health Article 790 words, published Apr 29 2021 15 votes
Miscarriage bereavement leave bill passes unanimously in New Zealand Parliament ~life family parenting Article 548 words 15 votes
Hiding COVID-19: How Donald Trump Administration guidance suppresses photography of the US pandemic ~health Article 3099 words 6 votes
Denmark's Minister of Agriculture has resigned over an illegal government order to cull the country's farmed mink – Mette Frederiksen also faced opposition calls to resign ~health Article 442 words 7 votes
The German government's new coronavirus ad, subtitled in English ~health Tweet @Axel Antoni: The German Govt's latest Corona advert - now subtitled in English. Quite good. pic.twitter.com/nbRZIm9RcN 11 votes
Polish government delays abortion ban after two weeks of protests across the country ~health Article 273 words 26 votes
Japanese sex business operator sues state over virus cash handout snub ~health Article 522 words 7 votes
United States House subcommittee releases coronavirus task force reports kept secret by the White House ~health Article 884 words 18 votes
Why has the Republican response to the pandemic in the USA been so mind-bogglingly disastrous? ~health Article 5852 words 11 votes
US Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Donald Trump administration shifted control from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ~health Article 740 words 6 votes
White House ordered National Institutes of Health to cancel coronavirus research funding, Anthony Fauci says ~health Article 795 words 15 votes
The US federal government will now allow health care providers to deny care to anyone they perceive as trans or gay ~lgbt transgender Article 1738 words, published Apr 24 2020 38 votes
Brazil’s favelas, neglected by the government, organize their own coronavirus fight ~health healthcare Article 1190 words 7 votes
Andrew Cuomo gave legal immunity to nursing home execs after big campaign donations. Critics say data proves New York's liability shield is linked to higher nursing home death rates. ~health healthcare Article 2943 words 11 votes
Ontario to explore criminal charges against five long-term care homes in scathing military report, says Premier Doug Ford ~health Article 503 words 7 votes
Explosive whistleblower complaint by ousted US Health and Human Services official says he was pressured to give contract to Donald Trump-friendly pharma firm ~health Article 615 words, published May 5 2020 11 votes
How Jared Kushner's volunteer force led a fumbling hunt for US supplies ~health Article 834 words 4 votes
A handful of US cities have passed soda taxes, but are they working? ~health Article 665 words, published Feb 26 2020 5 votes
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo orders all people to wear face coverings in public ~health Article 96 words 11 votes
Mayor London Breed’s early and aggressive moves to contain the outbreak have made San Francisco a national model in fighting the pandemic ~health Article 2316 words 7 votes
More than 2,200 coronavirus deaths in nursing homes, but US federal government isn't tracking them ~health healthcare Article 1162 words 9 votes
For jobless Americans, Obamacare is still a potential lifeline ~health healthcare Article 1292 words 3 votes
Scotland's chief medical officer has resigned after making two trips to her second home during the coronavirus lockdown ~health Article 683 words 8 votes
New York is merging all its hospitals to battle the coronavirus ~health healthcare Article 1060 words 9 votes
Larry Hogan, Ralph Northam, Muriel Bowser order residents in Maryland, Virginia, DC to stay at home ~health Article 1663 words 7 votes
Preliminary evidence suggests Bay Area shelter-in-place order is flattening the curve ~health Article 1004 words 11 votes
LA, other SoCal cities cracking down on crowds at parks, beaches to stem spread of COVID-19 ~health Article 454 words 5 votes
Mexican president passes coronavirus buck to allies, rivals, business ~health Article 592 words 8 votes