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Women's Health Care Rights

Dr. Melissa Gilliam, Kiersten Gillette-Pierce, C. Grimaldi Rewire
Unequal access to transportation and housing disenfranchises many low-income communities. Teenagers who attempt to obtain medical care often experience these inequalities in a heightened way given that they often lack the time, money, and autonomy required to seek the care and information they need. Black people in the United States are among the most discriminated against when it comes to health care—which is further exacerbated when they are not a cisgender man.

Boston Nurses Are Bringing Back the Strike

Sarah Betancourt In These Times
Tufts Medical Center nurses went back to work on Monday after launching the first Boston nurses’ strike in more than three decade. Despite the collective action, the roughly 1,200 nurses who walked out still face barriers to a satisfactory resolution.

Sidelining Science Since Day One

J Carter, G Goldman, G Reed, G Reed, M Halpern, A Rosenberg Union of Concerned Scientists
This administration and its allies in Congress are undermining science-based policies, violating the principles of scientific integrity, showing contempt for the role of science in general, and seeking to dismantle the very processes by which science informs public policy.

Building Resistance on Trump Island

Jane Latour The Indypendent
In Staten Island, one union local is propelling a growing labor-community alliance deep in New York’s Republican recesses.

Herbert Needleman: The Passing of a Pioneer and a Public Health Hero

Carrie Arnold PBS
In his July 21 remembrance of Dr. Herbert Needleman, Dr. Richard Jackson, former Director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health wrote in Environmental Health News, “He was brilliant, but more importantly courageous and generous.” Carrie Arnold’s May 31 PBS article explores the man and his groundbreaking research on the long term effects of lead poisoning, and why Needleman was so hated by industry, and dismissed by many in the medical establishment.