6+ hour, 49+ min ago   (207+ words) World Socialist Web Site Senator Ron Johnson, a long-time opponent of COVID-19 vaccination, now chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, whose first hearing of this Congress was titled “The Corruption of Science and Federal Health Agencies.” The vaccine works, and…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (580+ words) A new study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has confirmed what miners, their widows and black lung clinic physicians have warned for years: the deadly and preventable disease has returned to levels not seen in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (484+ words) A further 11,844 cases have not been laboratory-confirmed or remain under investigation, bringing the total to roughly 29,000 illnesses. Travel-associated infections, 1,805 of them, are counted separately. Among confirmed patients, the median age is 46, while the age range runs from 1 to 99, and the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (288+ words) The RCN analysed 383 cases of internationally educated nursing staff in adult social care between 2023 and 2025. UNISON surveyed 3,306 migrant care workers between November 2024 and January 2025. Together, their findings indict a sector dependent on migrant labour while denying migrant workers elementary security....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (706+ words) The CDC claimed that available information does not establish whether measles caused or contributed to the deaths, or whether the two “died from other causes while infected with measles.” That last phrase is the argument itself, written into the surveillance…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (973+ words) Over 1,000 doctors from Melbourne’s major inner-city public hospitals struck for four hours on Thursday, August 20, rallying outside the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Parkville. It was the first strike since 2002 by Victorian doctors, who voted 97 percent in favour of industrial…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (412+ words) As part of the looming humanitarian crisis in the wake of Nepal’s flash flood disaster, the health and safety of tens of thousands of children are at risk in overcrowded shelters without basic necessities. The number at one shelter doubled…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (818+ words) Nurses at New Zealand’s North Shore Hospital in Auckland last month declared a “state of emergency,” saying chronic understaffing and severe overcrowding are putting patients at risk. “We will not accept the normalisation of preventable harm or the continued degradation…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (640+ words) Across the length of Chile, from Coquimbo to the southern archipelagos, schools in working-class and rural communities are in such a state of decay that they were infested with rodents. In the Coquimbo Region, the Teachers Association of La Serena…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (804+ words) Two people are dead in Pennsylvania of a disease the United States eliminated a quarter of a century ago. They are the first measles deaths in the commonwealth in 35 years and the first anywhere in the country this year. The…...