5 July 2008
US: Mentally ill woman left to die in hospital waiting room

31 March 2008
Behind the California nurses' strike: putting profits ahead of patient needs

19 February 2008
Largest beef recall in US history reveals compromised food supply

30 January 2008
Filipino nurses face trumped-up charges in New York

19 January 2008
Another belated disclosure from the pharmaceutical industry Cholesterol-lowering drug linked to increased risk of heart attack

Possible flu pandemic: US government plans to treat sick people "like potential enemies"

5 January 2008
US poor and uninsured suffer substantially worse health outcomes

26 October 2007
US: Maine nurses union agrees to demands of hospital administrators

2 October 2007
Bush to veto expansion of children's health coverage

15 September 2007
California mental health care cuts: a cynical attack on the poor

31 August 2007
Bush administration attacks child health insurance program

22 August 2007
Workers, students speak out against closure of Los Angeles hospital

21 July 2007
Bush plans veto on child health bill

17 July 2007
Former surgeon general describes Bush administration's interference on science and health issues

2 July 2007
US: Local and federal agencies threaten to shut down Los Angeles hospital

26 June 2007
Detroit Riverview Hospital to close: "Losing this hospital will devastate this community"

22 June 2007
Death in Los Angeles hospital exposes social crisis in US

26 May 2007
US: FDA accused of negligence over diabetes drug

23 April 2007
Study details US junk food industry's targeting of youth through TV ads

21 March 2007
Hundreds of thousands hit by anti-immigrant measure
US: Medicaid recipients denied benefits under proof of citizenship law

6 March 2007
Los Angeles hospitals investigated for "dumping" homeless patients

27 January 2007
Study finds substantial rise in cigarette nicotine content

3 January 2007
Medicare premiums to rise significantly for 1.6 million in US

21 December 2006
US breast cancer decrease tied to drop in hormone replacement therapy use

US: Hundreds sickened by contaminated food

14 December 2006
New York State commission demands hospital closings

22 November 2006
Bush appoints "choose life" conservative to head family-planning programs

2 October 2004
US: Millions of Medicare beneficiaries to be left without drug coverage

3 May 2006
Medical emergency: Facilities and care in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

17 March 2006
US: Florida Medicaid cuts target food for disabled children

7 December 2005
Study finds hundreds of toxic chemicals in umbilical cords of newborns

6 December 2005
Bush uses World AIDS Day to push Christian right agenda

3 November 2005
Bush bird flu plan includes windfall for pharmaceuticals giants

25 October 2005
Florida Medicaid privatization plan approved
Major step in destruction of entitlement program

17 September 2005
US: courts deny right to challenge Medicaid violations

6 July 2005
States enact Medicaid cuts in new fiscal year

14 June 2005
Supreme Court upholds federal ban on medical marijuana use

11 May 2005
US: states, federal government prepare massive Medicaid cuts

19 March 2005
US Congress witch-hunts players in baseball steroids scandal

9 February 2005
Medical bills cause more than half of US personal bankruptcies

8 February 2005
Amid sweeping cuts in US budget
Bush plans renewed assault on Medicaid

3 January 2005
The drug industry's chokehold on America's health care
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to do About it, by Marcia Angell M.D.

31 December 2004
US: Bush administration targets medical care for the poor

24 December 2004
US: new questions about safety of anti-inflammatory drugs

4 December 2004
New Jersey study indicts jailing of mentally ill youth

22 November 2004
The Vioxx scandal: damning Senate testimony reveals drug company, government complicity

10 November 2004
The Vioxx recall: cover-up of health risks may have resulted in thousands of deaths

1 November 2004
US officials debate how to ration flu vaccine

26 October 2004
The US flu vaccine crisis: a debacle for profit-based medicine

10 July 2004
Supreme Court gives HMOs immunity from damage suits

23 June 2004
82 million Americans lacked health insurance in 2002-2003

31 March 2004
The selling of Bush's Medicare plan: a case history of political gangsterism

20 March 2004
Lead contamination of water supply in US capital

13 March 2004
US: Weirton Steel cancels health care for 10,000 retirees

21 February 2004
Hospitals oppose US government effort to obtain abortion patients' records

3 February 2004
Poisoning for profit: Book exposes US corporate cover-up of toxic pollution
Part 2

2 February 2004
Poisoning for profit: Book exposes US corporate cover-up of toxic pollution
Part 1

30 January 2004
Institute of Medicine calls for universal health care in US

Oregon budget crisis leads to closure of three hospitals

26 January 2004
Beef industry, federal regulators long ignored warnings
Mad cow discovery punctures myth of US firewall against disease

22 December 2003
Influenza nearing epidemic levels in the US

9 December 2003
The Medicare fraud and the decay of American democracy

5 December 2003
An exchange on "Medicare bill marks major step in destruction of government health plan for US seniors"

26 November 2003
Medicare bill marks major step in destruction of government health plan for US seniors
A windfall for drug companies, private health insurers

Bush, House Republicans rig vote to pass Medicare bill

8 October 2003
IBM "corporate mortality file"
Computer workers' deaths linked to cancer-causing chemicals

30 June 2003
The politics of US Medicare "reform": cynicism, cowardice and social reaction

25 June 2003
US: New coal dust standards mean increased black lung for miners

24 June 2003
California budget targets health care

19 June 2003
One-third of US children born in 2000 at risk for diabetes

4 April 2003
Casualties of Bush "anti-terror" campaign: Three deaths linked to smallpox vaccine

1 March 2003
US health care workers spurn Bush smallpox vaccination plan

22 January 2003
US: New attacks on Medicare and Medicaid

30 November 2002
Los Angeles health system near meltdown

17 October 2002
More than 41 million Americans without health insurance

10 October 2002
Bush administration proposes crippling cuts in Medicare

23 August 2002
West Nile Fever spreading throughout US

22 August 2002
Media silence on background to the Pennsylvania mine disaster
Occupational hazards kill thousands of US workers every year

9 August 2002
Another debacle for US health care
Congress fails to adopt prescription coverage for the elderly

10 July 2002
New York doctor charged with maiming mental patients at for-profit facilities

7 November 2001
It's not like "ER"-The scandal of patient dumping in US hospitals

20 October 2001
First things first... Bush protects drug giant's patent on anthrax medicine

3 August 2001
Arsenic and old waste: US Congress debates Bush environmental policy

7 July 2001
Patients' Bill of Rights: not even a band-aid for US health care crisis

19 June 2001
Striking Minneapolis nurses describe chronic staffing shortages

6 April 2001
Documentary exposes workplace, environmental poisoning by US chemical industry
PBS TV's "Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report"

22 March 2001
Tuberculosis on the rise in the Washington DC area

23 January 2001
US health plans drop coverage for nearly one million elderly and disabled members

7 October 2000
US Food and Drug Administration approves RU-486 abortion pill

6 October 2000
US chemical pollution threatens child health and development

14 June 2000
12 million young adults in the US lack health insurance

19 May 2000
Dangers persist of nuclear contamination in Los Alamos wildfire

9 May 2000
Nyack, New York hospital nurses strike in fifth month

28 April 2000
Half of US bankruptcies caused by medical problems, new study finds

18 April 2000
Study finds that US doctors must deceive insurers to provide quality health care

24 March 2000
Mental illness and the American dream: Part 1 and Part 2

23 March 2000
New York denies asthma treatment to homeless children
Federal class action lawsuit filed

22 February 2000
The impact of social polarization in the US
Study shows higher cardiac death rates in major cities, rural South

12 February 2000
Patients and health care advocates in Michigan protest Medicaid cuts

26 January 2000
Clinton panel rejects call for mandatory reporting of hospital errors

8 January 2000
Mercy Hospital to close on Detroit's east side

12 November 1999
Five dead in Flint, Michigan nursing home blast

7 October 1999
Census reports highlight inequality, stagnating living standards
44 million Americans lack health insurance

New York City reports outbreak of West Nile virus

26 August 1999
New York's asthma rates reveal social disparities

3 July 1999
Clinton's Medicare plan would undermine universal health insurance for the elderly

Michigan to begin drug testing of welfare recipients

31 March 1999
New York welfare policy claims a second infant's life

26 March 1999
Another victim of welfare reform: 11-month-old baby dies in Pennsylvania house fire

23 January 1999
Detroit Medical Center begins layoffs

13 January 1999
Detroit Medical Center announces job cuts

2 October 1998
US Department of Health and Human Services report
The prosperous live longer

21 May 1998
Hospital spurns dying youth

19 February 1998
ILO: US provides least maternity support in industrialized world

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