health care
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Health care workers struggle for health insurance, pensions
Medical workers in the Service Employees International Union Local 113 waged a two-day unfair labor practice strike at Regina Medical…
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Children in Katrina trailer parks suffer nutritional deficiency, anemia
A Children's Health Fund study shows that about 41 percent of children under the age of four displaced by Katrina…
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Illinois law to mandate insurance companies to cover autism treatment
The state of Illinois has passed a law requiring insurance companies to pay up to $36,000 a year for treatment…
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Florida imprisons mentally-ill juvenile
Despite diagnoses of schizophrenia, obsessive oppositional disorder and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, a nine-year-old girl in Fort Myers, Fla., has been…
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Californians’ health premiums rise five times faster than pay
According to a national advocacy group, health care premiums have risen five times faster than earnings in California since 2000.…
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Stopping breast cancer not a concern for capitalists
The article below was first published on Oct. 19, 2007. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Each time October…
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California budget an assault on working people
After the longest-ever budget delay, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a budget containing $10.3 billion in slashed expenditures and $9.6…
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Disabled activists protest death of nursing home resident
The death of a Chicago South Side nursing home resident provoked a two-fold action by Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs…
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Americans hit hard by high health care costs
A survey released Aug. 20 reveals that increasing numbers of Americans are going into debt, not getting adequate medical treatment,…
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Mexico City conference draws attention to HIV/AIDS epidemic
On Aug. 3, HIV/AIDS professionals from around the world gathered in Mexico City for the 17th International AIDS conference. The…
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