Folks, we’ve reached the end. I’d like to note that this is in no way an exhaustive list of the reasons we need universal healthcare—rather just an overview. When starting this series as a column,...
Health insurance companies are the wardens deciding our fate—what treatment and medications we can receive and when it’s more profitable to let us die. That is, of course, for the people who can afford...
Healthcare is deeply personal to millions of Americans, including myself. Our ability to access prescription medications and critical treatments is bound by the greed of the pharmaceutical industry—and...
Cleveland is overwhelmingly known for its healthcare sector. The Cleveland Clinic (CC) and University Hospitals (UH) are playing a never-ending chess game as they sprawl across the city and suburbs. Yet...
There was something incredibly poetic about the setting of Tuesday’s Presidential Debate Protest for Black Lives and Climate Justice. Looking upon the crowd from Wade Lagoon, in front of all the organizers,...
The U.S. has some of the best health care specialists in the world and has undoubtedly made remarkable advances in treating chronic diseases. The 21st century has ushered in the use of stem cells to replace...
What has our country become?
Born on the backs of slaves, raised on the sustinence of genocide as the Native population was swept away, blind to Jewish refugees seeking asylum during World War II,...
On Feb. 10, Ilhan Omar, a Democratic freshman representative from Minnesota and notably the first Somali-American in Congress, responded to a tweet asking her who she thought was paying American politicians...
“First, they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a trade unionist…”
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Life expectancy has historically been used as an indicator of a population’s health and development. While the United States has consistently rested in the top quarter of all countries in this regard,...
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