Thursday, 3 October , 2024

US Health System

Almost half of cancer patients in the US deplete entire life...

By Katy Kinner 31 January 2020 After a colon cancer diagnosis, Deb Genetin, a 57-year-old resident of Springfield, Ohio, just outside Dayton, was denied a...

Genocide by Prescription: The ‘Natural History’ of the Declining White Working...

By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya, MD Introduction: The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of ‘premature deaths’ -...

Opioid crisis trims U.S. life expectancy, boosts hepatitis C: CDC

By Julie Steenhuysen December 21, 2017 CHICAGO (Reuters) - The opioid crisis is rippling through the U.S. healthcare system, causing a spike in rates of hepatitis...

Are Pharmaceutical Companies to Blame for the Opioid Epidemic?

Recent lawsuits are asking courts whether the current crisis is comparable to the one over tobacco in the ’90s. By Alana Semuels Jun 2, 2017 Opioid abuse...