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Vaccine Patents Come with Ethical Dilemmas Bringing Life or Death

Patents are essential in the pharmaceutical industry to ensure commercial viability and financial returns but how do they effect public access to vaccines in a pandemic?

Guns Kill Kids But Policies Push the Mental Health Crisis in the US

Hospitals are buckling under the weight of an inordinate number of kids needing mental health admissions, and healthcare desperately needs help as much as the kids do.

Monsanto, Roundup, and Glyphosate. Whose Side is Science on and Why it Matters to Us?

Science gets sidelined by lobbying groups, money and institutionalized politics. This directly impacts public health and the environment.

Struggle to Survive, the First Rural Hospitals Line Up for New Federal Lifeline

Although not expected to be a permanent solution to pressures facing rural America, policymakers and hospital operators hope a new CMS program will slow the financial bleeding that continues to shutter those communities’ hospitals.