The ending of the coronavirus US Public Health Emergency is a win for capital – but a loss for marginalised people
On 11 May, the US Department of Health and Human Services will allow the coronavirus (Covid-19) Public Health Emergency (PHE) ...
Tag: health
Residents of a Greater Manchester tower block are joining together to organise against ‘miserable’ conditions
Residents of a tower block in Salford have been campaigning for decent living conditions. After Grenfell, potentially dangerous cladding was ...
People with ME are dying while politicians do nothing and the NHS stands idly by. Enough.
The author of this article is a co-founder of the chronic illness campaign group discussed. A protest is taking place ...
UN report on ‘silent pandemic’ shows factory farming needs an overhaul
Preventing and cleaning up environmental pollution from sources like factory farming, especially in waterways, is crucial to controlling increasingly bullet-proof ...
DWP rules leave terminally ill people still not getting benefits like PIP quickly enough
One of the cruellest parts of the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) rules has become the subject of a ...
Cancer and leukemia are affecting Grenfell’s firefighters at a startling rate
Hero firefighters who fought the 2017 Grenfell Tower blaze are being diagnosed with cancers and leukaemia at a startling rate. ...
EveryDoctor GP hits back at Wes Streeting for Labour’s NHS plans
Labour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has caused uproar among medical professionals. He laid out his plans for NHS GPs ...
Wes Streeting’s NHS plans are typical of this charlatan
Labour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has enraged healthcare workers and activists with his latest NHS proposals. His comments came ...
The death of a toddler shouldn’t be a ‘learning experience’
On 15 November, the inquest into the death of 2-year-old Awaab Ishak in 2020 concluded that the toddler died due ...
There’s officially an epidemic of chronic illness in the UK
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that the number of people off sick due to chronic illness has ...
This week of lectures on race and class is not to be missed
It's a time of crisis. The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, plummeting living standards, capitalist decay, and the climate emergency affect us ...
Chronically ill people have had to protest yet again for basic support
Chronically ill, disabled people have once more taken to protesting. They're calling for funding for medical research into their disease, ...
Chronic illness: the grief behind the social media stories
Earlier in September, UK tabloid the Daily Mail caused uproar with an article about chronically ill and disabled people. It ...
Government’s unlawful care home policies led to needless suffering and excess deaths
The High Court issued a damning judgement on the government’s handling of coronavirus (Covid-19) in care homes on 27 April ...
Matt Hancock just lied about coronavirus care home deaths
Former health secretary Matt Hancock just lied about the government's knowledge of the asymptomatic transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19). It was ...
The Guardian just protected the DWP over cancer patients’ hardship
Cancer patients are struggling to eat and heat their homes. That's what a charity found when it surveyed 2,000 people ...
The DWP is still ‘penalising’ terminally ill people
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has recently changed its rules around social security claims for terminally ill people. ...
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