Intense lobbying helped break an impasse between progressives and moderatesHouse Democrats have passed a $1tn bill to rebuild the nation’s ageing infrastructure after months of delay, delivering Joe Biden a long-awaited legislative victory that he boas…
We must fight gender inequality in healthcare research | Letter
Less is known about women’s health than men’s – that’s because research on the former is underfunded, says Silvia HummelJessica Nordell raises several important issues facing women and people from ethnic minorities in accessing quality healthcare …
How the US vaccine effort derailed and why we shouldn’t be surprised
Low vaccine rates may be the predictable outcome subject to entrenched social forces that have diminished American health and life expectancy since the 1980s, health researchers sayDr Claudia Fegan’s patient was a congenial, articulate and unvaccinated…
Pelosi: Biden spending plan, infrastructure deal and funding ‘must pass’ next week
Speaker sends letter to party at mercy of warring factionsOne reporter observes: ‘Well, this is raising the stakes’In a letter to Democrats on Saturday the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, set her sights high, saying Joe Biden’s $3.5tn spending package, a …
US public health workers leaving ‘in droves’ amid pandemic burnout
Many workers feel stonewalled by elected officials and scapegoated for the high US Covid death tollAlexandra was working in the public health emergencies unit in a major north-eastern American city when the first wave of the pandemic hit. Although her …
Doctors treating unvaccinated Covid patients are succumbing to compassion fatigue
Exhausted healthcare workers admit they feel demoralized as the fourth surge spreads across the USLast February, Dr Bryce Meck, 30, would lock herself in the bathroom to cry for five minutes when her patients, whom she had watched over for weeks in the…
Texas judge temporarily shields clinics from anti-abortion group lawsuits
Draconian law took effect this week after supreme court nodDistrict judge responds to Planned Parenthood request‘Roe v Wade is a husk’: anguish and anger in Texas A Texas judge temporarily shielded abortion clinics from lawsuits by an anti-abortion gro…
Biden condemns US supreme court’s ‘unprecedented assault’ on abortion rights
President denounces justices for failing to block Texas banVows to ‘ensure woman have access to safe and legal abortions’Joe Biden condemned the US supreme court on Thursday, saying it had delivered “an unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional…