Health Archives

Progressive news and other content on health, the healthcare system, mental health, or health insurance. From medical breakthroughs to Measles outbreaks.

Illustration of woman lying in her side breastfeeding

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If You Are Breastfeeding: How Substances Affect Your Baby

A pregnant woman wearing a seatbelt in a taxi looking at paperwork from the doctor.

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Law to “Defund” Planned Parenthood Could Cause Longer Trips for Reproductive Healthcare

by Shefali Luthra, 19th News

Mosquitoes drinking water. The insects carry dengue.

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Jokingly, we hoped there “wouldn’t be another outbreak with clowns in office”—Enter Dengue.

by Phillip Reese, KFF Health

Trump signing the Big Beautiful bill on July 4, 2025.

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In Rush To Satisfy Trump, GOP Delivers Blow to Health Industry

by Phil Galewitz

Lead pipes

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Chicago was supposed to warn residents about toxic lead pipes last year. Most still have no idea.

by Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco

Rural suicide belt. Depressed man sitting in a chair with his head down

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Rural Suicide ‘Belt’ Runs Across U.S. Through Tennessee

by Anita Wadhwani

pill bottle with pills around it on a stainless steel exam table

10

Podcast: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part 2

by Arm and a Leg Podcast

From above unrecognizable black man wearing protective mask on face of ethnic kid standing in room near window closed with curtain

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States Brace for Reversal of Obamacare Coverage Gains Under Trump’s Budget Bill

by Julia Appleby

Lead pipes photo of a rusty water pipe

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Chicago residents risk daily exposure from lead pipes. Replacing them will take decades.

by Keerti Gopal

Opioid addiction

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New Studies Find Wide Racial Disparities in Opioid Overdose Treatment

by Nada Hassanein

Vaccine vial, syringe, and mask

8

How vaccine skeptics sow doubt on established science

by Arthur Allen, Senior Correspondent

Texas boy sitting in the lap of his father

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A Texas Boy Needed Protection From Measles. The Vaccine Cost $1,400.

by Julia Appleby

Illustration of nurse giving a boy a vaccine

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Kennedy’s Vaccine Advisers Sow Doubts as Scientists Protest US Pivot on Shots

by Arthur Allen, Senior Correspondent

Nimbus the newest COVID-19 Variant

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Meet Nimbus: The newest COVID-19 Variant Frolicking Across the U.S.

by Valeria Ricciulli

Caricature of Speaker Mike Johnson

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Big Fugly Bill Lies Blow Up as Catastrophic Hospital Closures are Exposed

by The Damage Report

CDC building

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CDC Staffing Upheaval Disrupts HIV research Projects and Wastes Money

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