Gavin Newsom Vetoed a Bill to Make Condoms Available at Schools
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A California bill requiring public high schools to provide condoms to their students didn’t make it past Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk this week. The bill, SB 541, would have required schools to place condoms in at least two easily…
This Is The Largest Health Care Strike in US History
Richard Vogel/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday, an estimated 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers across five states and Washington DC walked out in the largest health care workers strike in US history. After several days of negotiations over fair labor practices and higher…
Millions of People Could Live Thanks to New Access to Tuberculosis Medication
Patrick Pleul/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Johnson & Johnson announced on Friday that the company will not enforce patents for the lifesaving tuberculosis treatment bedaquiline in 134 low- and middle-income countries globally. Bedaquiline, which was approved in 2012, is an essential part of…
75,000 Kaiser Permanente Health Care Workers Are Ready to Strike This Week
Ringo Chiu/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In just three days, the Kaiser Permanente union coalition could begin what they say will be the largest strike of health care workers in US history. On September 22, the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions issued notice…
Why the Most Important Doctors Are the Least Well Paid
Islenia Mil Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For nearly three years of med school, I teased my friends who wanted to specialize in surgery. I’d heard stories of tantrums in the operating room, of residents too tired to be friendly, much less teach. But…
Congress is Finally Fixing the (Very Broken) Organ Donor Network
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A bipartisan bill to reform the national organ donor network has reached President Joe Biden’s desk, spelling the likely end of a troubled monopoly in place for close to four decades. Signed, the law will let…