Health Care Companies Are Using Debt to Trap Nurses on the Job
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After graduating from a Denver nursing school in 2016, Neil Rudis knew the real training wouldn’t start until his first job—ideally in acute care at a Level 1 trauma center treating the sickest and most injured patients. So he…
Wait, Tampons Weren’t Being Tested With Human Blood?
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Until last week, no study had ever been published that tested period products—tampons, pads, discs, cups, and underwear—using human blood. A team of four women just changed that. On August 7, Dr. Bethany Samuelson Bannow…
The FDA Has Approved the First-Ever Pill for Postpartum Depression
PeopleImages/iStock/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first pill specifically designed to treat postpartum depression, a common condition affecting mothers that can make it harder to bond with a new baby by causing severe despair, anxiety, shame,…
Henrietta Lacks’ Family Reaches Settlement With Company Profiting Off Her Stolen Cells
Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The HPV vaccine. Genetic mapping. The polio vaccine. All of these medical miracles were made possible by Henrietta Lacks, a Virginia woman whose cells were taken without her permission in the early 1950s and used for…
Phoenix Just Had Its Hottest July Ever. So What Now?
Charles Sanders, 59, right, pauses as Kevin Hendershot, 47, pours ice into a bucket outside their tent in “The Zone” homeless encampment in downtown Phoenix during historic 2023 heatwave.Matt York/AP This story was originally published by the Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. That Phoenix is hot should come as…
Report: More Than 3 Million People Were Kicked Off of Medicaid in 38 States
Elan Irving/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The damage from the rollback of a key pandemic-era measure that provided healthcare for low-income Americans continues to unfold. Nearly 4 million people are no longer covered by Medicaid, the Washington Post reports, with many of those…