Health

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) described the state of healthcare in America as “barbarism,” in an upcoming episode of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) podcast. In a preview of Wednesday’s episode of “Bernie: The Podcast,” Ocasio-Cortez expressed her sadness about the high costs of healthcare and housing and the difficult choices many Americans must make, as she committed…

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An initial check by the local branch of the Pollution Control Department in Samut Sakhon province found that 15,000 tons of cancer-causing cadmium waste in smelting warehouses have not yet harmed anyone, according to Natural Resources and Environment Minister Patcharawat Wongsuwan.

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A federal judge in Philadelphia rejected a nonprofit’s attempt to open a safe drug-injection site in the city. Safehouse, the organization that seeks to provide overdose prevention services, said the threat of prosecution by the Department of Justice over potentially violating drug laws is hindering its religious rights as a group. The organization said its…

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During the Senate's hearing on the serious financial mismanagement of the Massachusetts hospitals owned by Steward Health and the increasing influence of private equity in healthcare, the chair for CEO Ralph de la Torre was conspicuously empty.