SRINAGAR, INDIA – When record-breaking rains, landslides and cloudbursts lashed northern India in late August — across Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh — highways turned into rivers, homes collapsed and death tolls mounted. But beneath the visible destruction lies a quieter emergency: public health systems buckling under the strain. In Kashmir, the Jhelum […] Continue reading ->
A new White House “pocket rescission package” threatens to throw the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Americas branch of the World Health Organization, into a financial crisis – if it is not stopped by the US Congress before the end of September. The White House order, announced on the eve of the long US […] Continue reading ->
Details from the resignation letters of top officials from the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the government’s top health experts have been ignored and sidelined by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. Kennedy has never been briefed by any experts from the CDC’s National Center […] Continue reading ->
Thinking back to five years ago, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was living around the corner from the Brooklyn Hospital Center. Each day, I’d take a walk through the neighborhood, but those walks became hauntingly different as I started passing refrigerated trucks parked outside – temporary morgues, there to handle the overwhelming […] Continue reading ->
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has been given until 2 September to stop spreading anti-vaccine information by hundreds of current and former staff members from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the HHS. In a letter released by “Save HHS” on […] Continue reading ->
ROHTAK (Haryana), India – When 22-year-old Sunita* rushed her father to a private hospital in for a cardiac emergency earlier this month, she expected her government health insurance scheme, Ayushman Bharat–Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (known as PM-JAY), which promises to cover hospital expenses up to ₹5 lakh (around $5,725) per family, would spare her family […] Continue reading ->
US non-profit groups have vowed to fight on after losing their court bid this week to compel the Trump administration to restore Congress-approved foreign aid it had stopped in January. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to overturn a District Court ruling that compelled the US government to restore some […] Continue reading ->
The Trump administration’s approach to pesticides could determine whether it continues to enjoy the support of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Key MAHA leaders, including the leaders of Moms Across America and Children’s Health Defense, wrote a letter to President Donald Trump on Monday urging him not to support “broad […] Continue reading ->
GENEVA — The world’s attempt to forge a plastics treaty billed as the most important environmental deal since the Paris climate accord is falling apart after three years of talks. With negotiations due to end Thursday evening, 184 nations gathered in Geneva remain deadlocked over basic definitions, the scope of the treaty and whether to […] Continue reading ->
GENEVA — Fossil fuel and petrochemical lobbyists have descended on UN plastics treaty negotiations in record numbers, as delegates from over 180 countries attempt to forge a global agreement to stem the tsunami of plastic pollution drowning the planet. According to a new analysis by the Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL), at least 234 […] Continue reading ->
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