American Pharmacists Association Urges Members to Stop Providing Execution Drugs
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Women’s pregnancies are now becoming the subject of policing, prosecution, and severe sentences in an age of mass incarceration.
Lynn Paltrow, founder and executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women. She appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss the case of Purvi Patel, who became the first person in U.S. history sentenced to prison for feticide for what the state said was an attempt to end her own pregnancy.
You’ve got President Obama basically doing the bidding of all the big corporations … The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a delivery mechanism for a broad corporate agenda.
Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, explains on Democracy Now! today.
The global standard for ethical medicine today is prior, free and informed consent.
Mary Holland, research scholar at New York University School of Law, joined Democracy Now! today for a 45-minute discussion on the debate over vaccinations, parental choice and public health. She is the mother of a child with regressive autism allegedly caused by the MMR vaccine. Watch the discussion here.
Public health departments are cutting other budgets and not doing other things in order to track down and contain measles. Why should the public pay?
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, joined Democracy Now! today for a 45-minute discussion on the debate over vaccinations, parental choice and public health. Watch it here.
Both the right-wing and left-wing theories on addition are wrong.
Johann Hari, British journalist and author of the new book, “Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.” Watch his 20-minute interview on Democracy Now! today.
There has often been this narrative that James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were the lone gunmen of torture, that they were doing this out of their garage. They were operating inside a superstructure of medicalized torture. It was not just them alone. … It includes physicians’ assistants, doctors and it may include other professionals. What they were doing was everything from ‘care’ to actual monitoring, calibration and design of the tactics.
Nathaniel Raymond, a research ethics adviser for Physicians for Human Rights, who co-wrote the new report, "Doing Harm: Health Professionals’ Central Role in theCIA Torture Program.“ Watch his 20-minute interview on Democracy Now! today.
Epidemics, particularly fearful ones, bring the worst out in society and civilization and humanity. But we need to find the better parts of ourselves and treat human beings with compassion, and only restrict them if it’s absolutely necessary for the public welfare. And in this case, it clearly is not.
Lawrence Gostin, professor at Georgetown University, interviewed on Democracy Now! today about the debate over the quarantining of healthcare workers who return from West Africa.
There is a fundamental principle both of decency and common sense, which is, we should not leave people anywhere in the world bereft of a basic, functioning primary health system.
Jeffrey Sachs, economist at of The Earth Institute, which hosted the conference titled, “The Ebola Crisis: What It Means for West Africa and the World.” Watch his interview on Democracy Now! today.
I feel pretty confident that I don’t have Ebola — and that I didn’t get Ebola while I was there.
Carissa Guild, a nurse with Doctors Without Borders (MSF). She has just returned from Guéckédou in Guinea, where she took part in the Ebola response effort. Watch her interview on Democracy Now! today