Worth reading: Survival, harassment, and independence

A few of the recent pieces I've liked:

Alana Semuels in The Atlantic: How Poor Single Moms Survive

Nina Martin of ProPublica interviews David Cohen: For Abortion Providers, a Constant Barrage of Personalized Harassment

Terry Fulmer at the Health Affairs Blog: Independence -- It's What Older People Want

Charles D. Ellison at The Root: Wake Up, Black People. The Supreme Court Is Poised to Drop a Bomb on You

Vanessa Heggie in The Guardian: World AIDS Day: How AIDS activists changed medical research (also, it's not a new publication, but World AIDS Day was a good opportunity to re-read this excerpt from Maryn McKenna's book Beating Back the Devil).

More like this

A few of the recent pieces I've liked: Nancy Shute at NPR's Shots blog: Nurses Want to Know How Safe is Safe Enough with Ebola Maryn McKenna at Superbug: What Would Keep Ebola from Spreading in the US? Investing in Simple Research Years Ago. (Check out the last paragraph for links to other great…
A few of the recent pieces I've liked: The excellent "Unequal Risk" series by the Center for Public Integrity's Jim Morris, Jamie Smith Hopkins, and Maryam Jameel ("Workers in America face risks from toxic exposures that would be considered unacceptable outside the job — and in many cases are…
A few of the recent pieces I've liked: Vanessa Veselka at The Atlantic: In the Wake of Protest: One Woman's Attempt to Unionize Amazon Marshall Allen at ProPublica: Without Autopsies, Hospitals Bury Their Mistakes Maryn McKenna at Superbug: Fecal Transplants: They Work, the Regulations Don't…
A few of the recent pieces I've liked: Sara Rosenbaum at the Health Affairs Blog: Planned Parenthood, Community Health Centers, And Women’s Health: Getting The Facts Right Laura Ungar at USA Today: Study: Needle exchange policy prevented HIV Maryn McKenna at Phenomena: Germination: Tickborne…