Written in the Scars: How Medical Evidence Debunks Trump’s Border Rhetoric

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Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock and Attacks on Health in Syria

In his latest briefing to the United Nations Security Council on the situation in northwest Syria, the UN’s humanitarian chief, Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock, demonstrated…

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Choosing Between Death and Deportation

For most people, the decision to schedule a doctor’s appointment when ill or injured is fairly easy to make. However, for millions of immigrants…

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Not in my Exam Room

Across communities that line the United States’ southern border with Mexico, U.S. immigration enforcement actions in or near hospitals, clinics, and other health care…