New York City this week announced it would launch what it described as the first-of-its-kind Abortion Access Hub — a phone line that confidentially connects callers to licensed abortion care providers within…
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More than 90 percent of the country’s coal plants are contaminating water across 43 states, according to a new report. And nearly half of them have no plans to clean up…
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Click here for more.The pandemic has been a great disruptor for many industries and, in some cases, hastened overdue changes. Across many growth markets, it helped accelerate an ongoing transformation in the social…
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“The WHO is,” says Oyewale Tomori, “well, I know the W stands for World, but sometimes I think it stands for White.” Tomori is a virologist at Redeemer’s University and the…
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Interviews with family members who cared for COVID-19 patients after hospital discharge reveal unique challenges. Roughly 21% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at the height of the pandemic required an intensive…
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Only 12% of people between the ages of 50 and 64 say they’re very likely to step forward to test a new dementia-prevention drug, and 32% say they’re somewhat likely,…
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Working from “home” in a parking lot. Job interviews on laggy Zoom calls. Students trying to log onto class from a cell phone. For all of the already devastating and bitterly unequal…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is set to review a drugmaker’s application for the first over-the-counter birth control pill in November 2022, with a decision expected in the first…
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Detecting cancer early before it spreads throughout the body can be lifesaving. This is why doctors recommend regular screening for several common cancer types, using a variety of methods. Colonoscopies,…
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Rural school districts suffered the smallest academic setbacks in math during COVID compared to urban and suburban systems, yet simultaneously the largest losses in reading, new data show. The puzzling…
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According to the latest Global Economic Prospects Report, by the end of 2022, the world will be, at best, half-recovered. Perhaps the single most important reason for the unequal recovery is…
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In one of the first studies to explore how COVID-19 specifically affects older infants, researchers found that the number of infected people in a household was the factor most closely…