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COVID levels in Massachusetts now more than twice the national average
By Victoria D Updated on: August 2, 2024 / 7:28 AM EDT / CBS Boston To watch video report, Click Here. BOSTON – COVID numbers are rising again in Massachusetts, with the number of cases climbing at a high rate. State wastewater data shows the levels in Massachusetts are more than twice the national average. That’s based on testing…
Upon Arrival: Community-based organizations provide essential support to migrant families in Mass.
In “Upon Arrival: Migrants in Massachusetts,” we’ve been speaking with newly arrived migrant families and the organizations working with them as the state tries to manage a capacity crisis within the emergency shelter system. By Thea DiGiammerino and Kwani A. Lunis • Published July 31, 2024 • Updated on July 31, 2024 at 4:44 pm To watch video report, Click Here. Flanked on either side…
Missouri OB-GYN talks public health in a ban state and drawing on identity to inform patient care
By: Elisha Brown – August 10, 2024 5:00 am In Missouri, getting an abortion was difficult years before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Lawmakers enacted restrictions that put up hurdles to abortion care: Doctors at clinics had to get admitting privileges to nearby hospitals, and patients listened to state-mandated counseling that discouraged abortion, then waited 72…
Texas’ abortion ban has left doctors with their hands tied. New Mexico’s governor is inviting them to her state
By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Published 12:06 PM EDT, Sat August 10, 2024 Dr. R. Todd Ivey, a practicing OBGYN in Houston, Texas, opened his Sunday paper last weekend to find a letter from New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham – directed at him. “It must be distressing that a draconian abortion ban has restricted your right to…
In historic move, EPA bans pesticide; cites alarming setbacks for fetuses
Adrianna Rodriguez August 6, 2024 To watch video report, Click Here. For the first time in 40 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken emergency action to suspend the use of a pesticide found to cause irreversible damage to fetuses when they’re exposed in utero. The pesticide, dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate, also known as DCPA…
After social media outcry, CDC tells doctors to better manage IUD pain
Lindsey Bever | The Washington Post Amid a nationwide outcry from women who say they experienced severe pain when getting an intrauterine device, new federal health guidelines published Thursday are urging health-care providers to address the problem. The recommendations, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), advise clinicians to counsel patients about the potential…
‘I feel dismissed’: People experiencing colorism say health system fails them
By Chaseedaw Giles, KFF Health News Published 6:06 AM EDT, Thu August 1, 2024 Jonnae Thompson has felt for a long time that her dark brown skin and natural hair have made finding work in Hollywood especially hard. “It’s like this negative connotation,” said the 37-year-old actress, singer, and stand-up comedian, who said she is…
Heat deaths of people without air conditioning, often in mobile homes, underscore energy inequity
Advocates say air conditioning is no longer a luxury but a public health and affordability issue By ANITA SNOW August 1, 2024, 11:13 PM PHOENIX — Mexican farm worker Avelino Vazquez Navarro didn’t have air conditioning in the motor home where he died last month in Washington state as temperatures surged into the triple digits. For…
To prevent supercharged flu virus, CDC pushes seasonal flu vaccines to farmworkers at risk of coinfection with bird flu
By Jen Christensen, CNN Updated 3:58 PM EDT, Tue July 30, 2024 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday a $5 million initiative to offer seasonal flu vaccines to livestock workers in order to reduce the public health concern that a new version of the influenza virus could emerge among farm workers who…