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Tag: Medicine and Health
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In Brazil, Beauty Is a Right. Are They On To Something?
Brazil’s unique plastic surgery subsidies represent the country’s view that beauty is a form of self-care.
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F.D.A. Approves First U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill
The price of the pill, which has not been announced, will determine how affordable it will be when it becomes available in early 2024.
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Racism and Sexism Underlie Higher Maternal Death Rates for Black Women, U.N. Says
Black women in Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States are more likely than their white counterparts to report denial of medication or physical and verbal abuse in health care settings.
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Coronavirus Spread Widely in Deer, and Perhaps Back to People, U.S.D.A. Says
From late 2021 to early 2022, humans transmitted the coronavirus to white-tailed deer more than 100 times, research suggests.