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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Teenage Girls Were Behind a Surge in Mental Health Hospitalizations
During the pandemic, the proportion of teen girls visiting emergency rooms in mental health crisis rose 22 percent.
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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.
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Drowning Is No. 1 Killer of Young Children. U.S. Efforts to Fix It Are Lagging.
Thirty years of progress in decreasing drowning deaths in the United States appears to have plateaued, and disparities in deaths among some racial groups have worsened.
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Religious Freedom Arguments Underpin Wave of Challenges to Abortion Bans
In lawsuits challenging state abortion bans, lawyers for abortion rights plaintiffs are employing religious liberty arguments the Christian right has used for decades.