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Women's and Maternal Health
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Overactive bladder affects 33M Americans, leading to frequent urination and incontinence. Many suffer in silence due to embarrassment, but medical treatments can improve their quality of life.
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Millions feel the fallout of the end of Roe.
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The patients who need these potentially lifesaving services the most can’t always get them.
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In other news, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis takes aim at vaccine and mask mandates.
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This story was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's National Fellowship.
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There are few staff to monitor Nebraska’s vast swaths of farmland, thousands of cattle feedlots, large hog operations and chicken farms. And the agencies’ own regulations don’t give the staff many tools to combat malpractice.
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Nisha thought that violence in a marriage was simply what every Indian wife ‘had to accept’ in her husband’s home. She was only 24.
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This lack of access to menstrual products, hygiene facilities, education or waste management is referred to as period poverty, or menstrual poverty.
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Recent studies have found that areas with elevated nitrate levels also have elevated levels of lymphoma, leukemia and brain cancers in children.