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Using Alabama as a case study in rural health, this NewsHour program discusses a CDC report that shows that maternal deaths nearly doubled over three years, with over 1,200 deaths in 2021. In rural communities, where maternal mortality is almost double urban rates, there is a constant struggle to access lifesaving maternal healthcare. With support from the Pulitzer Center and in collaboration with the Global Health Reporting Center, Stephanie Sy reports...
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The rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is globally recognised as one of the greatest potential threats to human health. No new class of antibiotic has been found since 1987, and in February 2017, the UN’s World Health Organisation released its first ever list of the World’s Most Dangerous Superbugs, saying, “Within a generation, without new antibiotics, deaths from drug-resistant infection could reach 10 million a year. Without new medicines...
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"The massive global impacts of COVID-19 made the issue of pandemics and epidemics a major concern among the public, politicians, doctors, and scientific researchers. However, it is far from the first pandemic, and experts suggest that it almost certainly will not be the last. The articles in this volume consider past pandemics and epidemics to explain how certain diseases are able to spread on such a massive scale. They explain the medical advancements...
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This program highlights the perspectives of students, workers, and parents during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hampden County, Massachusetts. Fourteen interviews with youth and adults were conducted from spring 2020 through spring 2021. These run chronologically to serve as a time capsule of the effects of this pandemic felt by every-day people. Interview participants describe their newly unfolding realities, including dealing with isolation,...
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"Fatal conveniences are the toxic products we routinely use and the unhealthy things we do that our culture and corporations have made us believe are safe and necessary for living well and efficiently. These things--from deodorant, cosmetics, dental floss, and sunscreen to laundry detergent, air fresheners, carpets, and crayons to candles, tea bags, cell phones, and chewing gum--are ubiquitous in daily life . . . and they are wreaking havoc on our...
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This genre-bending African-futurist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After...