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How Trump’s global health budget endangers Americans
Pandemics – global outbreaks of infectious diseases like the 1918 influenza that killed 40 million people and the 2009 H1N1 virus, which caused up to 203,000 fatalities – ...
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HIV/AIDS funding is an investment worth protecting
A recent study by the Antiretroviral Therapy Cohort Collaboration found that young people living with HIV have about the same life expectancy as the general population. ...
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Is the developed world we’ve created giving us cancer?
I had assumed that the small lump in my breast was a blocked milk duct from nursing my seven-month-old son. The news that I had stage 2 breast cancer stunned. “But it’s ...
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As scientists train the immune system to fight cancer, others look to combat costs
Poison, radiation or surgery. For decades now, these have been the only weapons available in the war against cancer. But everyone who has known cancer up close – ...
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How yoga is helping girls heal from trauma
Rocsana Enriquez started thinking about yoga again when she was pregnant. She was 19 and in an abusive relationship. When she was younger, Rocsana, whom I interviewed ...
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Why stable relationships are ‘poison control’ in fighting trauma and stress in kids
Editor’s note: May is Mental Health Awareness Month. This article is part of a series exploring how research into adverse childhood experiences – or ACEs – is helping ...
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The steps that can help adults heal from childhood trauma
Editor’s note: This article is the third in a series exploring how research into adverse childhood experiences – or ACEs – is helping researchers, therapists, parents, ...
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Why a monthly period is especially hard for millions of women and girls around the world
Millions of girls and women are displaced and on the move right now globally – and the Trump administration’s proposed drastic cuts to humanitarian aid will have a major ...
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How Trump Budget and the AHCA are dismantling America’s safety net
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on May 24 released its long-awaited analysis of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) passed by the House of Representatives three ...
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Building resilience early in life can help children cope with trauma
Editor’s note: This article is the second in a series exploring how research into adverse childhood experiences – or ACEs – is helping researchers, therapists, parents, ...
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