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Listening to youth voices was missing in the COVID-19 pandemic response
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Health care workers gain 21% wage increase in pending agreement with Kaiser Permanente after historic strike
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A child’s sense of attachment with parents or caregivers is formed from the consolidation of a series of interactions and
New treatment for postpartum depression offers hope, but the stigma attached to the condition still lingers
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The impact of not having a family doctor: Patients are worse off, and so is the health system
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COVID-19 vaccine mandates have come and mostly gone in the US – an ethicist explains why their messy rollout matters for trust in public health
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Decades of underfunding, blockade have weakened Gaza’s health system – the siege has pushed it into abject crisis
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The roots of the North American opioid crisis, and 3 key strategies for stopping it
Approaching the opioid crisis from a public health perspective includes massively increasing access to care and treatment for patients experiencing