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Silent Cry: The Unseen Toll of Infant Loss on Black Families in California

Across the United States, Black parents experience infant loss at rates twice as high as their white counterparts. In ...
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Reporting on youth suicide in Native communities requires a different approach

A health reporter working on a story on Native American youth suicide learns that "just because you are ready to tell a story ...
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I thought Duluth’s lead threat was in the water. The data told a different story.

A data journalist set out to map Duluth's lead water lines, until experts pointed instead to the lead paint in the city's ...
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The Health Divide: This breakthrough obesity drug is creating a big new health disparity

What happens when an expensive drug that works well for a condition affecting millions of people remains out of reach to many ...
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The Health Divide: Here’s who suffers most when thousands opt out of organ donor lists

This past February, Tyrone Dumas marked an important milestone: the first anniversary of receiving a new kidney. Instead of throwing a party, Dumas visited his doctor for a checkup and received a ...
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Mobile Clinics Under Threat: Gaps in Rural Healthcare in California’s Central Valley

For more than 20 years, Adela León, originally from Putla in Oaxaca, Mexico, has worked in agricultural fields across Washington State and California’s Central Valley. “In grapes, peaches, apricots, ...
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The Health Divide: The AI data center boom will harm the health of communities that can least afford it

The rapid expansion of supersize data centers to power AI may not seem like a big story for health journalists. The growing public backlash has focused on the environmental impact: the massive use of ...
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The Health Divide: The explosion of sports betting is fueling a new public health crisis

Every moment in sports has become a wager, and not just on who will win the Super Bowl or how many strikeouts a pitcher will throw. With a quick tap on your phone, you can bet on what color Gatorade ...
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The Gaps in Care: What SoCal Chinese Mothers Reveal About a System Still Learning to Listen

When Fen Chen gave birth to her first child seven years ago, she did what she thought made sense: she chose a large, well-known health network in Los Angeles County. After more than a decade in the ...
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Despite FDA warnings, this ‘natural remedy’ remains popular among S.F. immigrants

When Gloria Caballero, 52, started experiencing knee pain four years ago, her sister in Los Angeles suggested a natural remedy that a coworker had sworn by: a supplement called Artri King. Following ...
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Eviction Notices Cause "Emotional Terror" Say Senior Vietnamese Mobile Home Residents

When 87-year-old Ngoc Tran received a third notice from her mobile home park management in late August ordering her to remove flower pots and replace her rocking chairs in the deck or face “legal ...
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How a trauma-informed approach to domestic violence stories puts survivors first

Before she publishes a story on domestic violence, journalist Sammy Caiola calls sources to review the information she plans on including. Sometimes, survivors ask her to remove facts, since their ...