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Shefali Luthra
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Supreme Court upholds the ACA, including its gender-based health protections
The Supreme Court tossed out a legal challenge that would have dismantled the landmark health reform bill.
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Suicide attempts among teen girls were already high. The pandemic might have made it worse.
Data from the CDC showed teenage girls’ hospitalizations for suspected suicide attempts shot up last year. It’s only one piece of a mental health crisis affecting young people.
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How one of Washington’s top health officials plans to fight pregnancy-related deaths
The 19th spoke with Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the first Black woman to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, about her plans to address racial and gender-based health inequities.
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The 19th Explains: What six-week abortion bans really mean
Similar bans passed by other states have no legal standing, but an upcoming Supreme Court case could change that.
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Supreme Court agrees to hear Mississippi challenge to Roe v. Wade
Justices are likely to rule next summer on whether a ban on abortions after 15 weeks is constitutional.
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Women in health care are at a breaking point — and they’re leaving
In the pandemic, women are abandoning health care jobs, citing burnout and decades of inequities in a system that was never designed to support them.
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Parents are vaccinated, kids can’t be. That complicates the new masks-off guidance.
‘He won’t wear one if I don’t wear one’: Some parents may keep masking and taking precautions until a COVID-19 vaccine is approved for children under the age of 12.
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With COVID vaccinations, CDC finds older women are being left behind
A new analysis showed that older women, who face significant barriers to access, were less likely than older men to have gotten at least one COVID-19 vaccine.
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Biden restores transgender ACA protections, ending Trump era of uncertainty
The change comes as many state legislatures are pushing restrictive anti-trans medical bills.
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'It's really been a disaster': How COVID-19 has endangered gender equity worldwide
The 19th spoke with Natalia Kanem, who heads the United Nations Population Fund, about the pandemic's impacts on reproductive health access and the broader implications if the coronavirus surge is not stopped.