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		<title>Athletes and Coaches Like Dawn Staley Bring Historic Feats to Final Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This will be the sixth straight Final Four for the South Carolina program under Coach Dawn Staley.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Women&#8217;s History Month: The Power and Grace of Misty Copeland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Morgan Stephens Misty Copeland made history by becoming the first Black principal dancer in the 75-year history of the American Ballet Theatre in 2015. Unlike other young ballerinas, Copeland did not begin to study ballet until the age of 13 and had to overcome her family’s struggle with poverty — making her path to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Women&#8217;s History Month: Vivian Pinn Legendary Champion of Women’s Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Sheree Crute As the inaugural Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1991, Vivian Pinn, MD, led the implementation of the NIH Revitalization Act of 1993. The new law established the requirement that all NIH-supported research include women and minorities and specifically examine variables [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Medicaid&#8217;s New Approach to Sickle Cell Coverage May Expand Access to New Treatments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Phil Galewitz Serenity Cole enjoyed Christmas last month relaxing with her family near her St. Louis home, making crafts and visiting friends. It was a contrast to how Cole, 18, spent part of the 2024 holiday season. She was in the hospital — a frequent occurrence with sickle cell disease, a genetic condition that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Doctors With Troubled Pasts Perform Cosmetic Surgeries Tied to Crippling Pain and Injury</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many patients are enduring emotional and physical scars after visiting cosmetic surgery firms that hire surgeons with a history of malpractice and misconduct.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NIH Launches Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce Stillbirth Rate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The National Institutes of Health has launched a five-year, $37 million consortium to reduce the country's "unacceptably high" stillbirth rate.
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		<title>EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 03:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many polluters no longer have to report greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide and methane, reducing corporate accountability for health risks and climate change.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers Say</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Workers at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants say the Abbott Laboratories facility is engaging in unsanitary practices similar to those that led it to temporarily shut down just three years ago, sparking a nationwide formula shortage.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Health News: Baby Eye Development, Diabetes &#038; Alzheimer&#8217;s, COVID&#8217;s Autoimmune Link</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Catch up on the latest health news on protecting your baby’s eyesight from pregnancy to preschool; a possible  connection between diabetes and early Alzheimer’s disease; and why COVID-19 may be linked to higher risk of autoimmune disorders, like rheumatoid arthritis.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 17:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The number of confirmed cases of measles rose to 483 this year over 2024. An unvaccinated child died of measles in Texas, the first such death in the U.S. since 2015. About 20% of unvaccinated people who get measles wind up in the hospital. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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