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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>Understanding the Sudden Rise of Type 2 Diabetes in Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Diabetes was long known as a disease of adulthood. Now, the metabolic disorder is spiking in children and teens, with worrisome consequences.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ty, who has been diagnosed with autism, picked out a purple bunny from hundreds of other plushies in his room. While his mom wasn’t looking, the 13-year-old snuck it into his backpack to show to his friends. Things went downhill once he arrived at school.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Scared Boy&#8217;s Mother Is Suing Children&#8217;s Services Over Dozens of Fake Searches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 13:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An anonymous caller repeatedly makes false reports against a mother who hasn't done anything wrong, and officials keep falling for it.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Striking Gap Between Deaths of Black and White Babies Plagues the South</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 22:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the South, infant mortality is by far the highest in the country, with Mississippi's rate of 8.12 deaths per 1,000 live births ranking worst.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 08:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many pregnant people say doctors and nurses do not listen to them and their concerns are often dismissed; pregnant Black people face an even higher burden.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gabrielle Union on Making Peace and Loving Life</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gabrielle Union wanted a baby so badly that she was willing to risk broken bones while enduring pregnancy and "the change" ahead of schedule. Plus, she had multiple miscarriages. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>7 Back-to-School Tips Doctors Want You to Know About COVID-19</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 20:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Doctors offer parents back-to-school advice for students who are taking in-person classes and participating in extracurricular activities during the pandemic.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Thousands March for Voting Rights and Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2021 20:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Voting rights lured thousands to a march on Washington. Tenicka Shannon and her family also came to highlight the police shooting of her son, Fred Cox Jr.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saving Our Girls</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Black girls are being subjected to disproportionately high disciplinary rates and other threats to their self-esteem, their physical well-being and their future. “We are in a battle for the souls of Black girls,” one expert warns.]]></description>
		
		
		
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