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		<title>The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After Being Fired by DOGE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Lottie Joiner When Trump cut DEI programs and enabled DOGE to gut the federal workforce, hundreds of thousands of Black women lost their jobs. The cuts dismantled a job pipeline for Washington DC’s Black community and gutted the well-being of the women who hold up that community. Part 1 of a three-part series, FIRED: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>GLP-1s and Black Women: What You Need to Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many Black women face substantial barriers to accessing and understanding the drugs. Yet, sorting through the noise surrounding GLP-1s may offer tremendous advantages for their health. Learn about costs, risks, and the latest on keeping the weight off. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Is Gynecology Still Using a Civil War-Era Tool?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new medical device is part of a broader effort to make gynecological care less painful — and to take women’s pain more seriously]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s Food Quality, Not Processing, That Matters</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fierce]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Sheree Crute Reports on the ill effects of ultra-processed foods have been everywhere in recent months. The idea is that many of the foods we favor contribute to heart disease, obesity, depression and more.  Yet, trying to purge our daily diets of every ultra-processed food is not just inconvenient, it is nearly impossible. New [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Knee Pain? Ragged Cartilage? Research Suggests Surgery’s Not the Best Answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Surgery for knee pain provides little or no benefit, a new study says. It could actually accelerate osteoarthritis or lead to re-operation and even knee replacement.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>5 Things You Need to Know to Protect Your Health From Wildfire Smoke</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[No matter where you are, breathing particles from wildfires can harm your health. The smaller the particles, the deeper they can get into your lungs and body.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Climate Change Gets Under Your Skin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A warming world is putting pressure on every system in your body. Heat waves, wildfire smoke, infectious diseases, and other health threats amplified by climate change are jeopardizing decades of public health gains. As temperatures rise, experts warn that everyone is at risk. By Zoya Teirstein, Grist Doctors agree: Climate change is a hazard to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The BWHS at 30: A Gift to Black Women’s Health</title>
		<link>https://fierceforblackwomen.com/2026/06/03/the-bwhs-study-at-30-a-gift-to-black-womens-health/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fierce]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Wellness]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Sheree Crute In 1995, a group of researchers came together to create a project that would forever change what we know about Black women’s health and wellbeing. Dr. Lynn Rosenberg, Dr. Julie R. Palmer and Dr. Lucile L. Adams-Campbell started the Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS) at Boston University, spearheading work that continues to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This Documentary Changed How I View My Beauty Routine</title>
		<link>https://fierceforblackwomen.com/2026/05/27/this-documentary-changed-how-i-view-my-beauty-routine/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fierce]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 12:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Almeta E. Cooper I sat down recently to watch the new Netflix documentary, “The Plastic Detox” which explores how purging plastic from daily life might affect fertility outcomes among couples trying to conceive. I didn’t think the film would apply to me – I’m past my baby-making years – but nonetheless, it alerted me [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Drinking Water Threatened in Black Communities by Rollbacks on ‘Forever Chemicals’</title>
		<link>https://fierceforblackwomen.com/2026/05/20/drinking-water-threatened-in-black-communities-by-rollbacks-on-forever-chemicals/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yanick Rice Lamb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 13:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Drinking water is being compromised by the government’s latest plan to roll back or delay standards to protect it from “forever chemicals.” U.S. EPA  Administrator Lee Zeldin and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced two proposals this week on regulations related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, which are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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