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IUDs and Pain Neglect

Exploring Health

Photo by the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition on Unsplash Redressing long-term medical neglect In 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made a long overdue recommendation for IUD insertions.

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Honoring the 2025 AMCHP Annual Award Recipients

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

Julie has been a member of AMCHP since 2014. After graduating in 2013, she gained valuable experience working at a local public health office before joining the Idaho Department of Health and Welfares Division of Public Health in 2018. Together, KBJS is transforming the future of reproductive health in Kansas.

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House Republicans pass 'born-alive' abortion bill

The Hill

The bill would have created a new standard of care for physicians providing reproductive health care that is not based in medicine, fact, or science. Republicans framed the motion's failure as Democrats voting against a bill combating infanticide. said after the motion failed.

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New report: Shortfall of big city health detectives poses serious threat to public health response

Big Cities Health Coalition

In particular, I heard that organizations like Doctors Without Borders had epidemiologists use data during the Ebola outbreak in 2014 to guide their interventions. The paucity of injury and violence prevention epidemiologists is especially striking, as unintentional injury is the third leading cause of death in the United States.

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CDC Firings Undermine Public Health Work Far Beyond Washington

KFF Health News

The CDC in 2015 started the two-year training fellowship to improve lab safety and quality following a series of failures, including in 2014 when CDC staff in Atlanta were potentially exposed to anthrax. The program each year recruits a small number of doctorate-level scientists; several work in state or local health departments.

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CDC firings undermine public health work far beyond Washington

HEALTHBEAT

The CDC in 2015 started the two-year training fellowship to improve lab safety and quality following a series of failures, including in 2014 when CDC staff in Atlanta were potentially exposed to anthrax. The program each year recruits a small number of doctorate-level scientists; several work in state or local health departments.

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The Growing Inequality in Life Expectancy Among Americans

KFF Health News

The same has been true since 2014 for Black people in low-income counties in the southeastern U.S. “Some groups in the United States are facing a health crisis,” Bollyky said, “and we need to respond to that because it’s worsening.” . “It should not be that way for a country as rich as the U.S.”