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Mashup Score: 1Families with trans kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for health care - 10 month(s) ago
At least 20 states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, though several are embroiled in legal challenges.
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Mashup Score: 5As malaria cases tick up in Florida, a doctor treating the patients describes their symptoms - 10 month(s) ago
Two more locally acquired malaria infections have been reported in Florida, bringing the state’s total to six.
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Mashup Score: 5
A body mass index in the range considered overweight is not linked to a higher mortality risk for many people — more evidence that BMI alone is not a reliable indicator of health.
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Mashup Score: 0In NYC, companies will have to prove their AI hiring software isn't sexist or racist - 10 month(s) ago
AI-infused hiring programs have drawn scrutiny, most notably over whether they end up exhibiting biases based on the data they’re trained on.
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Mashup Score: 4Depression after a brain injury is a distinct condition, study finds. That could change how it's treated. - 10 month(s) ago
The findings have led researchers to propose a new name for the condition: TBI affective disorder.
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Mashup Score: 2In this beach town, sometimes the first cop on the scene is a drone - 10 month(s) ago
When someone calls 911 in Santa Monica, Calif., a drone can respond in as little as 30 seconds and start collecting information before officers arrive.
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Mashup Score: 0Some patients in fungal meningitis outbreak have surprising complications, doctors say - 10 month(s) ago
Dozens have been infected and 7 have died from the fungal meningitis outbreak associated with two surgery clinics in Mexico.
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Mashup Score: 0A New York surgeon's lawsuit highlights gender discrimination in medical profession - 10 month(s) ago
“It’s time for a change,” said Dr. Deborah Keller, whose attorneys accuse her former institution of tolerating a “toxic culture of gender discrimination.”
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Mashup Score: 6Many young women and girls have low levels of this essential mineral. Why symptoms are often missed. - 10 month(s) ago
Doctors don’t typically screen for it, but almost 40% of teenage girls and young women had low levels of the important mineral needed to make red blood cells, new research shows.
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Mashup Score: 4U.S. malaria patient says the disease was initially misdiagnosed - 10 month(s) ago
The CDC recently announced it had identified five cases of locally transmitted malaria in the United States, the first such cases in 20 years.
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