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    Our response requires courage, collaboration, and the wisdom to learn from others Health professionals have warned about the impact of the climate emergency on the planet and on human health for decades. But despite these warnings carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise.1 With every year, the extent of climate breakdown worsens. Scientists recently reported that the “Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for humanity,” as six out of nine planetary boundaries have been breached.2 Several climate tipping points relating to melting ice caps, ocean currents, permafrost regions, and deforestation are estimated to be on the brink.3 Scientists continue to call for radical action to reverse the rate of decline, but political commitment is dangerously inadequate. In clinical practice, change often comes only after people have ignored warning signs for years. It can take a catastrophic event to prompt action. The climate emergency is no different. Governments, organisatio

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    Racial disparities in health are among the most disconcerting forms of inequity in the United States. Divergent health outcomes between Americans racialized as White and those racialized as Black, Latinx, and Indigenous do not stem from biological or genetic differences. To the contrary, “race” comes to have concrete consequences through social, economic, and political systems. Yet the political contours of health equity remain especially understudied. This article places the politics of health equity in the foreground through the lens of housing, a critical determinant of health. Drawing on in-depth qualitative evidence rooted in the experiences of tenants who confront health-threatening housing conditions, I examine how people within racially and economically marginalized communities organize to build political power in response to those conditions. By charting how tenants navigate state and local political processes, I demonstrate the possibilities for organized tenants to wield pow

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    DENVER — Socioeconomic status, household composition and housing or transportation were among predictors of low vaccination rates in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, according to a presenter at the Crohn’s and Colitis Congress. “Despite an increased risk for infection, patients with IBD have low vaccination rates,” Jessica Sheehan, MD, a gastroenterology and

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