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        <title><![CDATA[Sophia Vahanvaty]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[As Rural Hospitals Shutter Maternity Wards, Urban Ones Follow]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[High costs, hospital staffing woes and falling birth rates are being blamed for the ongoing disappearance of maternal care units in US cities of all sizes. ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Vahanvaty]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:00:03 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>MADERA, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 13, 2023: Empty infant beds sit gathered in a corner in a quiet maternity ward at rural Madera Community Hospital which closed in January 2023 creating a lack of healthcare services for the blue collar Central Valley agricultural community in Madera, California on Wednesday September 13, 2023. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[FDA Approves Updated Pfizer, Moderna Covid Shots as Cases Rise]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Fiona Rutherford]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:39:24 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Pfizer’s 2024-2025 formula of the Comirnaty brand Covid-19 vaccine covers the KP.2 variant.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Emergent Leads Mpox-Tied Stock Gains as Investors Await Approval]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:03:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Inactive Bird Flu Virus Found in 17% of US Dairy Foods in Study]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Vahanvaty]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 19:28:17 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>One gallon jugs of milk sit on display at a supermarket in Princeton, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations will release its monthly food price index on June 6. The index, a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities, consists of the average of five commodity group price indices including meat, dairy, grains, oil and sugar.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nearly Half of Americans Face Surprise Medical Bills. Here’s What to Do About It]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Vahanvaty]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:00:14 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Huh?</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Here’s Where VP Candidate Tim Walz Stands on Health]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Vahanvaty]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 10:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, from left, Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, and Wes Moore, governor of Maryland, exit the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Several leading Democratic governors said they were firmly behind President Joe Biden after a meeting at the White House following last week’s disastrous debate performance.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Covid Surge Limits CVS’s At-Home Test Supply in Some Cities]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2024 21:58:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Medical Bills Catch Almost Half of Insured US Adults by Surprise]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Vahanvaty]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Wildfire Smoke Could Cause Dementia]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A new study underscores the long-term risk of exposure to wild fires]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:00:36 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Park Fire burns close to a power line near Chico, California, US, on Saturday, July 27, 2024. Arson investigators in California arrested a man on suspicion of starting the states largest wildfire this year a conflagration that has prompted evacuations and threatened the states power grid.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Centene Shares Jump After Executives Reassure on Medicaid Costs]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:02:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cities Consider Legal Options as Extreme Heat Tied to Deaths]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Vahanvaty]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Maternal Deaths Were Highest in States That Restrict Abortion]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Vahanvaty]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 04:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Covid’s Summer Wave Returns But Hospitalizations Remain Low]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Vahanvaty]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:06:04 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[US Ruling Unlikely to Fix Uncertainty in Emergency Abortions]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Fiona Rutherford]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:25:36 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 26: Anti-abortion demonstrators gather in front of the Supreme Court on June 26, 2024 in Washington, DC. A ruling is expected this week in the case of Moyle v. United States, which will determine if hospitals in states with abortion bans will be required by law to provide abortion procedures in emergency situations. (Photo by Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Plan B Use Plunges in US States That Enacted Abortion Bans]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Vahanvaty]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Novo Weight-Loss Drug Saxenda Poses Risk to Bone Health, Study Finds]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Vahanvaty]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Altria’s Menthol E-Cigs Get FDA Nod as Menthol Debate Continues]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Vahanvaty]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2024 17:11:10 GMT</pubDate>
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