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Some migrant children in federal custody have tested positive for Covid-19, drawing calls for the government to do more to protect them. It's a problem that has reopened the long legal battle over the Flores settlement, a consent decree that set the rules on the health and rights of children in custody.
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Law professor and bestselling author Elyn Saks highlights many problematic societal practices towards mental illness, an area she has experienced both as a scholar and patient, as per her revealing memoir The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness. She discusses schizophrenia, mental health law, false impressions, self awareness, and medications.
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What went wrong for the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab? This film investigates how safety scares and vaccine nationalism threatened to derail the 'workhorse vaccine for the world'. Combining compelling insider interviews with archive footage and original journalism, this film investigates how early missteps with a Covid-19 vaccine by the pharma company Oxford-AstraZeneca was blown up by politicians across the US and Europe. It navigates through the twists...
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This feature-length documentary presents an accessible yet in-depth and up-to-date message with a touch of mystery and suspense: Can we, in fact, beat superbugs--antibiotic-resistant bacteria? Superbugs' partnership with COVID-19 bookends the film: When COVID weakens its victims, superbugs often come in for the actual kill. Nevertheless, ingenious solutions to their advance are either in place or emerging. The film moves in and out of a single patient's...
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Using Alabama as a case study in rural health, this NewsHour program discusses a CDC report that shows that maternal deaths nearly doubled over three years, with over 1,200 deaths in 2021. In rural communities, where maternal mortality is almost double urban rates, there is a constant struggle to access lifesaving maternal healthcare. With support from the Pulitzer Center and in collaboration with the Global Health Reporting Center, Stephanie Sy reports...
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When U.S. industry and manufacturing collapsed or went elsewhere, cities like Elgin, IL, and Syracuse, NY, (like many communities in the United States) were left with the task of redefining themselves for a new paradigm. Leading the way to a greener, more sustainable Elgin is a group of high school students. Despite many innovative programs to get Syracuse back on its feet, the city struggles with the larger problem of Lake Onondaga, the most polluted...
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Dr. Jackson believes it is every citizen's right to live in a clean, healthy environment. This isn't the case for many low-income neighborhoods, built near big transportation hubs and struggling industrial cities like Oakland, CA and Detroit, MI. We meet a morbidly obese grandmother struggling to raise seven grandchildren, all of whom have asthma as a result of living near the Port of Oakland. The city of Detroit resembles an abandoned war zone. Yet,...
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