Greenlandic women claim victory in legal fight with Denmark over forced IUD scandal – compensation due to thousands of women and girls fitted with coils without their knowledge or consent
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Parliament of the Faroe Islands voted on Thursday to legalise abortion until the end of the 12th week of pregnancy, overturning a decades-old law that prohibited abortions in most cases
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British Columbia Premier David Eby announces new Prince George, Surrey involuntary care facilities
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In a concerted effort to improve previously poor cancer survival rates, Denmark's success story has caught the attention of UK policymakers
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US health insurance premiums poised to spike over drug costs, tariff threats
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Denmark's PM Mette Frederiksen has issued a long-awaited apology to the Greenlandic women and their families affected by what she called "systematic discrimination" during a contraceptive campaign
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The End Kidney Deaths Act
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The obvious reason the US should not vaccinate like Denmark – it isn't Denmark
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American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) suing Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy
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Calgary brings fluoride back to its drinking water
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The plan to vaccinate all Americans, despite Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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US Food and Drug Administration to limit covid shot approval to elderly, those with medical conditions
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Diseases are spreading. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention isn't warning the public like it was months ago.
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Second measles death reported in Texas
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Second child dies in US measles outbreak as cases continue to rise
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Eastern District of Texas strikes down Food and Drug Administration’s final rule regulating laboratory developed tests
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Miami-Dade County commissioners vote in favor of removing fluoride from water systems
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From Tuberculosis to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of US public health
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Texas measles outbreak is call to action for all of us. MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease.
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National Institutes of Health ordered by US President Trump admin to enact 'immediate and indefinite' travel suspension
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Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
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It's time to break up Big Medicine in the US
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Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield reverses US policy that would have limited anesthesia periods
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A bird flu pandemic would be one of the most foreseeable catastrophes in history
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Declaration of Helsinki turns sixty – how this foundational document of medical ethics has stood the test of time
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Domestic abuse experts to be embedded in emergency response control rooms in England and Wales
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Swedish government says excessive screen time is causing a severe health crisis for youth – new legislation in the works to require schools to ban access to digital devices
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IVF alone can’t save us from a looming fertility crisis
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Texas abortion ban linked to 13% increase in infant and newborn deaths
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The US surgeon general wants tobacco-like warning labels on social media
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HHS strengthens privacy of US reproductive health care data
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US Food and Drug Administration issues report claiming marijuana has legitimate medical uses - proposes rescheduling
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The problem with California Prop 1
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A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 70s
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Compensating compassion | Too few people donate their organs, dead or alive. How can we make it easier to donate, but avoid the abuses that some fear from cash payments?
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Aripiprazole (Abilify and generic brands): risk of pathological gambling
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You can’t even pay people to have more kids
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It's one of the world's toughest anti-smoking laws. The Māori see a major flaw.
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Denmark is to restrict the sale of alcohol to under-eighteens and increase the price of suckable nicotine sachets, as their growing popularity is worrying health authorities
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Why the US never saves money on health care
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Dozens of Greenlandic women who say they were fitted with the contraceptive coil without their consent or knowledge are planning to sue the Danish state
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Scottish officials approve UK’s first drug consumption room intended for safer use of illegal drugs
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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation
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There's hope for the US opioid crisis — but politics stands in the way
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Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears
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This Obamacare disaster had a surprising turnaround
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Oregon launches legal psilocybin access amid high demand and hopes for improved mental health care
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Danish government has apologized to thousands of people with disabilities who were abused in state-run facilities
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Thousands donate to save Florida abortion clinic amid crippling state fines
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A single reform that could save 100,000 lives across the USA immediately
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