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Weekly Health Digest: 23andMe Bankruptcy, NIH Cuts, Pregnancy Physiology, Fluoridation Ban

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: Fear of privacy violations in wake of 23andMe bankruptcy and sale, another round of NIH lay-offs with more coming, how the body experiences pregnancy and recovery from childbirth, and Utah's water fluoridation ban.

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Students fight to improve maternal mortality

March 14, 2025
Joy Lee
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News Team member Joy Lee delves into the importance of the Emory Decatur Labor Support Volunteer program and the local fight against Georgia's high maternal mortality.

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Weekly Health Digest: NIH’s Future, Winter Viruses, Nursing Home Deficits, Rural Maternity Care

December 10, 2024
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New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: NIH threatened by new administration, respiratory illnesses expected to spike this winter, COVID vaccination among nursing home residents, rural access to labor and delivery care

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Weekly Health Digest: Teen Social Media, Overdose Deaths, FluMist, Microplastics, and Pregnancy Brain

September 23, 2024
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New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: The possible efficacy of social media "teen accounts," unexplained declines in overdose deaths, at-home nasal flu vaccine, microplastics in nasal tissue, and the relationship between pregnancy, hormones, and the brain.

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Acetaminophen Risks in Pregnancy

April 26, 2024
Manju Karthikeyan
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News Team member Manju Karthikeyan examines a recent study associating women's acetaminophen use in pregnancy with higher risks of neurodevelopmental disorders in their children, and asks how the field of teratology has evolved since the 1961 thalidomide tragedy.

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Weekly Health Digest: Intense Walking, Egg Freezing, and Natural Wine

September 26, 2022
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Weekly Health Digest from the @EmoryCSHH News team: the health benefits of intense walking, the reality of freezing your eggs, and the “natural” wine phenomena

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Modern Fertility: The Science of Surrogacy

March 22, 2022
Gabrielle Stearns
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Surrogacy is an increasingly common method of achieving a pregnancy, but it poses scientific challenges and emotional demands.

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Telling Health’s Story | Why We Need the Expansion of Paid Maternity Leave Policies

In HLTH 385W: Health Writing and Narratives, created by Maryn McKenna, CSHH student Defne Levine writes an op-ed piece on the need for expansion of paid maternity leave policies.

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Commercial Surrogacy in India: A Bioethical Debate

October 13, 2021
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By News Team member Commercial surrogacy in India is a controversial topic of debate in bioethics. India’s attempts to regulate and control commercial surrogacy struggles to find a balance between two conflicting interests: preventing the exploitation of surrogates and protecting…

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Babies and Antibodies: How the COVID-19 Vaccine Affects Fetuses

September 23, 2021
Dynasti Degouville
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By: Dynasti deGouville On December 11, 2020, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine became the first of its kind available under the FDA’S emergency use authorization for those 16 years and older. Since then, 180 million Americans have gotten one or both…

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