Also, California drops plan to require COVID vaccines in schools, and Chinese study claims no new variants detected from outbreak there.
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Also this week: Dearth of pandemic data on race, ethnicity ‘beyond bad,' and experts support additional oversight of pathogen research.
Stigma leaves many without the products or knowledge they need to maintain a healthy period, a new reporting project finds.
The challenge: Proving that health tech companies can make a viable business out of reaching low-income people who also face social challenges.
The San Diego Union-Tribune is putting a spotlight on the real cost of child care in California.
Also this week: Latino teens take the lead in vaccine education, and fresh signs the tripledemic is on the wane.
GOP-led House takes aim at COVID origins, U.S. response. Also, public health experts see value in monitoring wastewater to detect new viral threats.
This story was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's National Fellowship.
Generations of corn growing, feedlot runoff and unwitting nitrogen overuse has left a sobering legacy buried in the Nebraska soil.
A form of addiction treatment called SMART Recovery uses cognitive behavioral therapy and positive thinking to help people beat their drug habit.