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December 17, 2018
The State Where Black Women Are Twice as Likely to Die of Cervical Cancer as White Women
Alabama’s painful racial legacy lives on in health-care inequality.
Michelle Chen
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February 26, 2016
Jacqueline Susann’s Queer Feminism
How does Valley of the Dolls actually hold up as a read 50 years later?
Tim Murphy
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February 23, 2016
A New Study Suggests Even the Toughest Pesticide Regulations Aren’t Nearly Tough Enough
As in most states, regulators in California measure the effect of only one pesticide at a time. But farmers often use several pesticides together—and that’s a big, toxic problem.
Liza Gross
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July 15, 2015
For the Tobacco Industry’s Backlash Against Lung Cancer Science, You’re Welcome
An early Nation investigation was “circulated far and wide throughout the huckster fraternity.”
Richard Kreitner
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October 14, 2014
Brain Cancer Cases Shot Up in This Florida Town—Is a Defense Contractor to Blame?
For years, radioactive waste has seeped into swampland, canals—even drinking water. Now a few families are fighting to hold the polluters accountable.
Sharon Lerner
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August 6, 2014
Does Senator Vitter Really Think Cancer Prevention Groups and Wildlife Nonprofits Are Part of a Nefarious Cabal?
Vitter’s report claims that environmental and public health foundations are responsible for spreading “bogus propaganda.”
Lee Fang
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April 11, 2014
Could Working on Keystone XL Give You Cancer, Asthma?
Two prominent health groups are demanding that the State Department find out.
Zoë Carpenter