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Crisis pregnancy centers often locate near abortion clinics in a bid to draw in unwitting patients. And they provide inaccurate medical information and incomplete care. That can be dangerous. (11/17)

My 2-year-old daughter, Laila, recently came down with the respiratory syncytial virus or RSV, a common and highly contagious virus, and required trips to our local urgent care clinic, our pediatrician’s office and the emergency department – all within the span of five days. (Syra Madad, 11/16)

Despite growing up in two countries — Pakistan (Z.B.) and Cameroon (R.L.) — separated by 7,000 kilometers, we both know what it is like to live and work in communities plagued by polio. As a physician, one of us (Z.B.) has sat beside countless parents as they come to terms with the life-long disability, and sometimes even death, of their child. (Rose Gana Fomban Leke and Zulfiqar Bhutta, 11/17)

With lack of resources, access to quality health care, medical providers and a long history of rightful distrust of the medical community combined with systemic racism, it all adds up to poor health outcomes and premature death for Black people. (Rukiya Curvey-Johnson, 11/16)

Comprehensive sex education, not generally taught in Tennessee, has far-reaching benefits beyond sexual health, including promoting adolescent mental health. (Suzannah Ward, 11/16)

As pediatric emergency medicine doctors, we care for kids who have been shot more now than any other time in history. (Tyler Lennon, Samaa Kemal and Jillian Gorski, 11/16)