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Q&A: Experts Urge Pediatric Advocacy Amid Worsening Climate Hazards

Physician's Weekly

In that study , researchers analyzed data from over one million participants from 0 to 19 years of age after torrential rains, floods, and landslides occurred in 2018. Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood, affecting millions of people worldwide and nearly 4.7 In the US, EWEs cause 60% of power outages.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. Gaunt and feverish, he went to the hospital and learned he had AIDS. “I thought my family was going to disown me,” he said.