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2 months ago | 
nbcnews.com | Erika Edwards |Sara G. Miller |Jason Kane
SEMINOLE, Texas — When Aganetha Unger pulled up her large, white van to the emergency measles testing site, several of her eight children were coughing. “We had some sickness in the house, not very bad, but some fever, some cough,” said Unger, who is Mennonite. One child, she said, had a fever of 103 degrees. Her youngest getting tested was a 2-month-old, wrapped tightly in a pink blanket on her mom’s lap. When the EMS team swabbed her nose, she didn’t cry.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
nbcnews.com | Erika Edwards |Jason Kane
The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Two years ago, Starr, 61, of Sacramento, California, was in the hospital for a spike in her blood pressure. She has multiple chronic health problems, including heart failure, and uses an oxygen tank at home. But her request for supplemental oxygen while hospitalized was denied, Starr said, because readings from a pulse oximeter on her finger falsely indicated that she was getting plenty of air on her own.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
nbcnews.com | Jason Kane |Yamiche Alcindor |Fiona Glisson
WASHINGTON — For Wedam Minyila, hospital rooms have always meant blinding pain. “Like someone is jamming a knife in me,” he said. But for a brief moment on a recent December morning, Wedam, 19, who has sickle cell disease, allowed himself to believe what his doctors had been telling him for months: This visit could be the first step to a cure.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Megan Lebowitz |Erika Edwards |Jason Kane |Erin McLaughlin
WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Saturday that a Trump administration would, on its first day, "advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water."Kennedy cited linked fluoride to various illnesses, despite major medical associations supporting water fluoridation, which they say is safe and a benefit to public health.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
msn.com | Megan Lebowitz |Erika Edwards |Jason Kane |Erin McLaughlin
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
democrats.org | Erika Edwards |Zinhle Essamuah |Jason Kane |Kavitha Surana
On Tuesday during the vice presidential debate between Governor Tim Walz and JD Vance, JD Vance tried to spin Trump’s dangerous, anti-reproductive freedom agenda and deny his support for a national abortion ban. He failed miserably. A reminder: in 2022, Vance said he ‘would like abortion to be illegal nationally’ and was ‘sympathetic’ to a national ban to stop women from traveling across states to get necessary reproductive health care.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
texasdemocrats.org | Brigitte Bowen |Erika Edwards |Zinhle Essamuah |Jason Kane
AUSTIN, Texas – Last night during the vice presidential debate between Governor Tim Walz and JD Vance, Walz mentioned Texas’s disturbing spike of infant mortality rates and maternal mortality in Texas after Ted Cruz got Roe v. Wade overturned, letting Texas Republicans pass Senate Bill 8.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
rsn.org | Erika Edwards |Zinhle Essamuah |Jason Kane
Exclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period. The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed following the state’s 2021 ban on abortion care — far outpacing a slower rise in maternal mortality across the nation, a new investigation of federal public health data finds.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Erika Edwards |Zinhle Essamuah |Jason Kane
Sept. 20, 2024, 9:49 PM UTC / Updated Sept. 21, 2024, 12:07 PM UTCThe number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed following the state’s 2021 ban on abortion care — far outpacing a slower rise in maternal mortality across the nation, a new investigation of federal public health data finds.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Erika Edwards |Zinhle Essamuah |Jason Kane
A dramatic rise in pregnant women dying in Texas after abortion banExclusive analysis finds the rate of maternal deaths in Texas increased 56% from 2019 to 2022, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period. The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed following the state’s 2021 ban on …
