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Prenatal care

Volunteer medical students are trying to fill the health care gap for migrants in Chicago

Fekry Abaza Nov 2, 2023 0

CHICAGO -- Using sidewalks as exam rooms and heavy red duffle bags as medical supply closets, volunteer medics spend their Saturdays caring for the growing number of migrants arriving in Chicago without a place to live.Mostly students in…
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HEALTH

The US infant mortality rate rose last year. The CDC says it’s the largest increase in two…

Fekry Abaza Nov 1, 2023 0

NEW YORK -- The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year — the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.White and Native American infants, infant boys and babies born at 37 weeks or…
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