Health

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) described the state of healthcare in America as “barbarism,” in an upcoming episode of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) podcast. In a preview of Wednesday’s episode of “Bernie: The Podcast,” Ocasio-Cortez expressed her sadness about the high costs of healthcare and housing and the difficult choices many Americans must make, as she committed…

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Iowa State House Republicans passed a fetal personhood bill Thursday evening, the latest as the national debate on in vitro fertilization (IVF) continues. The bill, H.B. 2575, increases the penalty for the nonconsensual ending of a pregnancy, making it a felony and increasing jail time. Opponents are taking issue because the bill changes the current…

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Unsupervised exposure of babies and young kids to melatonin has risen a lot recently, leading thousands of children to end up in the emergency room. The number of children aged 5 and under who went to the emergency room due to unsupervised melatonin consumption increased by 420 percent from 2009 to 2020, according to new data from the Centers…