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Gender
Abortion rights supporters holding pink and green signs face the white columns of the U.S. Supreme Court Building as they demonstrate against the Dobbs v Women's Health Organization ruling in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2022.

U.S. Abortion Law and Dissenting from the Norm

by Samantha Kiernan, Lillian Posner

The United States is an outlier on abortion access

Governance
Image shows a map of the world color coded according to percent of government spending on health in 2017.

Which Governments Prioritize Health Spending?

by Joseph L. Dieleman, Hayley Stutzman, Angela E. Micah

As COVID-19 causes simultaneous health and economic crises worldwide, it's an opportunity to evaluate health spending

Kidney disease increases are concentrated among farm workers in hot, humid conditions, including sugarcane fields in Central America, similar to this one in Jacarezinho, Brazil on January 1, 2019. Picture is taken at the edge of a field on a sugar plantation on a spectacularly clear day. The earth is brown, the growing canes are green, and the deep blue sky has little fluffy clouds rolling in. REUTERS/Marcelo Texeira
Environment

Climate Change, the Kidney Killer

by Alton Lu

Is chronic kidney disease the canary in the coal mine in terms of feeling the health impacts of climate change?