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Pregnancy and Pot: Healthy Alternative or Bad for Baby?
Is cannabis an organic remedy for morning sickness or danger to an unborn child?
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California Has a Child Care Crisis. How Finding It – and Paying for It – Can Be a Nightmare
Child care providers, many already struggling before COVID, have been hit hard over the past two years. Plummeting demand for child care, increased cleaning and supply costs, virus safety measures and capacity restrictions created a perfect storm of stressors, said providers and experts familiar with the child care field.
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Smog for Kids is Bad. Smog for Grown-Ups Might Be Worse.
Editor’s note: This story was first published by The Orange County Register on December 30, 2021 and written by Claudia Boyd-Barrett. Amparo Miramontes and her husband thought they’d found the perfect place to raise a family when they moved with their baby daughter from Burbank to Fontana in 2010. They bought a spacious, five-bedroom home for […]
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Alameda County Program Counters Health Industry Racism Experienced by Black Expectant Mothers
Black women are far more likely to report experiencing discrimination within the healthcare system than white women. And studies point to racism or unconscious bias in medical care as a key explanation for why Black women and infants fare so poorly compared to their White counterparts.
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