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Jen Christensen

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Writer for http://CNN.com & Producer for CNN (Health, Climate, Social Justice, & Investigative). National VP of Broadcast NLGJA.πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ she/her, Bennington, Butler grad

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Women face a much higher risk of homicide, especially from guns, during pregnancy | CNN On April 9, 2020, after Shirley Scarborough called the prayer line like she did every morning, when she went to work she got a call from the police department in Richmond, Virginia. In a meeting, they...

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Canada loses its measles elimination status amid large outbreak | CNN Canada has lost its measles elimination status amid a large, ongoing outbreak of the virus, Public Health Agency of Canada said Monday.

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Hidden genetic damage is part of CTE, too, study finds | CNN The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced repeated blows to the head while playing contact sports and there’s now eviden...

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Pig kidney removed from New Hampshire man after a world-record 271 days | CNN A man who lived with a genetically modified pig kidney for a record 271 days had the organ removed and will return to dialysis.

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After cuts to research funding, Trump pledges millions for pediatric cancer initiative involving AI | CNN President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that the White House says will use artificial intelligence to transform the way scientists fight childhood cancer.

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Trump administration threatens to pull federal funding from sex ed programs that mention transgender people | CNN A division of the US Department of Health and Human Services told 40 states, five territories and the District of Columbia on Tuesday that they β€œare now on notice”: Some federally funded sex ed progra...

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FDA requires Covid vaccine makers to expand warning about risk of rare heart inflammation | CNN The US Food and Drug Administration will now require Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna to use expanded warning labels with more information about the risk of a rare heart condition af...

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Trump administration releases 400-page review of gender dysphoria treatment for youths but won’t say who wrote it | CNN The US Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released a 400-page review of treatment for gender dysphoria in children but did not disclose who authored or reviewed the report.

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Experimental GLP-1 pill helped people with diabetes lose weight and lower blood sugar, Eli Lilly says | CNN Drugmaker Eli Lilly said Thursday that an experimental pill form of popular GLP-1 medications helped people with type 2 diabetes lose an average of nearly 8% of their body weight after 40 weeks and lo...

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Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research | CNN Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

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CDC websites, datasets taken down as agency complies with Trump executive order | CNN Several US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with...

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Suicide attempts increased among transgender teens when states passed anti-trans laws, study says | CNN People in the United States who identify as transgender or nonbinary make up only a tiny fraction of the population, but they’ve been the targets of an outsized share of negative attention from lawmak...

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Iowa resident dies of rare Lassa fever, officials say | CNN A resident of eastern Iowa who had recently traveled to West Africa died after catching what is believed to be Lassa fever, officials said Monday. The virus, which is in the same viral hemorrhagic fev...

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A man was wheeled into surgery to harvest his organs. Weeks later, he left the hospital alive | CNN Three years ago, Anthony Hoover woke up in a Kentucky hospital to find people shaving his chest, bathing his body in surgical solution and talking about harvesting his organs.

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