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Earlier this year, the American Academy of Pediatrics released its first new set of guidelines for treating obesity in children in 15 years. Photo licensed under Unsplash.

Physicians and body positivity advocates consider the impacts of new childhood obesity treatment guidelines

Antonia Sousa, Reporter
March 8, 2023

[VIDEO] This nonprofit in Jamaica Plain is pushing to change the healthcare industry through food

Shuang Jing and Elijah Nicholson-Messmer
March 2, 2023
Baby autumn receives treatment at a facility

Hospitality Homes provides host homes and donated apartments to Boston patients

Cassidy McNeeley, Reporter
November 28, 2022
Students at the relaunching of a new vending machine at Boston University organized by Students for Reproductive Freedom got access to various types of sexual health resources. Credits: Melissa Clavijo

Boston campus contraception vending machines promise contraceptive access but pose unexpected challenges, reproductive justice advocates say

Melissa Clavijo , Reporter
October 24, 2022
Thousands of people gathered on Saturday, May 14 at Boston Common to protest the possible overturning of Roe vs. Wade, which will affect safe abortion access in the U.S.

Thousands react to Roe v. Wade leaked draft at Boston Common rally

Jennifer Suryadjaja, Reporter
May 16, 2022
Stacey Borden and her dog standing near a Building Up People Not Prisons sign in an unfinished room at new Beginnings Reentry Services on April 17, 2021.

Incarcerated women need treatment, not punishment. Stacey Borden knows firsthand.

Ysabelle Kempe, Reporter
July 7, 2021
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