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Topic: Health Inequality

Patient man receiving IV drip in hospital (Getty Images/Zinkevych)

Coach's death due to chemo drug shortage

Rae Hodge
anti-diabetic medication "Ozempic" (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

The cost of the Ozempic craze

Nicole Karlis
A pregnant woman receiving an ultrasound (Getty Images/Antenna)

Why is the doctor ignoring me?

Duaa Eldeib - ProPublica
3D rendered image, enhanced scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of cancer cells. (Getty Images/koto_feja)

Rural struggle for cancer medicine

Debby Waldman - KFF Health News
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Dr. Julie Butler, who passed away in April 2020 of complications due to COVID-19. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Sheila Butler)

My sister died of COVID-19 — and racism

Sheila Butler
Tents near the MSC South homeless shelter, where at least 70 people have now tested positive for COVID-19 | Demonstrators march against the war in Vietnam

When racial fault lines re-emerge

Emily L. Quint Freeman
Male nurse doing routine checkup of senior patient in hospital room (Getty Images/Ridofranz)

Growing health gap between rich, poor

Nicole Karlis
Grumpy hungover man with coffee (Getty Images)

The "hangover gap" class war

Nicole Karlis
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Dying while black

Yolonda Wilson - The Conversation
(Getty Images/Mario Tama)

South is the least healthy region in US

Jay Maddock - The Conversation
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Food stamps and health

Courtney Perkes - KFF Health News
(Getty/sturti)

Why natives face health inequalities

Annie Belcourt - The Conversation
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Time running out on kids' health program

Simon Haeder - The Conversation
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-118999p1.html'>Obak</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Shervin Assari - The Conversation
Protestors walk through smoke Tuesday, April 28, 2015, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (AP)

Baltimore's history of death

Adam Gaffney
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