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Young girl is sitting and taking vaccine shot to her shoulder, with her mother who is encouraging her, and doctor who is giving her vaccine. (Getty Images)

The gender vaccine gap: More women than men are getting COVID shots

Laura Ungar
Child with face mask back at school after covid-19 quarantine and lockdown (Getty Images)

Schools walk the tightrope between ideal safety and the reality of COVID

Laura Ungar, Samantha Young
Telemedicine doctor and patient (Getty Images)

Thousands of doctors’ offices buckle under financial stress of COVID

Laura Ungar
Doctors treat a homeless person suffering from an ear infection on July 25, 2019 in Caracas, Venezuela. Panabus is a network of assistance for homeless people, which seeks to enhance the dignity of those who care for, offering through mobile units the basic services of: personal hygiene, primary medical care and community kitchen. (Carolina Cabral/Getty Images)

Hollowed-out public health system faces more cuts amid coronavirus crisis

Lauren Weber, Laura Ungar, Michelle R. Smith
Blocks of seized cocaine are presented to the press at a police base in Lima, Peru, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia) (AP)

Not yesterday’s cocaine: Death toll rising from tainted drug

Laura Ungar
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Back to school 2019: Backpack, lunchbox and a drug test

Laura Ungar
In this Friday, March 17, 2017 photo a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market in Topsham, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

Starving seniors: How America fails to feed its aging

Laura Ungar, Trudy Lieberman