Pregnancy-related deaths were already rising in the US. Then COVID arrived and made things worse.
Pregnancy-related deaths jumped during the pandemic, with Black women suffering the highest mortality rates. BMC obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Tejumola Adegoke, joins The Boston Globe to weigh in on racial inequities in maternal mortality.
Expanded Child Tax Credit ‘has to be in’ final version of Build Back Better Act, Sen. Ed Markey says
Dr. Lucy Marcil, founder of StreetCred and pediatrician at BMC joins Senator Markey, Allison Bovell-Ammon of Children's HealthWatch, and Julio Shum, a patient navigator in pediatrics at BMC as they advocate for the extension of the Child Tax Credit at a press conference hosted at Boston Medical Center.
Your unvaccinated child is going back to school. What type of mask should they wear?
BMC's associate hospital epidemiologist, Dr. Cassandra Pierre shares insight into the best masks that children can wear to stay protected from COVID-19, especially while they remain ineligible to receive a vaccine, as they head back to school this year.
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