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Air Conditioning and Public Health

Massachusetts residents are used to cold winters. But their summer this year has been sweltering. Record-high temperatures have health experts concerned over a lack of air conditioning in many low-income communities. A push to make cool air a public health priority -- and a debate over who should provide it.see more
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Massachusetts residents are used to cold winters. But their summer this year has been sweltering. Record-high temperatures have health experts concerned over a lack of air conditioning in many low-income communities. A push to make cool air a public health priority -- and a debate over who should provide it.see more
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Judge Says Catholic Hospital Can Deny Tubal Ligation

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A Catholic hospital in Redding can refuse to perform a common birth control procedure, a San Francisco judge said Thursday. Rebecca Chamorro sued Mercy Medical Center for sex discrimination after the hospital withheld the procedure, known as tubal ligation, on religious grounds. We discuss the implications of the ruling.

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Lisa Aliferis, Editor, KQED's State of Health blog

Elizabeth Gill, senior staff attorney, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

Lori Dangberg, Vice President, Alliance of Catholic and Catholic-Associated Health Care

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