Worth reading: Cancer, confidentiality, and neglected diseases [The Pump Handle]

A few of the recent pieces I’ve liked:

Laura Ungar in USA TODAY: Found too late: Cancer preys on rural Americans

Priya Batra on the Huffington Post blog: Confidentiality Is Key: To Reduce Teen Pregnancy, the U.S. Must Ban Parental Notification Laws for Contraception

Henry Wismayer at Vox: I got typhoid. Then dengue fever. Here’s what it taught me about my love of travel.

Heather Rogers at The Intercept: Erasing Mossville: How Pollution Killed a Louisiana Town

Jamie Smith Hopkins at the Center for Public Integrity: Unequal Risk: Disease victims often shut out of workers’ comp system

Amber Scorah at the New York Times’ Motherlode:  A Baby Dies at Day Care, and a Mother Asks Why She Had to Leave Him So Soon

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A few of the recent pieces I’ve liked:

Laura Ungar in USA TODAY: Found too late: Cancer preys on rural Americans

Priya Batra on the Huffington Post blog: Confidentiality Is Key: To Reduce Teen Pregnancy, the U.S. Must Ban Parental Notification Laws for Contraception

Henry Wismayer at Vox: I got typhoid. Then dengue fever. Here’s what it taught me about my love of travel.

Heather Rogers at The Intercept: Erasing Mossville: How Pollution Killed a Louisiana Town

Jamie Smith Hopkins at the Center for Public Integrity: Unequal Risk: Disease victims often shut out of workers’ comp system

Amber Scorah at the New York Times’ Motherlode:  A Baby Dies at Day Care, and a Mother Asks Why She Had to Leave Him So Soon

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