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Porn sites are not accessible in Texas as companies cite the onerous process and privacy issues associated with setting up age verification.

Our analysis found more frequent detections of unregulated industrial contaminants in public water systems serving higher proportions of Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black residents. These associations persisted even after taking other factors into account (e.g., SES, proximity to pollution sources). Although some of the associations between race, ethnicity, and unregulated contaminants can be explained by disproportionate siting of industrial facilities, our analysis suggests that other factors contribute to disparities in exposures to unregulated drinking water contaminants. Our analysis indicates that drinking water disparities can be overlooked and underestimated when research narrowly focuses on regulated chemicals in drinking water. Elucidating other vulnerability factors and mechanisms by which demographics influence drinking water can promote actions to implement the SDWA more effectively and equitably.

The number of cocaine users in France has nearly doubled to 1.1 million, with employees increasingly using the drug to cope with workplace pressures, a government report revealed on Wednesday.

Every state has a committee of medical and public health experts tasked with investigating deaths that occur during and after pregnancy.

But as data paints a clearer picture of the impact that state policies such as abortion bans and Medicaid expansion can have on maternal health, leaders in some states are rushing to limit their review committee’s work — or halt it altogether.

As the skies of Los Angeles filled with smoke this week from multiple raging wildfires, many residents quickly recognized failures in local and state governments’ ability to protect them from hazardous air pollution. Community members from local COVID-19 advocacy and mutual aid groups stepped in to fill this gap, providing stockpiled respirators and information about the importance of indoor air purification during wildfires.