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With the Coronavirus Keeping Millions at Home, Uber Is Giving Free Rides to Help Survivors of Domestic Violence Flee to Safety

During a worldwide pandemic, the safest place to be is home. But for people enduring domestic violence, home is never safe. The coronavirus pandemic—and the stay-at-home orders, social distancing measures, and quarantining that have been instituted in an attempt to keep the disease at bay—have the unintended side effect of trapping domestic violence survivors with…

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Keeping My Hair Through Chemo Saved My Life

I’ve had long hair for most of my life. Through high school and college and motherhood and laugh lines, it has been a constant. For as long as I can remember, my hair has been tied in a long ponytail or cascading far below my shoulders, a security blanket I can drape close to my…

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Weight Stigma Is the Deadly Problem Keeping Patients from Getting the Care They Need

Ellen Maud Bennett, 64, a Canadian costume designer with a penchant for fresh lobster, peonies, and the “perfect shrimp-wonton soup,” spent years feeling unwell. But when she sought medical intervention, no one offered suggestions beyond weight loss treatments. When her cancer was finally discovered, she had only days to live. “Ellen’s dying wish was that…

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