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View Online  The United States is experiencing a growing OB-GYN shortage. Here's why. © AP Photo/Teresa Crawford By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech The United States is projected to experience a shortage of 5,000 OB-GYNs by 2030. This is expected to cause already overworked doctors to further struggle to meet demand and continue widening maternal and infant health disparities. An aging workforce, an aging population, high rates of burnout and abortion restrictions are all contributing to the shortage. Read the full story here Unhoused residents build home on side of Southern California freeway © KTLA By Josh DuBose Some 46,000 people in Los Angeles are experiencing homelessness. Dozens are living along the Arroyo Seco next to the 110 Freeway near Highland Park. Those living there have constructed a number of different makeshift structures. Read the full story here Robotaxi Cruise vehicles are making a return — but they won't be autonomous © AP Photo/Terry Chea By Aaron Tolentino After a monthslong hiatus from operations, Cruise vehicles will return to America's streets. The first city to see the robotaxi vehicles back on its roadways will be Phoenix, the company announced Tuesday in a news release. The cars will have human drivers — a move that is reportedly intended to help Cruise create maps and gather road information to improve safety for when autonomous vehicles do return. Read the full story here Huge Saharan dust blob cooling the eastern Atlantic © WFLA By Jeff Berardelli A huge plume of Saharan dust is now visible on satellite loops coming off of Africa into the eastern Tropical Atlantic Ocean. This, combined with stronger than normal easterly winds of the Saharan Desert, is helping cool part of the far Eastern Atlantic, where the seeds for some hurricanes originate. Note, the fact that surface temperatures can cool so quickly also means they can warm just as quickly when a favorable weather pattern takes shape, so the effect may be fleeting. Read the full story here Feature of the Week: Study finds deadly bacteria with 'thirst for human blood' © Courtesy Ted S. Warren, Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine By Michaela Bourgeois Researchers found that certain bacteria are attracted to the liquid part of blood, which has nutrients they can use as food, in a phenomenon they called "bacterial vampirism." According to the researchers, this study could lead to innovations in medicine to help treat people with bloodstream infections. During the study, researchers found the bacteria seemed especially drawn to serine, an amino acid found in human blood that is also a common ingredient in protein drinks. Read the full story here Sign up for Changing America email Manage Subscriptions | Sign Up for Other Newsletters | Unsubscribe    Copyright © 1998 - 2024 Nexstar Media Inc. | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use   To ensure you receive these emails in the future, please add thehill@email.thehill.com to your address book, contacts or safe senders list.

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