6 Things to Stop Saying to Kids of Different Races and Ethnic Groups

They may be well intentioned, but these phrases can actually be an insult and hurt young minds. Here's what you can say instead.

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Lehman, who has written about the problem and is the chief of breast imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, told The New York Times in March. “I can’t imagine the anxiety of getting the scan and hearing, ‘We found a node that is large. We don’t think it’s cancer but can’t tell.’ Or worse, ‘We think it might be cancer.’” But say you are getting a diagnostic mammogram because of a suspicious lump or other symptoms of breast cancer or you have been treated for breast cancer and need to get regular exams; in those cases, “do not delay,” Swamy said. You should keep your current mammogram appointment as well as your vaccination appointment, and tell your radiologist the date that you received the vaccine. Fertility patients should coordinate the timing of their vaccine with their clinic. 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Women appear to have more side effects after vaccination than men. A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published in February, examined the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines and found that 79% of the side effects reported to the agency came from women, even though only 61% of the vaccines had been administered to women. It could be that women are more likely to report side effects than men, said Dr. Sabra L. Klein, a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Or, she added, women might be experiencing side effects to a greater degree. “We’re not sure which it is,” she said. 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