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Move over Paleo diet, it's Dinosaur Time, a TikTok trend all about devouring veggies

On social media, people are gobbling up greens like they are giant primeval beasts. Nutritionists say it's not a bad way to get more fiber and micronutrients in.

April 14, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Boden
Catherine Mwaloe, 16, who contracted HIV from her mother at birth, has one month's supply of HIV medicine left. She worries that government clinics will charge money for the medications, which were previously free.

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  • Global Health

Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out

Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.

April 14, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel,
  • Rebecca Davis,
  • and 1 more
Medicaid pays for nursing home care and for some in-home and community based care, such as aides like Lidia Vilorio, who gives her patient Martina Negron her medicine and a snack in her home on May 5, 2021, in Haverstraw, N.Y.  Proposed cuts to Medicaid could hit such home-based services first, making life harder for family caregivers.

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  • Health

How cutting Medicaid would affect long-term care and family caregivers

The federal program is the biggest source of money for long-term care for the elderly and disabled. Republican proposals to cut its budget could jeopardize supports family and caregivers rely on.

April 14, 2025
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By:
  • Kat McGowan
Logan, 17 and a junior at Newton South High School, stands in his room in Newton, Mass. Logan was part of a program called Charting My Path, which helps students with disabilities prepare for life after high school. The Trump administration cancelled the program in February. <br>

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  • Education

DOGE abruptly cut a program for teens with disabilities. This student is 'devastated'

The program, Charting My Path for Future Success, aimed to help teens with disabilities transition from high school to the real world. It abruptly ended when DOGE terminated its federal contract.

April 14, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
A September 29 fire at BioLab in Conyers creates a chemical plume

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  • Environment

Manufacturing Danger: The BioLab Story - The Business

At a national trade show for pool and spa chemicals, we meet industry insiders who help us understand how the business works—and how safety often takes a back seat to sales. This episode traces the path from corporate booths to chemical fires, revealing what’s at stake if profit outweighs precaution.

April 14, 2025
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By:
  • Pamela Kirkland

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  • Health

Here's how to retrain your brain to crave movement more than screen time

If you're finding yourself glued to your phone these days, scrolling the news, here's how to change your habits and get moving instead.

April 13, 2025
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By:
  • Diana Hill and
  • Katy Bowman
Les Reines du Foot (FRA) vs Vuka Soweto (SA)

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  • Global Health

Soccer-loving 'grannies' go for the GOOOOAAAALLLL in their version of the World Cup

The players are women over 50. The oldest this year is 87. They took the field in South Africa for their "World Cup." One team was crowned the winner but all the players consider themselves champions.

April 13, 2025
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  • Ryan Lenora Brown and
  • Photos by Samantha Reinders
Mental health workers protest outside the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on a strip of Sunset Blvd. They are heading into their sixth month of striking over wages, benefits and time in between patients.

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  • Health

Mental health workers go on hunger strike, demanding better pay and benefits

After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.

April 13, 2025
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  • Katia Riddle
Afghan men load up food packets that were distributed as aid by the World Food Programme. Last weekend, all USAID contracts supporting humanitarian aid from WFP and other agencies in Afghanistan were canceled.

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  • Global Health

Dozens of USAID contracts were canceled last weekend. Here's what happened

The rationale was to address "mismanagement, fraud, and misaligned priorities." Former USAID official Jeremy Konyndyk said reversals and inconsistences in the cancellations created "total whiplash."

April 12, 2025
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  • Melody Schreiber
Veterans gathered in Indianapolis and in places across the country on March 14 to protest the Trump administration's staff and budget cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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  • Health

'I cannot guarantee complete confidentiality,' VA therapists ordered to tell veterans

Mental health therapists at Veterans Affairs should begin sessions with patients saying they are in a shared office space, a memo obtained by NPR says. Trump's back-to-office orders start Monday for VA.

April 11, 2025
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By:
  • Katia Riddle
The Trump administration has directed the NIH to study the physical and mental health effects of gender transitioning. The treatments can include taking hormones such as testosterone as well as surgeries.

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  • Health

White House orders NIH to research trans 'regret' and 'detransition'

The new research will study the physical and mental health effects of gender transition. It comes on the heels of the administration cutting hundreds of research grants for LGBTQ+ health.

April 11, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Towana Looney, who received a genetically modified pig kidney in November 2024, had the organ removed after her body rejected it.

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  • Health

Pig kidney transplant fails after patient rejection

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

April 11, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Researchers integrated four organoids that represent the four components of the human sensory pathway, along which pain signals are conveyed to the brain. Stimulation of the sensory organoid (top) by substances, such as capsaicin, triggers neuronal activity that is then transmitted throughout the rest of the organoids.

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  • Health

Pain pathway in a dish could aid search for new analgesic drugs

Scientists have recreated a pathway that senses pain, using clusters of human nerve cells grown in a dish.

April 10, 2025
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
People drink water from a water fountain in New York City on July 7, 2010.

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  • National

HHS will review guidance on the addition of fluoride to drinking water

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has blamed the addition of fluoride — a common, naturally occurring mineral — for a host of health issues. The CDC says the policy has reduced cavities by some 25%.

April 10, 2025
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By:
  • Alana Wise
Governor Brian Kemp alongside Fulton County board Chairman Robb Pitts.

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  • Health Care

New emergency room coming to South Atlanta aims to fill health care gaps

Grady Health Systems broke ground on a freestanding emergency room in Union City on Wednesday, as part of larger plans to improve access.

April 10, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas
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