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An illustration of the blastocyst stage of embryo development at about five to nine days after fertilization. The outer layer will grow to form the placenta. The inner cells will become the fetus.

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  • Medical Treatments

The science of IVF: What to know about Alabama's 'extrauterine children' ruling

Why are so many frozen embryos created? And how is the Alabama Supreme Court ruling likely to affect IVF in the future? Here's what you need to know.

February 23, 2024
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By:
  • Maria Godoy
A case of bronchitis in 2014 left Sanna Stella, a therapist who lives in the Chicago area, with debilitating fatigue.

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  • Health

Clues to a better understanding of chronic fatigue syndrome emerge from a major study

After seven years of research, the findings shed light on the long-neglected illness. Scientists say the results could lead to future trials for potential treatments.

February 23, 2024
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By:
  • Will Stone
An Alabama Supreme Court Ruling that classifies frozen embryos as "extrauterine children" has led to uncertainty for IVF patients and clinics in the state.

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  • Politics

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey says she wants to protect IVF treatment after court ruling

Following a State Supreme Court ruling that gave frozen embryos the same rights as children, Governor Kay Ivey says she supports a legislative fix to protect IVF treatment in the state.

February 23, 2024
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By:
  • Susanna Capelouto,
  • Kyle Gassiott,
  • and 1 more
At a one-day workshop run by the Care School for Men in Bogotá, Colombia, male medical students at Sanitas University learn how to cradle a baby. This class of participants consists of medical students, but the usual enrollees are dads of all types.

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  • Family

Hey, guys, wanna know how to diaper a baby or make a ponytail? Try the School for Men

An innovative program in Colombia gives men a chance to master the skills needed to be a hands-on dad — and become closer to their kids along the way.

February 23, 2024
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By:
  • Christina Noriega and
  • Ben de la Cruz
WellStar Atlanta Medical Center shut its doors on Nov. 1, leaving the city 460 hospital beds poorer. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder

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  • News

Report: Portion of Atlanta Medical Center to be used as temporary shelter

The former athletic club at Wellstar’s Atlanta Medical Center will become a temporary emergency shelter for unhoused residents, according to a report by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

February 23, 2024
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By:
  • Dyana Bagby
Tim Lillard at the home he and his late wife, Ann Picha-Lillard, shared in suburban southeast Michigan. Since her death in 2022, Lillard has made it his mission to pass the Safe Patient Care Act, which would create mandatory nurse-to-patient ratios in Michigan hospitals.

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  • Health

After his wife died, he joined nurses to push for new staffing rules in hospitals

Nurses have been telling lawmakers that hospital understaffing is putting patient lives at risk. They want Michigan to follow California and Oregon and institute mandatory staffing ratios.

February 23, 2024
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By:
  • Kate Wells
Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), her medical care team announced Thursday. Here, Williams attends the world premiere of Apple TV+'s <em>The Morning Show</em> in New York on Oct. 28, 2019.

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  • Health

Wendy Williams is diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia

News of the former TV host's medical diagnosis comes days ahead of the TV premiere of Where is Wendy Williams? — a two-part documentary detailing her health battles.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin and
  • Ayana Archie
A son hugs his father in a kitchen

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  • Health

Georgia study counts Americans born in the '80s and '90s living with an intellectual disability

Researchers with Augusta University are estimating how many adults nationwide are living with an intellectual disability.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Left: President Joe Biden delivers remarks to the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference on Feb. 12 in Washington. Right: Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, during a bus tour campaign event in South Carolina on Feb. 21.

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  • Politics

Biden and Haley spar over abortion after Alabama court rules embryos are 'children'

Nikki Haley seemed to side with the Alabama court's decision, telling NBC News, "Embryos, to me, are babies." President Biden has seized the opportunity to call for enshrining Roe.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Lexie Schapitl
Alexis Ratcliff attends her 18th birthday party at the hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C. She is a quadriplegic who uses a ventilator and has lived at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist since she was 13.

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  • Investigations

A hospital is suing to move a quadriplegic 18-year-old to a nursing home. She says no

The young North Carolina woman has refused to go to a nursing home in another state. While she wants to leave the hospital, she asks to live in her own home, close to family and her school.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Joseph Shapiro
Mexican health authorities suspended operation at this medical clinic in Matamoros, Tamaulipas after reports that a number of cosmetic surgery patients were exposed to a potentially deadly fungal meningitis. Twelve patients with probable or confirmed cases died.

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  • Global Health

They came to clinics in Mexico for cosmetic surgery and got a deadly fungal meningitis

The risks of medical tourism are depicted in a study of U.S patients who traveled to two clinics for procedures like tummy tucks and butt lifts — and were exposed to a virulent fungal meningitis.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
Frozen embryos and sperm are stored in liquid nitrogen at a fertility clinic in Florida. The Alabama Supreme Court ruling stems from wrongful death cases brought by three couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in an accident at a fertility clinic in the state.

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  • National

Alabama's largest hospital says it is halting IVF treatments in wake of court ruling

Fertility clinics in Alabama are contemplating next steps after the state Supreme Court ruled that frozen fertilized eggs are children — and discarding them would be a crime.

February 21, 2024
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By:
  • Melanie Peeples
Aides to Gov. Brian Kemp recently sent word to lawmakers he was skeptical of an expansion of the state's Medicaid program, pouring cold water on a push earlier in the session to provide health coverage for hundreds of thousands of uninsured Georgians.

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  • Politics

Red states that have resisted Medicaid expansion are feeling pressure to give up

More and more Southern states are talking about fully expanding Medicaid to cover poor residents. They've resisted the option for a decade, but are now running into competition with each other.

February 21, 2024
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By:
  • Sam Gringlas
Palestinian children wait to collect food at a donation point in a refugee camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 23, 2023.

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  • Global Health

Humanitarian crises abound. Why is the U.N. asking for less aid money than last year?

"This is the first time that this has happened in recent years," said Martin Griffiths of the United Nations. about the reduced ask. Why in a time of greater need is the U.N. lowering its appeal?

February 21, 2024
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By:
  • Gabriel Spitzer
E-bike use is increasing quickly, but many people do not wear helmets. And head injuries from e-bike accidents are rising fast too, a study in JAMA Surgery shows.

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  • Your Health

E-bike head trauma soars as helmet use falls, study finds

A new study shows that nearly 8,000 e-bike riders sought hospital care for head injuries in 2022. It's a huge increase and the majority of the injured riders were not wearing helmets.

February 21, 2024
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  • Ronnie Cohen
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