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Researchers and experts share safety tips to make your skin care and beauty regimen leaner and cleaner.

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  • Health

How to avoid harmful chemicals in skin care and beauty products

Some ingredients found in personal care products like lotion and shampoo may be harmful to your health. Here's how to avoid these chemicals and choose healthier alternatives.

April 08, 2025
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  • Marielle Segarra,
  • Clare Marie Schneider,
  • and 1 more
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Wellness Center is an Indian Health Service facility in Eagle Butte, South Dakota. This picture was taken in 2021, when the area was hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Health

Transfer to Alaska? Offer to health leaders called 'insult' to Indian Health Service

NPR obtained emails that went out last week to leaders at health agencies offering to transfer them to postings in tribal communities. Officials close to Dr. Anthony Fauci got the offer.

April 07, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
People who exercised the equivalent of about an hour of walking a day, six days a week saw the most benefit.

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  • Your Health

Colon cancer survivors who exercise regularly live longer

Colon cancer is on the rise in younger people in the U.S. New research shows regular exercise can help survivors live longer — in some cases even longer than people who didn't have cancer.

April 07, 2025
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  • Maria Godoy
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, arrives at Reinlander Mennonite Church after a second measles death of a child, on Sunday in Seminole, Texas.

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  • Health

RFK Jr. visits epicenter of Texas measles outbreak after death of second child

A second school-aged child in West Texas has died from a measles-related illness, a hospital spokesman confirmed Sunday, as the outbreak continues to swell.

April 06, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Undue Medical Debt is retiring $30 billion in unpaid medical bills for 20 million people.

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  • Health

Major deal wipes out $30 billion in medical debt. Even backers say it's not enough

Undue Medical Debt is retiring unpaid medical bills for 20 million people. The debt trading company that owned them is leaving the market.

April 05, 2025
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  • Noam Levey
A worker wheels out the belongings of a fellow employee who was dismissed, outside of the Mary E. Switzer Federal Office Building, which houses HHS offices in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

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  • Health

'Your RIF notice is not cancelled.' Inside a chaotic week of massive layoffs at HHS

Health agency staffers describe a week of widespread uncertainty about who still has a job and how the work will get done as thousands of "reduction in force" notices went out beginning April 1. To many it's the opposite of "government efficiency."

April 05, 2025
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  • Rob Stein,
  • Yuki Noguchi,
  • and 4 more
The main campus of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Thousands of its employees were among those laid off by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on April 1.

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  • Global Health

How will the deep cuts at the Centers for Disease Control affect global programs?

The U.S. agency has not released information on what global programs were cut this week. NPR spoke to current employees who provided exclusive details.

April 04, 2025
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis
The Department of Health and Human Services is facing spending as well as staffing cuts.

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  • Health

On top of layoffs, HHS ordered to cut 35% of spending on contracts

Federal health agencies have to slash their spending on contracts by more than a third, on top of the 10,000-person staffing cuts which started this week.

April 03, 2025
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  • Rob Stein,
  • Sydney Lupkin,
  • and 2 more
Sugary drinks including soda are the leading source of added sugars in the American diet.

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  • Health

RFK Jr. wants to stop people using SNAP benefits to buy soda. Will it help?

Nutritionists agree reducing the amount of sugar people consume would be good for the Nation's health. But the plan to block people from using food assistance to buy soda is getting mixed reviews.

April 03, 2025
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  • Katia Riddle
The Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a case that tests whether South Carolina can remove Planned Parenthood clinics from its state Medicaid program, even though Medicaid funds cannot generally be used to fund abortions.

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  • Law

Supreme Court to decide if states can strip Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funds

At issue is whether a state, in this case, South Carolina, can remove Planned Parenthood clinics from its state Medicaid program, even though Medicaid funds cannot generally be used to fund abortions.

April 03, 2025
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  • Nina Totenberg
Among the thousands of layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this week were many staff who handled public records requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

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  • Health

After promising transparency, RFK guts public records teams at HHS

Despite promises for "radical transparency," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. laid off many staff on teams that fulfill public records requests at health agencies.

April 03, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall speaks during inauguration ceremonies on the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala. on Jan. 16, 2023.

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  • Health

Judge rules Alabama can't prosecute groups helping patients get abortions elsewhere

Although most abortions remain illegal in Alabama, the decision allows doctors and advocacy groups to tell patients about abortion options in other states, and help with travel and other costs

April 03, 2025
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By:
  • Drew Hawkins

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  • Health

Misinformation about fentanyl exposure threatens to undermine overdose response

Fentanyl overdoses occur from ingesting the synthetic opioid. But popular culture has misrepresented the risks to first responders.

April 03, 2025
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By:
  • Henry Larweh
Kellen Hedler leads his fellow classmates at Frontier Elementary School near Oklahoma City. Kellen has Down syndrome, a genetic condition that causes a range of physical and developmental challenges.

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  • Education

How the Education Department helps students with disabilities get an education

Special education laws and the U.S. Department of Education have evolved together over nearly five decades. Now, the Trump administration seems to want to separate the two.

April 03, 2025
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By:
  • Jonaki Mehta
New tests of blood and spinal fluid could help doctors quickly identify patients who would most benefit from treatment.

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  • Science

Latest Alzheimer's lab tests focus on memory loss, not brain plaques

New tests of blood and spinal fluid can identify people experiencing memory loss from Alzheimer's disease.

April 03, 2025
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  • Jon Hamilton
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