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News Articles: Health

A family with a young child and an infant

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  • Health Care

Online maternity care better connects patients to providers — thanks to the web camera

Georgia doctors say telehealth monitoring of pregnant people provides better better, more frequent access to maternity care.

January 02, 2023
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge

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  • Health

Time is fleeting. Here's how to stay on track with New Year's goals

As we dive into another new year of resolutions, managing time is the key to success. And learning to organize our time around our goals may mean saying 'no' to activities that don't align.

January 02, 2023
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By:
  • Allison Aubrey
Ndidi Nwuneli speaks at the 2022 Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards, hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in New York City. The event recognizes the work of those who help advance the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals in their communities and around the world.

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  • Africa

Don't think of Africa as a hungry child, says a champion of Africa's food prowess

If you think that African countries have nothing to contribute to the global food supply, Ndidi Nunweli would like you to think about what you eat daily.

January 02, 2023
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By:
  • Max Barnhart
Paula Naylor pushes her father, Paul Romanello, with his wheelchair on Dec. 21 in Tulsa, Okla. Romanello was recently celebrated by the Centenarians of Oklahoma when he turned 100 years old.

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  • National

When someone turns 100, these volunteers are there to make sure they're honored

For the past three decades, the Centenarians of Oklahoma volunteers have made it their mission to celebrate as many centenarians as they can. To date, they've honored more than 2,700 and counting.

January 02, 2023
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By:
  • Jason Breslow
GPB News NPR

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  • Health

A Colorado library will reopen after traces of meth were found in the building

The main library in Boulder, Colorado, had been receiving increased reports of drug use in the bathrooms over a four-week span. It has been closed since late December.

January 02, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Bithaniya Fieseha, a high school senior, graduates from the Youth Public Health Ambassador program run by the Fairfax County Health Department at West Springfield High School in Fairfax County, Va.

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  • Health

Short on community health workers, a county trains teens as youth ambassadors

In Fairfax County, Va., the health department is training high school students to become health ambassadors in underserved communities and get a leg up on future careers in public health.

January 01, 2023
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By:
  • Pien Huang
An older adult receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccination site on Dec. 7 in Chongqing, China. Concerns about effectiveness and safety have led to uncertainty about the COVID vaccine, notably among older citizens, whose vaccination rate is relatively low.

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  • Global Health

China's COVID vaccines: Do the jabs do the job?

As case counts surge in China, rumors circulate about the effectiveness and safety of the made-in-China vaccines in use there. Here's what we know about CoronaVac and Sinopharm.

December 31, 2022
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
hospital image

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  • Health Care

Millions of adults and children will likely be re-evaluated for Medicaid eligibility in 2023

An expected end to the federal COVID-19 public health emergency next year means low-income Georgians should prepare for Medicaid evaluations, says the Georgia Department of Public Health

December 31, 2022
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
A boy works in a coal mine north of Kabul. Afghanistan's state-run coal industry is going strong in an otherwise shattered economy. Many underage workers are the ones who are extracting the coal.

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  • World

In Afghanistan, coal mining relies on the labor of children

Since the return of the Taliban, Afghanistan's coal exports have increased — and so has child labor. At a coal mine in Baghlan province, boys earn between $3 and $8 for a day's work.

December 31, 2022
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By:
  • Arezou Rezvani,
  • Fazelminallah Qazizai,
  • and 1 more
Joyce Cohen Lashof was the first female dean of UC Berkeley's School of Public Health and a lifelong fighter for social justice.

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  • Global Health

In memoriam: Female trailblazers who leapt over barriers to fight for their sisters

They were pioneers in their fields, working to improve the health and lives of other women and paving the way for other female scientists.

December 30, 2022
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By:
  • Joanne Silberner and
  • Laurel Dalrymple
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) signage is seen through a bus stop at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Silver Spring, Md., on the FDA grounds.

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  • Food

Food safety will rely on better traceability data, says new FDA rule

Harvesters, processors, manufacturers and others in the food chain have three years to comply with the new record keeping system, effective next month

December 30, 2022
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
The homepage for the new Georgia Access website set up by the state government this fall.

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  • Health

Georgia establishes its own health insurance portal, Georgia Access 

ATLANTA — After failing to win federal approval to exit the federal insurance marketplace earlier this year, Georgia has established its own health insurance portal directing people to private insurers and brokers to buy health insurance. 

December 30, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine
New father Yappe Pako gets help with his kangaroo care carrier from a midwife. His newborn son is named Ambo Crisostome. They're in the kangaroo care ward at the University Hospital Medical Center at Treichville in the Ivory Coast. A new program teaches the technique to moms and dads. It's especially beneficial for preterm and low birthweight babies.

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  • Photography

Editors' picks: Our best global photos of 2022 range from heart-rending to hopeful

The eye of the camera told the stories of kangaroo care for human babies, Angola's intrepid female de-miners, Ukrainian refugees who find a warm — and familiar — welcome in Brazil and more.

December 30, 2022
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By:
  • Marc Silver
A man walks past a National Health Service sign in 2007 in London. The NHS offers services at the Askern Medical Practice in Doncaster, whose patients mistakenly received text messages informing them of a terminal cancer diagnosis.

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  • Europe

A U.K. medical office mistakenly sent patients a text message with a cancer diagnosis

The Christmas Eve message informing patients of a terminal lung cancer diagnosis was followed by a second text apologizing for the error and saying the office meant to offer them holiday greetings.

December 29, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Ahn
Kaitlyn and Landon Joshua were worried for Kaitlyn's health when she started to bleed heavily and had labor-like pains early in her pregnancy. But two different emergency rooms she went to wouldn't confirm she was miscarrying or explain her treatment options.

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  • Health

Bleeding and in pain, she couldn't get 2 Louisiana ERs to answer: Is it a miscarriage?

When she was pregnant, Kaitlyn Joshua struggled to get medical care — and answers — in post-Roe Louisiana, where abortion is banned.

December 29, 2022
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  • Rosemary Westwood
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