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News Articles: Health

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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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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  • 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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  • 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
A cold fire circle underneath a Macon bridge on Wednesday, December 28. Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said two men were killed in Macon by the recent record cold.

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  • Health

As record cold recedes, there's no real idea in Georgia of its human toll

In the hope of stemming deaths from exposure to extreme temperatures, cities across Georgia either set up or expanded warming shelters heading into the record setting holiday cold snap. But now as the weather heats up again, the human toll of the cold is still unclear.

December 29, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
Federal prosecutors say the drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen Corp. failed to report suspicious orders for opioids. The company says the government "cherry picked" possible violations.

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  • Law

Feds sue AmerisourceBergen over 'hundreds of thousands' of alleged opioid violations

DOJ officials say the drug wholesaler could face "billions of dollars" in penalties for failing to report diversion of prescription opioid pain medications shipped to pharmacies across the U.S.

December 29, 2022
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  • Brian Mann
Humans have an elegant and intricate system of internal processes that help our bodies keep time, with exposure to sunlight, caffeine and meal timing all playing a role. But that doesn't account for "precision waking."

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  • Health

I usually wake up just ahead of my alarm. What's up with that?

Call it "precision waking" — the alleged ability to decide when you want to wake up and then doing so, without an alarm. If you think you can do it, you're not alone, though how is still mysterious.

December 29, 2022
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  • Will Stone
Gerhardt Boukes, chief scientist at Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, formulates mRNA for use in a new vaccine against COVID-19. The company — based in Cape Town, South Africa — is the linchpin of a global project to enable low- and middle-income countries to make mRNA vaccines against all manner of diseases.

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  • Global Health

How a scrappy African startup could forever change the world of vaccines

Afrigen is the linchpin of global project to use mRNA technology to empower low-resource countries to make their own vaccines against killer diseases from TB to HIV. What will it take to succeed?

December 29, 2022
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  • Nurith Aizenman
South Georgia is getting a new emergency room.

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  • News

New emergency room comes to South Georgia

South Georgia is getting a new emergency room.South Georgia is getting a new emergency room.

December 28, 2022
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  • GPB News Staff
Bivalent COVID-19 vaccines are readied for use at a clinic in Richmond, Va., Nov. 2022. Just 15% of eligible Americans have gotten the most recent booster shot, according to the CDC.

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  • Health

It's not too late to get a COVID booster — especially for older adults

Public health officials want more Americans to get the latest COVID vaccine booster. Only 35% of people over 65 have gotten the shot, though 75% of COVID deaths are among people in this age group.

December 28, 2022
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
A Border Patrol agent checks an asylum-seeker's passport after she turned herself in, in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Dec. 19.

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  • National

Supreme Court allows border restrictions for asylum-seekers to continue for now

The justices agreed to decide in its February argument session whether 19 states that oppose the Title 42 policy should be allowed to intervene in defense of the restrictions in the lower courts.

December 28, 2022
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  • Joel Rose
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia David Estes speaks outside the United Way of the Coastal Empire in downtown Savannah on Dec. 8, 2022, about federal funding for Tharros Place.

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  • Health

DOJ to help fund planned shelter in Chatham County for juvenile human trafficking victims

Opening in summer 2023, Tharros Place in Savannah will offer shelter and supportive services to girls between 11 and 17 who are child survivors of human trafficking.

December 27, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
Registered nurse Carole Kriessman performs a quick checkup on Ja'Mil'Lion DeLorenzo's 4-week-old son, Haiyden, at DeLorenzo's grandmother's home in Glenolden, Pa., on June 9.

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  • National

Maternal deaths in the U.S. are staggeringly common. Personal nurses could help

The nation has the highest rate of maternal mortality among wealthy countries. A long-standing program, Nurse-Family Partnership, which supports new parents, works to address this deadly trend.

December 27, 2022
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  • Laura Benshoff
A Washington, D.C., resident has an operation growing psilocybin mushrooms. Brain researchers are increasingly studying psychedelic compounds like psilocybin and LSD as potential treatments for anxiety, depression and other disorders.

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  • Science

Psychedelic drugs may launch a new era in psychiatric treatment, brain scientists say

Psychedelic drugs were a hot topic at this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting. Researchers hope the drugs can help people with disorders like depression and PTSD.

December 27, 2022
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  • Jon Hamilton
A passenger checks her phone as an Air China passenger jet taxis past at the Beijing Capital International airport on Oct. 29. China will drop a COVID-19 quarantine requirement for passengers arriving from abroad starting Jan. 8.

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  • Asia

China will end its COVID-19 quarantine requirement for incoming passengers

The scrapping of the quarantine requirement starting Jan. 8 is a major step toward reopening travel with the rest of the world, which the government severely curtailed in a bid to keep the virus out.

December 26, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Liang from Beijing, center, looks on as his 82-year-old grandmother is brought in a casket to the Gaobeidian Funeral Home in northern China's Hebei province on Dec. 22, 2022. Liang's grandmother had been unvaccinated when she came down with coronavirus symptoms, and had spent her final days hooked to a respirator in a Beijing ICU.

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  • Asia

China has stopped publishing daily COVID data amid reports of a huge spike in cases

China's National Health Commission said in a statement it would no longer publish daily data and that "from now on, the Chinese CDC will release relevant COVID information for reference and research."

December 25, 2022
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  • Robbie Griffiths
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