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News Articles: Health

Sarah Wildman and Orli, photographed in early summer 2021. Orli was finishing a second round of chemotherapy after her liver cancer had metastasized when she was asked to participate in a project chronicling the beauty of baldness.

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  • Children's Health

'I wanted to buy her time': A mother looks back on her daughter's terminal cancer

Sarah Wildman's daughter Orli died at age 14. "She would sometimes ask me, 'What do you think I did to deserve this?' And of course, that's not an answerable question," Wildman says.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Cannabis is legal in many states but not federally. As more Americans consume weed products, concern is growing about the risks of traces of contaminants such as pesticides and heavy metals.

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  • Health

How safe is your weed? Patchy regulations may leave contaminants in the weed supply

Millions of Americans use cannabis and would like to think the products they buy are safe. But regulation is state by state and full of holes. NPR's new series digs into the risks and solutions.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin and
  • Brian Mann
The halt to USAID projects will likely impact secret schools for girls across Afghanistan, which could close as soon as the funds from the U.S. agency go dry. Above: A teenage girl wearing a face mask, head scarf and long black robe at a tutoring center in Kabul, established by a women's rights activist to circumvent a Taliban ban on girls attending secondary school.

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  • Global Health

U.S. aid freeze hits secret girls' schools, post-flood repair and much more

The suspension of foreign aid by the Trump administration is having a worldwide impact. Here's how it has affected projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid
A USAID officer watches as a US military C-17 cargo plane taxis to a stop at Kathmandu's international airport on May 3, 2015.  International aid continues to pour into Nepal to help victims of a massive earthquake on April 25 killed at least 7,200 people and devastated vast swathes of one of Asia's poorest countries.

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  • Global Health

Why does Musk want USAID 'to die'? And why did its website disappear?

Under the Trump administration, the U.S. agency that funds aid projects has faced layoffs, a stop action order for most aid efforts and a disruption of its website. Now Elon Musk says it should 'die.'

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
Woman face with disgusting expression in pop art style

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  • Health

Did your date give you 'the ick'? Here's the science behind the feeling

You know that feeling when someone you're dating does this one thing that you just can't look past? Here's what scientists say about why we react this way and whether the feeling is reversible.

February 02, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Muraskin and
  • Brittany Luse
A home that was destroyed by wildfire in Altadena, Calif.

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  • Mental Health

In the LA fires and the NC floods, 'CPR for mental health' treats unseen wounds

From Altadena to Asheville, people devastated by recent disasters encountered helpers trained in Psychological First Aid. Like CPR, anybody can learn it.

February 02, 2025
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By:
  • Katia Riddle
A worker moves crates of eggs on Jan. 11, 2024 at the Sunrise Farms processing plant in Petaluma, Calif., which has seen outbreaks of avian flu.

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  • Health

On the frontline against bird flu, egg farmers fear they're losing the battle

The tools the US used to contain previous bird flu outbreaks just aren't working this time, according to some agricultural experts. Some egg farmers have called for vaccinations for poultry.

February 02, 2025
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  • Kate Wells
If you can't stop shaking your knee, don't try to stop yourself. "Embrace the fidget," says Katy Bowman, a biomechanist and the author of the book <em>Rethink Your Position</em>. That spontaneous movement can be your body's way of telling you it's time to move.

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  • Health

Fidgeting at your desk? Your body may be trying to tell you something

That spontaneous restless movement plays an important role in our health. Here's what to do the next time you find yourself bouncing your knee or clicking and unclicking your pen.

February 02, 2025
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By:
  • Marielle Segarra and
  • Margaret Cirino
A woman in Nairobi, Kenya, who is HIV positive takes antiretroviral pills, which suppress the virus. The U.S. program PEPFAR is instrumental in providing these life-saving medications around the world.

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  • Global Health

Conflicting signals from Trump could disrupt HIV meds. What's the impact?

A series of orders from the Trump administration have the potential to disrupt the delivery of life-saving medications to HIV positive people. Here's what a disruption of this drug regimen would mean.

February 01, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Webpages at the CDC and other health agencies went down on Friday.

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  • Health

Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies

Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.


January 31, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone and
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Ariz., is managed by a consortium of universities and the National Science Foundation.

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  • Science

National Science Foundation freezes payments in response to Trump's executive actions

The National Science Foundation's funding freeze, and wider confusion about the status and future of science funding, is already hampering research.

January 31, 2025
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By:
  • Jonathan Lambert
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  • Health

Warnock questions RFK Jr.'s commitment to reducing health care costs in Georgia

Georgia U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock will be voting no on the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He says the candidate is manifestly unqualified for the job.

January 31, 2025
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Senator Angela Alsobrook, a Democrat from Maryland questioned RFK Jr.'s suggestion that Black people should be on a different vaccine schedule than white people.

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  • Health

Senator calls RFK Jr.'s position on race and vaccines dangerous

In one of the most tense exchanges in a heated confirmation hearing, Senator Angela Alsobrooks called out past comments RFK Jr. made suggesting a different vaccine schedule for Black people.

January 31, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is President Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. He faced more tough questions in his second confirmation hearing, held Thursday before the Senate HELP Committee.

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  • Health

RFK Jr., Trump's pick for HHS, grilled about vaccines again in Day 2 hearing

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wanted "gold standard science" on vaccines, but when presented with compelling research, he cited reasons to doubt it.

January 30, 2025
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By:
  • Shannon Bond,
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin,
  • and 1 more
The FDA has upgraded a recall of over 6,000 bags of Frito-Lay Lay's Classic Potato Chips to a Class I recall, the agency's highest level of severity.

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  • National

FDA upgrades recall of Lay's potato chips to most serious level

The problem ingredient identified was "undeclared milk," which poses a risk to those with severe sensitivities or allergies.

January 30, 2025
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
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