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John Greene and his counselor Emily Georgia at Family & Children's Counseling Services in Cortland, N.Y. Greene is four months into recovery for the first time since he started regularly using drugs at age 14. He credits a new program that the counseling center started with opioid settlement money.

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  • Health

How are states spending their opioid settlement cash? Look yours up in this database

From addiction treatment to toy robot ambulances, here's how state and local governments used billions in opioid settlement funds in 2022 and 2023. Explore this database to find our how officials are using the payouts where you live.

December 16, 2024
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By:
  • Aneri Pattani
Health care advocates are shown protesting care denials at UnitedHealthcare's offices on July 15, 2024 in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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  • Health Care

Americans are furious over health care. Is this an Occupy Wall Street moment?

The public outrage unleashed by the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO echoes the anti-banking fury after the financial crisis and comes as populist economic fatigue helped re-elect Donald Trump.

December 15, 2024
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By:
  • Maria Aspan
Shahu Patole prepares food in his mother's kitchen in Khamgaon, India. He's the author of the cookbook <em>Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada.</em>

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  • Global Health

This cookbook is unlike any other from India. Pass the honeycomb, please!

In Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada, Shahu Patole pays tribute to a cuisine that has long been considered not worthy of documentation. We interviewed Patole — and are sharing some of his recipes.

December 15, 2024
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Omkar Khandekar
Three members of the Women's March group protest in support of access to abortion medication outside the Federal Courthouse on March 15, 2023, in Amarillo, Texas.

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  • National

Texas challenges shield laws by suing New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit against a New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills for a client near Dallas, pitting an abortion ban against laws that protect physicians.

December 13, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Geri Landman and her daughter Lucy.

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  • Health

For kids with rare genetic disorders, customized CRISPR treatments offer hope

The gene-editing technique is effective for treating some illnesses but it's been too expensive to consider it for rare conditions. A new approach in the works could make it more widely available.

December 13, 2024
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  • Rob Stein
People affiliated with opioid recovery service providers listen in April to the question and answer portion of the Macon informational session around how Georgia's Opioid Crisis Abatement Trust will disburse millions of dollars of settlement funds.

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  • Health

Which Georgia programs will receive money from national opioid lawsuit settlements?

Awards from the state have been announced for the first two years of programs aimed at addressing the opioid epidemic.

December 13, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
A father teaches his child to swim in a pond in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Drowning is a leading causes of death globally for children, according to the first ever report on drowning as a public health issue issued by the World Health Organization.

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  • Global Health

How to prevent drowning: a ground-breaking report that's startling yet hopeful

The World Health Organization gathered data from 139 countries for its first-ever report on how to prevent drowning.

December 13, 2024
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  • Melody Schreiber
Dusk falls over snowy mountains that overlook the Arctic Cathedral and the houses mirrored in the icy fjord in Tromsø, Norway. Although this city is north of the Arctic Circle and experiences polar night for two months out of the year, its residents tend to see winter as a time of opportunity.

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  • Mental Health

People in colder countries understand the magic of winter. What's their secret?

Researcher Kari Leibowitz traveled to places with some of the harshest winters on Earth to understand how people thrive in the cold and dark. Her findings may inspire you to find comfort and joy in the season.

December 13, 2024
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  • Marielle Segarra and
  • Bria Suggs
A pharmacist holds a vial of lenacapavir, at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation's Masiphumelele Research Site, in Cape Town, South Africa. The drug's development has been heralded as the 2024 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal <em>Science,</em> which described it as representing "a pivotal step toward diminishing HIV/AIDS as a global health crisis."

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  • Global Health

This drug is the 'breakthrough of the year' -- and it could mean the end of the HIV epidemic

That's the title that Science magazine is bestowing upon the medication called lenacapavir — a twice yearly injectable that prevents infection by the HIV virus.

December 12, 2024
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  • David Cox and
  • Maria Isabel Barros Guinle
Health care advocates protested care denials at UnitedHealthcare on July 15, 2024, in Minnetonka, Minn. The shooting of UHC CEO Brian Thompson has sparked an outcry online over issues with the U.S. health care system.

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  • Health

UHC murder suspect railed about U.S. health care. Here's what he missed

The man charged in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was critical of U.S. health care. Experts say the system's problems are complex and can't be pinned on one player or industry.

December 12, 2024
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Clockwise, from top left: Laura Forer, Michelle Allette, Domenique Rice, Jen Loga, Dr. Patty Ng and Marise Angibeau-Gray

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  • Health

Through 'The Loss Mother's Stone,' mothers share their grief from losing a child to stillbirth

Through her work, photographer Nancy Borowick says she hopes to draw awareness to women's stories, educate Americans and destigmatize the conversation that occurs between doctors and patients.

December 11, 2024
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  • Nancy Borowick
The Afghanistan Memory Home Museum creates "memory boxes" with personal belongings and photographs and documents for those who suffered or died in the country's conflicts. This memory box memorializes Kawsar Qubadian and includes her sweater and slippers.

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  • Global Health

An Afghan museum, that buried its artifacts after Taliban takeover, is reborn online

The Afghanistan Memory Home Museum shares details and belongings from those who've died in conflict. It shut its doors when the Taliban took power, buried much of its collection — but has now reemerged.

December 10, 2024
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  • Ruchi Kumar
The Children's Hospital currently serves about 65,000 children each year.

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  • Health

Most Georgia hospitals fail to comply with federal price listing rule until fined

Only 21 of 51 (41%) Georgia hospitals reviewed were fully complying with the federal Hospital Price Transparency rule, according to a new report.

December 10, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
A hundred or so people in church pews in various stages of engagement in a public conversation.

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  • Environment

Decades-long dispute over whether coal ash made Monroe County residents ill is settled out of court

Long-running lawsuits brought against Georgia Power by residents of the Monroe County town of Juliette have been resolved "to the satisfaction of both parties."

December 10, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Black smoke billows into the sky above a Conyers shopping plaza as the BioLab chemical fire burns on September 29, 2024.

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  • News

‘There's chemical smoke everywhere.’ Hear the 911 call as employee reports the Sept. 29 BioLab fire

Newly released 911 calls and dispatch notes from the Sept. 29 BioLab fire in Conyers, offer a closer look at the early hours of the chemical fire that forced 17,000 evacuations and weeks of shelter-in-place orders.

December 09, 2024
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  • Pamela Kirkland
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