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News Articles: Health

Hundreds of NIH scientists protested cuts to the research agency in a declaration addressed to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya.

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  • Science

NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research

In a public letter, hundreds of scientists expressed their dissent to the Trump administration's policies affecting the National Institutes of Health and called on its director to support the agency.

June 09, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Alan Weintraub and Louise Weintraub

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  • Health

Georgians with Long COVID react to updated federal vaccine recommendations

Recent changes to federal COVID vaccine recommendations mean fewer people, including children, pregnant women and people under 65 are likely to be vaccinated. Some worry this could lead to more people with long-term complications.

June 09, 2025
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  • Ellen Eldridge

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  • Your Health

Should you track your blood sugar with a continuous glucose monitor?

A continuous glucose monitor is a small device that sticks to your arm. Every few minutes it sends a signal to your phone estimating your blood sugar levels. But can it improve your health?

June 09, 2025
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Ten-year-old Keashaanth, with a notebook and chessboard in front of him, follows along as his coach Selvabharathy leads a class at the Madras School of Chess in Chenna

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  • Global Health

India (and its kids) are out to conquer the world of chess

Chess is seeing a global resurgence, sparked by The Queen's Gambit and the pandemic impact on leisure time. India is an emerging power player, with 85 grandmasters and intense chess schools for youth.

June 09, 2025
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By:
  • Omkar Khandekar
President John F. Kennedy on August 4, 1961 on his way to a weekend on Cape Cod. As president, Kennedy valued exercise, physical fitness and vaccines.

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  • Health

RFK Jr. says Americans were healthier when his uncle was president. Is he right?

American life expectancy in 1960 was almost ten years shorter than it is today. And the leading causes of death were chronic diseases. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. frequently tells a different story.

June 09, 2025
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Recalled organic and cage-free brown eggs distributed by August Egg Company have the plant code number P-6562 or CA5330 printed on their carton or packaging.

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  • Health

Salmonella outbreak linked to California egg distributor sickens 79 people

U.S. health officials confirmed the salmonella infections were linked to contaminated organic and cage-free brown eggs from August Egg Company. All recalled eggs should be thrown away, the CDC said.

June 08, 2025
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By:
  • Clare Marie Schneider
Jonathan Alperstein, one of the researchers, excavates a portion of land on an ancient agricultural site in Michigan.

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  • Science

A surprise find in Michigan shows the extent of ancient Native American agriculture

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.

June 08, 2025
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce

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  • World

How a network of women in Latin America transformed safe, self-managed abortions

An underground network of feminists and activists developed new models of care for abortion that eventually helped legalize abortion in countries across Latin America.

June 08, 2025
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By:
  • Marta Martínez and
  • Liana Simstrom

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  • Health

6 feel-good exercises to alleviate sore, achy feet

Foot care professionals share movements that can reduce the risk of injury, prevent and alleviate pain, and improve overall foot health. Give them a try the next time your dogs are barking.

June 07, 2025
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  • Andee Tagle
Adriana Smith is a patient at Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta. Emergency complications early in her pregnancy led to brain death, but she remains on life support as the pregnancy continues, according to her family. Her case has become a symbol of the medical and ethical issues stemming from a Georgia law that bans most abortions and confers fetal "personhood" rights.<br>

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  • Health

Does Georgia's fetal 'personhood' law mean a pregnant woman must stay on life support?

The anti-abortion movement is rallying around new laws that establish fetal 'personhood.' Doctors are scrambling to adjust, but even conservatives don't always agree on how they should be applied.

June 07, 2025
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  • Jess Mador
In this 2007 photograph, President George W. Bush holds Baron Mosima Loyiso Tantoh, 4, whose mother Kunene Tantoh, left, is HIV positive and who worked with a program for mothers with HIV in Cape Town that was supported by U.S. funds. At that time, Bush was asking Congress to approve $30 billion over the next five years for PEPFAR, the program that he'd established in 2003 to combat the spread of AIDS.

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  • Global Health

He led George W. Bush's PEPFAR program to stop AIDS. Now he fears for its future

Dr. Mark Dybul was an architect of PEPFAR, a program credited with saving 26 million lives. Now its future could be in jeopardy as Congress reviews the Trump administration's funding rescission memo.

June 06, 2025
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
People sign the final structural beam of the Crisis Stabilization Diagnostic Center before it was put into place on June 14 in Macon. The center will serve people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who need health care or are in crisis.

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  • Health Care

LISTEN: Primary and crisis care for people with disabilities soon to be available at Macon center

The center is a collaboration between the state, Macon’s River Edge Behavioral Health and Mercer University. 

June 06, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
A measles alert sign hangs outside the entrance to the Cohen Children's Medical Center, where the state health department confirmed that a baby tested positive and that there is a possibility of exposure to others at the facility, in New Hyde Park, New York, U.S., March 14, 2025. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

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  • Health

Another member of an Atlanta family contracted measles, bringing Georgia's total cases in 2025 to 5

As of June 6, the state has reported five cases of measles, more than half of which affected one Atlanta area family that contracted the disease outside the United States.

June 06, 2025
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Parrish Construction Group’s Charlie Griffis, center, speaks with architect Kamal Azar, right, and another visitor Thursday at the new River Edge Crisis Services and Diagnostic Center and Mercer University School of Medicine’s Center for IDD Care. (Liz Fabian/The Macon Newsroom)

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  • News

Macon is a new hub for crisis intervention, healthcare for developmentally disabled

Beginning this summer, adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities from across Georgia will travel to Macon for crisis services and routine medical care such as physical exams, mammograms and dentistry.

June 06, 2025
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By:
  • Liz Fabian and
  • The Macon Newsroom
A protestor marks International Overdose Awareness Day in Manhattan last August. Overdose deaths were down in recent months, and Democrats are questioning the wisdom of changing policies that are show progress.

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  • Mental Health

RFK Jr. is shrinking the agency that works on mental illness and addiction

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration has seen its staff cut by more than a third, and it's facing deep budget cuts. Progress on overdose deaths could be lost, experts warn.

June 06, 2025
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
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