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News Articles: Health

Morris Brown, a primary care physician, listens to Sarah McCutcheon’s heartbeat in the exam room at his medical office in Kingstree, South Carolina, which sits in a region that suffers from health care provider shortages and high rates of chronic diseases.

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  • Health

Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here's why there's so little progress

The United States has made almost no progress in closing racial health disparities despite promises, research shows. The government, some critics argue, is often the underlying culprit.

October 24, 2024
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By:
  • Fred Clasen-Kelly and
  • Renuka Rayasam
Fleetwood High School cheerleader Samantha Colelli, 17, a senior at Fleetwood, does a basket during halftime at a game in 2017. As cheerleading has become more ambitious over the last decade, it's also become riskier warn pediatricians.

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  • Health

Youth cheerleading is getting more athletic — and riskier

As the female-dominated sport gets more acrobatic, girls are racking up more concussions and other injuries. A new pediatricians' report calls for change.

October 24, 2024
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By:
  • Pien Huang
A McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder is shown on March 6, 2018, in Atlanta. The fast-food chain says customers should feel confident ordering from its restaurants despite a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to its Quarter Pounder hamburgers.

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  • Business

McDonald's tries to reassure customers after deadly E. coli outbreak

A preliminary investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration suggests fresh onions that are served raw on McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers were a likely source of contamination.

October 23, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Veronica, 17, of Des Moines, Iowa, with her estrogen pills. A new study shows a very low rate of regret among kids taking puberty blockers or hormones as part of gender-affirming care.

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  • Health

New research finds trans teens have high satisfaction with gender care

The survey published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that trans teens taking puberty blockers or hormones had very low rates of regret.

October 23, 2024
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Garment workers in Bangladesh protest for better working conditions.

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  • Global Health

Why the garment workers of Bangladesh are feeling poorer than ever

Their wages have always been low. With rising inflation and falling prices paid by Western companies for clothing, they're protesting for better pay — and hoping the new government will spur change.

October 23, 2024
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By:
  • Shamim Chowdhury
This 2014 photo made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a feeding female Anopheles funestus mosquito.

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  • Global Health

Egypt has been declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization

Egypt has been fighting malaria for nearly 100 years. WHO declares a country malaria-free when the disease has not been present for at least three consecutive years before the designation.

October 23, 2024
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
An aerial photograph from 2023 of the Rusayo camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Goma in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of thousands of Congolese have found refuge around Goma after fleeing fighting further north. Two new reports document a 'staggering' increase in rapes over the past year.

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  • Global Health

Why this country is seeing a 'staggering' increase in the number of rapes

New reports from Physicians for Human Rights and Doctors Without Borders document a "massive influx" of sexual violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. What can be done to stop it?

October 22, 2024
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
Seven out of 10 adults in the  U.S. say the future of the nation is a significant source of stress. The concern crosses party lines.

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  • Health

A divided country agrees: The election is stressing everyone out

A new poll from the American Psychological Association shows 7 out of 10 adults say the future of the Nation is a significant source of stress in their lives. And the results cross party lines.

October 22, 2024
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By:
  • Katia Riddle
A sign outside a McDonald's restaurant is seen in Pittsburgh, on June 25, 2019. E. coli food poisoning linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers has sickened at least 49 people in 10 states, including one person who died and 10 who were hospitalized.

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  • Health

1 dead, dozens sickened in E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders

E. coli food poisoning linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers has sickened at least 49 people in 10 states, including one person who died, federal health officials said.

October 22, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
In this Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, file photo, a patient receives an influenza vaccine in Mesquite, Texas. Amid all the focus on COVID-19 vaccinations, U.S. health experts have another plea: Don’t skip your flu shot. With U.S. schools and businesses reopened, international travel resuming and far less masking this fall, flu is likely to make a comeback.

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  • Health

Lower than average flu vaccine uptake in Georgia is not unexpected

According to reported flu vaccine uptake in the 2023-2024 season, only about 41% of Georgians got the shot.

October 22, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
When radiologists review mammograms for signs of breast cancer, they can also see arterial calcification in the breast, which is linked with cardiovascular disease risk.

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  • Health

What your mammogram can tell you about your cardiovascular health

Some clinics will now check your breast scan for arterial calcification, which can be a sign of heart disease risk. But questions remain about the approach.

October 22, 2024
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By:
  • Michelle Andrews
Dr. Stefan Khmil performs artificial insemination on a patient in his Clinic of Prof. Stefan Khmil in Ternopil, Ukraine, on July 12.

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  • Europe

As Ukraine's birth rate plunges, here's what one doctor is doing to reverse the trend

Ukraine is suffering from more than a Russian invasion. Births have plummeted. But many families with help from the government and doctors are trying to buck the trend and have a child in wartime.

October 22, 2024
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By:
  • Ashley Westerman
Samantha Hodge-Williams in 2006.

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  • National

She was terrified waiting for surgery. Then her anesthesiologist began to sing

As Samantha Hodge-Williams waited on the operating table for emergency surgery, she felt alone and scared. Then the anesthesiologist appeared.

October 22, 2024
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By:
  • Laura Kwerel
Aleah Martin, 8, right, and her cousin Riley Boyd, 12, play in the crown of a pecan tree blown down by Hurricane Helene in Aleah’s yard in Dublin, Ga.

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  • Mental Health

Hurricane survivors continue to struggle with anxiety, fear, anger amidst storm season

The Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA is still connecting people in Valdosta to behavioral health crisis services. 

October 21, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge

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  • Health

Stress isn't all bad. Here's when it can help

You can't eliminate stress, but you can manage it better and sometimes even make it a force for good. That means reframing how you think about it.

October 21, 2024
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  • Allison Aubrey
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