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Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom presents his revised 2025-2026 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

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  • National

These Democratic governors are trying to curb health care for unauthorized immigrants

After expanding state Medicaid programs to cover people in the country without legal status, Democrats are considering changes that would reduce immigrant access.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Dana Ferguson and
  • Laura Fitzgerald
A selection of eye drops line a shelf at a pharmacy in Los Angeles in December 2023.

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  • Health

AvKare recalls over-the-counter eye drops after FDA audit

Customers are encouraged to stop using several eye irritation products, including gels and artificial tears.

May 15, 2025
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By:
  • Alana Wise
Towana Looney (right) and her daughter Tytian at NYU Langone Health in New York.

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  • Health

Recipient of pig kidney transplant reaches a milestone

An Alabama grandmother who was the first patient to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney more than two months ago is now the longest surviving recipient of a pig organ.

January 30, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Key guidance to industry on enhancing diversity in clinical trials of cancer drugs disappeared from the Food and Drug Administration website.

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  • Health

The FDA pulls key DEI initiative for cancer studies from its website

A Food and Drug Administration project to promote diversity in clinical studies of cancer treatments was removed from the agency's website, as the Trump administration halts DEI initiatives.

January 25, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Justice, center, points to a number on the board game in front of her.

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  • Children's Health

Georgia Tech’s 3D printer helps a Georgia girl breathe on her own

A team of Georgia Tech engineers developed a custom 3-D printed splint to support a newborn's airway, like an internal cast that dissolves as the trachea strengthens. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is one of only five hospitals in the nation offering this surgery.

August 29, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
A dose of MDMA. The drug has been studied as a treatment for PTSD and FDA has declined to approve it so far, asking for further research.

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  • Health

FDA gives thumbs down to MDMA for now, demanding further research

The much-anticipated decision has rattled supporters of psychedelic therapies. The drugmaker says it will ask the agency to reconsider.

August 10, 2024
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By:
  • Will Stone
This image provided by Eli Lilly shows the company's new Alzheimer’s drug Kisunla.  The Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly’s Kisunla on Tuesday for mild or early cases of dementia caused by Alzheimer’s.

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  • Health

FDA approves a second Alzheimer's drug that can modestly slow disease

The approval of Eli Lilly's Kisunla provides a new option for patients in the early stages of the incurable, memory-destroying ailment.

July 02, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
MDMA or ecstasy is under consideration for FDA approval for treating PTSD but it's future is uncertain.

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  • Health

Trouble for ecstasy? What MDMA’s FDA setback could mean for psychedelics

Psychedelics researchers and investors are still reeling from last week’s no vote for MDMA by a panel of advisers to the FDA.

June 14, 2024
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  • Will Stone
Tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease and babesiosis are spreading in the U.S.

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  • Health

Once called Nantucket fever, this nasty tick-borne illness is on the rise

Once called Nantucket fever, the tick-borne illness babesios is spreading from the Northeast into the Midwest. A clinical trial starts this month to see if an anti- malaria drug can treat the disease.

June 10, 2024
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  • Allison Aubrey
Later this year, the FDA plans to decide whether MDMA can be used to treat PTSD

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  • Science

Misconduct claims may derail MDMA psychedelic treatment for PTSD

People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may soon have a new treatment option: MDMA, the chemical found in ecstasy. In August, the Food and Drug Administration plans to decide whether MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD will be approved for market based on years of research. But serious allegations of research misconduct may derail the approval timeline.

NPR science reporter Will Stone talks to host Emily Kwong about the clinical trials on MDMA-assisted therapy research and a recent report questioning the validity of the results.

Read Will's full story here.

June 03, 2024
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By:
  • Will Stone,
  • Emily Kwong,
  • and 2 more
Sheryl J. Moore has been advocating for the past decade to update the rules about gay men donating tissue since she lost her eldest son, Alexander “AJ” Betts Jr., to suicide in 2013 and his corneas went to waste.

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  • Health

Gay and bisexual men can donate blood and organs but not tissue like corneas

Federal regulations prevent the donations, including of ligaments, and blood vessels. Advocates say this needs to change.

May 24, 2024
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  • Rae Ellen Bichell
Austin's Ascension Seton Medical Center is among the hospitals affected by a nationwide cybersecurity breach of Ascension technology systems.

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  • Health

How the Ascension cyberattack is disrupting care at hospitals

With IT systems down, staff at Ascension have to use manual processes they left behind some 20 years ago. It's the latest in a string of attacks on health care systems that house private patient data.

May 23, 2024
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By:
  • Olivia Aldridge
In college, Amylyx cofounders Josh Cohen and Justin Klee dreamed of finding a treatment for diseases like ALS. When their drug's promise did not pan out, they pulled it voluntarily from the market.

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  • Medical Treatments

Lots of drug companies talk about putting patients first — but this one actually did

When Amylyx Pharmaceuticals found out its ALS drug Relyvrio didn't work, the company took the unusual step of voluntarily pulling it off the market.

May 15, 2024
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
Alondra Mercado, a community health worker with the Central California Asthma Collaborative, helps provide services through an ambitious California Medicaid initiative. On a recent morning in March, she visited a family in Turlock to teach a mother how to control in-home asthma triggers that cause flare-ups in her young son.

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  • Health

California's $12 billion Medicaid experiment stretches the definition of health care

The state covers basic services for vulnerable residents, including things like air purifiers for kids with asthma. But nonprofits offering the services struggle to work within the health care system.

May 14, 2024
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By:
  • Angela Hart
Weight-loss drugs like Semaglutide have skyrocketed in popularity among Americans.

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  • Arts & Life

Have the new weight-loss drugs changed what it means to be body positive?

America is a land of contradictions; while we're known as a nation that loves to eat, we also live within a culture that has long valued thinness as the utmost beauty standard.

Over the last several years the body positivity movement has pushed back on that notion. But then came a new class of weight-loss drugs.

New York Magazine contributing writer Samhita Mukhopadhyay grapples with the possible future of a movement like this in her recent article, So Was Body Positivity All A Big Lie?

She joins All Things Considered host Juana Summers to discuss the ever-evolving conversation on health, size, and whose business that is in the first place.

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Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

May 14, 2024
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