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Heather Carll returned to teaching special education after Hawaii began offering special educators $10,000 more a year. She teaches at Momilani Elementary School in Pearl City.

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  • Education

Schools are struggling to hire special education teachers. Hawaii may have found a fix

In Hawaii, hiring qualified special education teachers became a lot easier after schools started offering a $10,000 pay bump.

April 21, 2022
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  • Dylan Peers McCoy

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  • On Aging

Yvonne van Amerongen: How can we reimagine elder care around human connection?

In a small village, residents enjoy time at the pub, the theater, and the park—all while living with dementia. Yvonne van Amerongen shares how we can reimagine dementia care with a social approach.

April 08, 2022
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By:
  • Manoush Zomorodi,
  • Katie Monteleone,
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Staci Cowan has been a certified recovery mentor at Bridges to Change for the past three years, most recently working at its drop-in center called Club Hope.

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  • Health

Oregon has funding for addiction recovery programs, but not enough employees

The state of Oregon is channeling millions of dollars into addiction recovery programs due to a law that passed in 2020. But the state is having trouble finding the workforce to fill these jobs.

March 28, 2022
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By:
  • Katia Riddle
Lara and Trey Garey stand at the bedside of Tom Garey, an Air Force veteran with advanced ALS. Trey, 19, has spent much of his teenage years caring for his father at their Texas home.

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  • Health

Finding help for teens who grow up caregiving for their disabled military parents

More than two million American children and teenagers live with a wounded or ill military parent. Many help with their care and face challenges like stress, anxiety and social isolation.

March 07, 2022
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By:
  • Carson Frame
The American Rescue Plan Act that President Biden signed into law increased funding to Medicaid, but delays and red tape have kept several states from claiming much of the cash almost a year later.

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  • Health

Why billions in Medicaid funds for people with disabilities are being held up

Almost a year after the American Rescue Plan Act allocated up to $25 billion to home and community-based services run by Medicaid, many states have yet to access the funds due to delays and red tape.

March 02, 2022
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By:
  • Lauren Weber and
  • Andy Miller
Nurse's aide Patricia Johnson has worked for the Ambassador Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on the north side of Chicago for nearly 24 years. The pandemic has been grueling on her and her colleagues. "The hardest part is watching people die alone without their families," says Johnson, who now sometimes works double shifts due to staff shortages.

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  • Health

The pandemic pummeled long-term care – it may not recover quickly, experts warn

Hundreds of thousands of nursing home workers have quit since the pandemic began, and the ones still working suffer from burnout. Industry leaders worry the system is fracturing.

February 22, 2022
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
Dr. Mai Pham is an internist and former senior Medicare and Medicaid official with degrees from Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities, but she still struggled to find care for her son with autism, Alex Roodman.

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  • Health

Kids with autism struggle to adapt to adulthood. One doctor is trying to change that

Dr. Mai Pham left a corporate career to spark change in a system that is failing millions of Americans with autism and other intellectual and developmental disabilities.

February 12, 2022
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By:
  • Noam Levey
Gene Cox speaks with Brenda Konkel, president of Occupy Madison and executive director of Madison Area Care for the Homeless OneHealth. Occupy Madison provides tiny houses for people experiencing homelessness in Madison, Wisconsin.

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  • Health

Tiny homes, big dreams: How some activists are reimagining shelter for the homeless

From hand-built wooden sheds to Conestoga huts to prefab shelters, tiny homes are cropping up to get people off the streets, especially during the cold of winter and amid the pandemic.

February 06, 2022
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  • Giles Bruce
Brothers Chase Miller (left), 10, and Carson Miller, 11, in November 2021. The two brothers have a rare genetic disorder and are immunocompromised. Their family has to practice extreme caution to prevent coronavirus exposures.

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  • Health

There's one population that gets overlooked by an 'everyone will get COVID' mentality

The roughly 7 million Americans who are immunocompromised — including many people with disabilities — live with much higher risk of COVID-19, and near-constant vigilance.

January 26, 2022
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  • Lesley McClurg
Evusheld is a treatment authorized for prevention of COVID-19 in people who are seriously immunocompromised or who have had serious adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines.

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  • Health

Hospitals use a lottery to allocate scarce COVID drugs for the immunocompromised

So far the government has distributed about 300,000 doses of Evusheld, a new drug that protects against COVID-19. Some 7 million Americans could benefit from the drug right away.

January 25, 2022
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  • Pien Huang
Yaritza Martinez developed a Zika virus infection in 2016 when she was pregnant with her son Yariel, who is now 5 years old. Yariel is enrolled in a long-term study following a group of babies in the U.S. and in Colombia to see how they have been developing.

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  • Health

5 years later, researchers assess how children exposed to Zika are developing

Subtle developmental differences in children whose brains seemed normal at birth underscore the need to follow children long term — a lesson that may be key for babies exposed to COVID-19.

December 27, 2021
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
(from left) Kevin Dedner founded Hurdle, a mental health startup that pairs patients with therapists. Ashlee Wisdom's company, Health in Her Hue, connects women of color with culturally sensitive medical providers. Nathan Pelzer's Clinify Health analyzes data to help doctors identify at-risk patients in underserved areas. Erica Plybeah's firm, MedHaul, arranges transport to medical appointments.

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  • Health

How Black tech entrepreneurs are tackling health care's race gap

Determined to improve the way doctors connect with their patients, a new wave of innovators are using technology to match people of color with culturally competent professionals.

November 29, 2021
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By:
  • Cara Anthony
Danyelle Clark-Gutierrez and her service dog, Lisa, shop for food at a grocery store. Clark-Gutierrez got the yellow Labrador retriever to help her cope with post-traumatic stress disorder after she experienced military sexual trauma while serving in the Air Force.

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  • Health

More veterans with PTSD will soon get help from service dogs. Thank the 'PAWS' Act

Service dogs have long helped veterans with vision or mobility problems. Now the PAWS Veterans Therapy Act will help connect specially trained dogs to some veterans with symptoms of traumatic stress.

November 26, 2021
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By:
  • Stephanie O'Neill
Protesters take part in the Women's March and Rally for Abortion Justice in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 2. The demonstration targeted Senate Bill 8, a state law that bans nearly all abortions as early as six weeks in a pregnancy, making no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest.

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  • Health

How the Texas ban on most abortions is harming survivors of rape and incest

The Texas law has no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest. Social workers say that's hurting some survivors financially, psychologically and physically.

November 16, 2021
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez

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  • Health

New clues to the biology of long COVID are starting to emerge

Scientists have begun to find abnormalities in the immune systems of some long-COVID patients that might help explain the syndrome, at least in some people. But there is still much more to learn.

November 12, 2021
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  • Rob Stein
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