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News Articles: Public Health

Unlined coal ash landfills at Georgia Power's Plant Arkwright being consolidated into a single lined landfill on the bank of the Ocmulgee River in September of 2023. In addition to the liner, the new impoundment will collect any coal ash leachate for 30 years.

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  • Environment

What’s legal for closing Georgia’s coal ash ponds might hinge on one word: Infiltration

Some say that topdown solutions for Georgia’s coal ash ponds ignore depths of community health woes and the reality of how water flows.

April 11, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
EPA is limiting PFAS chemicals in drinking water in the U.S.

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  • Health

EPA puts limits on 'forever chemicals' in drinking water

PFAS chemicals have been used for decades to waterproof and stain-proof consumer products and are linked to health problems.

April 10, 2024
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By:
  • Pien Huang
Many young people who started vaping nicotine as teens several years ago haven't quit the habit, data show.

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  • Health

Young adults who started vaping as teens still can't shake the habit

Teen vaping is trending downwards these days. But data from Colorado and around the country show the generation that made Juul cool is still hooked on nicotine.

April 09, 2024
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By:
  • John Daley - Colorado Public Radio
An outbreak of bird flu is affecting dairy cows in the U.S.

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  • Health

What to know about the risks of the bird flu outbreak

Cattle are getting sick with H5N1, and one person got sick in Texas. How bad could this be for dairy farms? Could it spread among people? Here's what scientists are learning.

April 05, 2024
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By:
  • Will Stone
Many cities have older lead service lines connecting homes to the water system.

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  • Health

Lead in the drinking water is still a problem in the U.S. — especially in Chicago

The Windy City has the most lead pipes of any U.S. city. A study estimates that more than two-thirds of children there are exposed to lead in their home tap water.

April 03, 2024
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By:
  • Pien Huang

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  • Health

In Pennsylvania, she wants to hand out new syringes to save lives. But is it legal?

As billions from opioid settlements pour into states, Pennsylvania's efforts against addiction could be hamstrung because clean syringes could be considered illegal drug paraphernalia.

March 27, 2024
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By:
  • Ed Mahon of Spotlight PA and
  • Sarah Boden
The packaging on Kool brand's "non-menthol" cigarettes and its existing menthols are very similar. Anti-smoking activists argue this is a way to get around any ban on menthol cigarettes by appealing to consumers who like to smoke menthols.

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  • Health

With a federal menthol ban looming, tobacco companies push 'non-menthol' substitutes

The alternatives have a similar taste, packaging and marketing. Anti-smoking activists say this is a way to get around state and federal bans.

March 21, 2024
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
Melissa Wyaco supervises about two dozen public health nurses who search for patients across the Navajo Nation who have tested positive for or have been exposed to syphilis.

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  • Health

Native Americans are hardest hit by syphilis surge

Rates are so bad in Native American communities that public health experts have asked the federal government to declare an emergency. Inadequate prenatal care may be partly to blame.

March 21, 2024
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By:
  • Cecilia Nowell
Edible products advertised as containing delta-8 THC offered for sale at a smoke shop in Seattle in 2022. Teens can overdo it with products like these, health officials warn.

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  • News

Delta-8, an unregulated form of THC, is popular among high school students

Derived from hemp, it has similar effects to delta-9 THC, the main intoxicant in marijuana. It's fueling a rise in calls to poison control.

March 14, 2024
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
The new analysis of death certificates says the U.S. maternal mortality rate is in line with other wealthy countries, contradicting an earlier report from the CDC.

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  • Health

How bad is maternal mortality in the U.S.? A new study says it's been overestimated

The peer-reviewed study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology says a pregnancy checkbox on national death certificates inflates the death rate.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Kate Manne

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  • Health

In 'Unshrinking,' a writer discusses coming out as fat and pushing back against bias

Kate Manne tried to shrink her body for years before embracing her size as part of a "natural, normal human variation." She says the fight against fat phobia must start in the doctor's office.

March 13, 2024
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By:
  • Mara Gordon
A public health patch swen on a Girl Scout sash

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  • Health

Atlanta-area Girl Scouts work with CDC to create new public health patch

The David J. Sencer CDC Museum Public Health Academy partnered with Girl Scout Troop 14567 to produce a public health fun patch.

March 11, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Jon Kabat-Zinn is a leading researcher into the health effects of meditation. He developed the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction protocol in 1979.

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  • Health

A leading mindfulness teacher shares insights to counter tech addiction and isolation

Jon Kabat-Zinn, who brought mindfulness meditation into mainstream medical settings, discusses how the centering practice can help with some of today's widespread social problems.

March 10, 2024
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By:
  • Pien Huang
Results from a DNA sequencer used in the Human Genome Project.

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  • Health

'All of Us' research project diversifies the storehouse of genetic knowledge

The National Institutes of Health initiative that aims to make human genome research more inclusive reports its first results. Some 275 million new genetic variations have been identified.

March 08, 2024
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By:
  • Rob Stein
A digital illustration of a circle of hands extending from the edge of the image, each holding a sheet of paper. The papers overlap in the center and, like a puzzle, come together to reveal a drawing of a handgun.

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  • Health

Meet the public health researchers trying to rein in America's gun violence crisis

After the 1996 Dickey Amendment halted federal spending on gun violence research, a small group of academics pressed on, with little money or support. Now a new generation is taking up the charge.

March 08, 2024
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By:
  • Christine Spolar
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