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News Articles: Public Health

Fine Fettle is one of only six businesses licensed by the state of Georgia to cultivate, manufacture, and dispense medical cannabis, with dispensaries across the state and an118,000 square-foot cultivation, processing, and manufacturing facility in Macon-Bibb County. Macon Mayor Lester Miller visited the facility on May 29, 2024.

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  • Health

Georgia medical marijuana advocates react to changes affecting card holders

The Georgia Department of Public Health has rolled out several changes to the how patients can access state’s medical cannabis cards. Advocates are responding to the changes. 

November 04, 2024
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
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
People getting the flu shot this year will be vaccinated against three commonly circulating strains instead of four, after one went extinct during the pandemic.

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  • Health

The flu shot is different this year, thanks to COVID

A strain of influenza appears to have disappeared from the planet since COVID. As a result, U.S. flu vaccines have been redesigned.

October 17, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Boden
Jeff and Donna Standridge (right and middle) and Keith Lowhorne (right) are all raising their grandchildren. More than 2.5 million children in the U.S. are raised by grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other extended family members — when their parents are unable to care for them.

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  • Health

A new way to support grandparents raising kids affected by the addiction epidemic

A pilot program in Alabama will distribute $280,000 from opioid settlement funds to support ‘grandfamilies’ formed to raise kids affected by the opioid epidemic.

October 15, 2024
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By:
  • Drew Hawkins
Kellyann Kaiser is a recovering opioid user who says she benefits from the new federal rules on methadone access.

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  • Health

New rules should make methadone easier to get, but change is slow in many places

An effective treatment for opioid addiction is easier to get after the Biden administration changed rules. That's making a difference for some people battling opioid use disorder, but access is still limited.

October 13, 2024
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By:
  • Karen Brown
Jerry Cahill has been flushing toilets as a volunteer since his studio in Asheville's River Arts District was destroyed by flooding from the remnants of Helene.

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  • National

With no running water, Asheville finds other ways to flush thousands of toilets

Since the remnants of Hurricane Helene hit Asheville, most of the city has been without running water. The people of Asheville have devised elaborate systems to stay clean and flush their toilets.

October 13, 2024
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By:
  • Joel Rose and
  • Rolando Arrieta
LGTBQ+ women face high rates of trauma and other mental health problems, a new report finds.

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  • Health

LGBTQ+ women face disproportionate rates of mental health issues and barriers to care

A new report finds that LGBTQ+ women in the U.S. experience high rates of trauma, mental illness, and other health conditions. And they're less likely to seek medical care.

October 08, 2024
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By:
  • Bec Roldan
A person carries bags of fresh water after filling up from a tanker at a distribution site in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Wednesday in Asheville, N.C.

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  • Health

In Asheville, N.C., many residents may be without drinking water for weeks

Tropical storm Helene caused 'catastrophic' damage to Asheville’s water treatment and distribution system, cutting off at least 70% of the city’s drinking water supply. 

October 04, 2024
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By:
  • Pien Huang
Bree Wallace works for the Tampa Bay Abortion Fund. The group uses donations to help people pay for abortion care in Florida, and to travel to other states, but has struggled financially to keep up with the demand. <br>

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  • Health

It's harder to pay and travel for abortion care and support funds are struggling

Financial aid funds that help women pay for abortions — or travel to other states to access care — are struggling financially, despite abortion's role in this year's elections.

October 03, 2024
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By:
  • Stephanie Colombini and
  • Elissa Nadworny
Nicole Fahey, six months pregnant, receives a Pfizer vaccination from a nurse on Nov. 3, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA.

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  • Health

Getting the COVID vaccine during pregnancy protects newborns from hospitalization

Babies under six months can't be vaccinated directly against COVID. A new study found that most infants hospitalized for COVID had mothers who didn’t get the vaccine while they were pregnant.

September 29, 2024
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By:
  • Jackie Fortier
<em>A new report from scientific experts finds that the gap between federal and state regulations on cannabis is leading to emerging problems with public health</em>

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  • Health

5 things to know from this week’s big report on cannabis

More Americans now use pot on a daily basis than alcohol. A sweeping new report says the federal government needs to better understand the risks to the public and get involved.

September 28, 2024
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By:
  • Pien Huang
Debra Ragoonanan, a nursing assistant, says she has endured PTSD after COVID killed dozens in 2020 at the Massachusetts veterans facility where she still works. The state agreed to a $56 million settlement for veterans and their families, but caretakers have gotten little assistance.

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  • Health

Nursing aides plagued by PTSD after ‘nightmare’ COVID conditions, with little help

Nursing aides feel abandoned as they grapple with mental and physical troubles that stem from their work during the COVID outbreak.

September 25, 2024
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By:
  • Amy Maxmen
Rats and people have long coexisted. Now research may find out a lot more about them

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  • Science

A 'golden age' of rat research may be here. What the often unwanted companions can teach us about us

Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in genomics and paleoarcheology, a lot more study may be on the horizon.

September 21, 2024
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By:
  • Nathan Rott
Stephanie, who asked that only her first name be used, picks up her methadone prescription at the Operation PAR clinic in Inverness, Florida.

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  • Health

For people with opioid addiction, Medicaid overhaul comes with risks

More than a million Americans use Medicaid to get addiction treatments like methadone. But as states update their systems, some patients have lost coverage. Even a short gap can be life-threatening.

September 16, 2024
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By:
  • Stephanie Colombini and
  • Kim Krisberg
John Brundahl (left), production superintendent, Todd Colvin, chief water systems operator, and Mark Toy, general manager, run the PFAS treatment plant at the Yorba Linda Water District in Orange County, Calif.

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  • Health

How a California county got PFAS out of its drinking water

Water utilities across the country will have to comply with EPA limits on "forever chemicals" in drinking water by 2029. Orange County, Calif., got a head start.

September 12, 2024
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  • Pien Huang
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