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News Articles: Public Health

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  • Health

New Covid shots may be hard to come by for uninsured Georgians

Updated COVID vaccines, slated to hit shelves, could come with serious sticker shock for more than a million Georgians who don’t have health insurance. 

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine
 Indiana’s state fair will bring animals from across the state together. Experts say it poses a risk for the spread of bird flu

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  • Health

Could bird flu spread at state fairs? Here’s why health experts advise caution

Corn dogs, deep-fried Twinkies, butter sculptures and influenza virus? Here’s why state fairs could be potential breeding grounds for viral mutation.

September 04, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Thorp
Without working streetlights in parts of Yamacraw Village, Detraya Gilliard had only the crescent moon’s glow to search for her daughter Desaray in May 2022. She passed yards dotted with clotheslines and power lines, and a broken-down playground littered with juice boxes and red Solo cups.(Renuka Rayasam/KFF Health News)

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  • News

A teen’s murder, mold in the walls: Unfulfilled promises haunt public housing

For years, federal lawmakers have failed to deliver the money needed to fix derelict public housing, leaving tenants — mostly people of color and families with low incomes — living with mold and gun violence that has had lasting health consequences.

August 26, 2024
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By:
  • Fred Clasen-Kelly and
  • Renuka Rayasam
Anti-abortion protesters stand outside of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July. Wisconsin reverted to an 1800s abortion ban when <em>Roe </em>was overturned. The courts have since reinstated some abortion access in Wisconsin.

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  • Health

Insurance refused to pay for her abortion, even when her life was at stake

Insurance coverage for abortion care in the U.S. is a hodgepodge. And the proliferation of abortion bans in various states has exacerbated the confusion.

August 26, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Varney
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  • Health

Houston County to offer monthly public health screenings at family resource space

A partnership between Houston County Schools and the county health department is bringing primary health care closer to where children, and their adults, spend time.

August 23, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Coastal Health District director Dr. Bonzo Reddick speaks at a news conference at the Chatham County Health Department in Savannah on Friday about public health risks in the wake of Tropical Storm Debby.

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  • Health

Coastal Georgia health experts warn of waterborne, mosquito-borne illness threat from Debby flooding

Chatham County's mosquito control fleet is working more than usual to spray insecticides.

August 19, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
The palms of a patient with mpox during a past outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997. The country is now seeing a dramatic spike in mpox.

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  • Global Health

WHO declares 2024 mpox surge a 'public health emergency of international concern'

"What we're seeing is tip of the iceberg" because of weaknesses in the surveillance system, says Dr. Dimie Ogoina, chair of the WHO's emergency committee.

August 14, 2024
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
Monica Vera-Schubert says she's tormented by the question of whether her son Bobby would be alive if the overdose reversal drug Narcan had been easily accessible in his UCLA dorm room.  She keeps a "Museum of Bobby" in her living room.

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  • Health

Her son died of an overdose in his dorm room. Where was the Narcan?

Drug overdoses on college campuses are not tracked, and rarely publicized, as colleges cite health privacy laws. But advocates are working to make overdose reversal treatment widely available on campus.

August 13, 2024
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  • Yuki Noguchi
Nurses attend to patients in this historical photo of the children's ward inside Wheatley-Provident Hospital, a Black hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. It opened in 1918, but, like most Black hospitals, it closed following the federal campaign to desegregate hospitals in the 1960s.

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  • Health

Black hospitals vanished in the U.S. decades ago. Some communities have paid a price

Hundreds of Black hospitals in the U.S. closed after passage of the Civil Rights Act when health care became integrated. Black communities lost a source of employment and pride.

August 10, 2024
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  • Lauren Sausser
Olympic sprinter Noah Lyles is the latest famous American to get COVID in this summer's surge. Lyles won a bronze medal in the 200-meter race despite an active COVID infection. Masks continue to be a good idea in risky situations.

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  • Health

Is COVID endemic yet? Yep, says the CDC. Here's what that means

The nation — and Olympic athletes, like Noah Lyles — are in another summer surge of COVID infections. CDC officials say the virus has become endemic. That means it is here to stay in a predictable way.

August 09, 2024
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  • Rob Stein
Coca-Cola is a major sponsor of the Olympics.

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  • Health

Public health advocates push Olympics to drop Coca-Cola sponsorship

The soft-drink giant is one of the Olympics' biggest sponsors. But advocates argue pushing sugary beverages promotes obesity and diabetes worldwide, and is inconsistent with the values of the games.

August 09, 2024
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  • Ronnie Cohen
A barn near Pablo, Montana with the Mission Mountains in the distance. Western Montana is experiencing more frequent heat waves, and officials are concerned about health impacts on isolated rural residents.

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  • Health

In Montana, 911 calls reveal hidden impact of heat waves on rural seniors

Researchers are helping Missoula county officials learn who’s calling 911 during heat waves. Rural callers are disproportionately affected, prompting emergency planners to rethink their approach.

August 07, 2024
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By:
  • Aaron Bolton
The study also found high rates of suicidal thoughts and sexual violence among teens.

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  • Health

We're not 'out of the woods' in the youth mental health crisis, a CDC researcher says

The latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey says 40% of high school students report feeling persistently sad and hopeless. Still, that's down from 42% two years ago, a small but significant change.

August 07, 2024
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
 The abortion pill regimen, including mifepristone, pictured, and misoprostol is how most of the study respondents reported handling their self-managed abortions.

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  • Health

Abortion with no medical help? It nearly doubled in 2023, study shows

A study looks at the rate of self-managed abortion since Roe v. Wade fell. The study found that the use of mifepristone to self-manage abortion has nearly doubled from 6.6% in 2021 to 11.0% in 2023.

August 05, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Varney
Bird flu continues to spread among dairy cattle. And new research shows there may be more cases among farm workers than health officials have confirmed to date.

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  • Health

Bird flu cases among farm workers may be going undetected, a study suggests

Dairy workers in Texas show signs of prior, uncounted bird flu infections in a new study. Without better surveillance, researchers warn that health officials could be caught off guard if the virus gets more contagious.

July 31, 2024
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  • Amy Maxmen
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