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    COMIC: A Kids' Guide To Coping With The Pandemic (And A Printable Zine)

    Nov 17, 2020
    It's been months of the pandemic and you might be feeling frustrated or upset. But there are lots of different ways to deal with your worries — like giving yourself a big hug!
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    Simon Says
    U.S. President Donald Trump before being taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
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    Opinon: How Could The President Get The Coronavirus

    Oct 03, 2020
    NPR's Scott Simon talks about the president's diagnosis following months of his dismissing the growing, devastating pandemic.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    A health worker puts a nasal swab sample into a tube in a tent at a COVID-19 testing site at St. John's Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles.
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    COVID-19 Cases Continue To Surge In States Across The U.S.

    Jul 25, 2020
    There were more than 1,000 deaths in the U.S. for the fifth consecutive day Saturday.
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    KNPR's State of Nevada
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    Relief Provided - And Needed - By Cannabis Industry In COVID-19 Era

    Apr 15, 2020

    Everyone’s stuck at home. Anxiety about the coronavirus is high. So people are looking to take the edge off. 

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    The Salt
    Chef Tunde Wey uses food as a tool for social justice. His company, BabyZoos, aims to use profits from the sale of applesauce to hospitals to fund ventures that create more economic opportunities for African Americans in an effort to close racial wealth
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    Can Applesauce Help Close The Racial Health Gap? No, Wait, Hear This Chef Out

    Dec 17, 2019
    From infant mortality rates to access to cancer treatment, stark health disparities exist between blacks and whites. One Michigan experiment to address that starts with money made from hospital food.
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    Goats and Soda
    A woman collects wood from a river in Rangpur division, Bangladesh.
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    The Doctor Will Skype You Now: Virtual Checkups Reach Bangladesh's Isolated Islands

    Nov 06, 2019
    As residents of "char" islands grapple with poverty and climate change, they are often cut off from medical services. A new service could help.
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    Goats and Soda
    A woman rolls tobacco inside a tendu leaf to make a bidi cigarette at her home in Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. India's smokers favor cheaper options such as chewing and leaf-wrapped tobacco over cigarettes.
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    India Banned E-Cigarettes — But Beedis And Chewing Tobacco Remain Widespread

    Oct 09, 2019
    India is the world's top consumer of smokeless tobacco — and has the world's highest number of oral cavity cancers.
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    New Research: China Is Winning Some Health-Care Battles — And Losing Others

    Oct 05, 2019
    A suite of new research shows the country beating infectious diseases over the last two decades. But deaths from lifestyle-related diseases like cancer and diabetes are on the rise.
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    National
    Unless a federal court intervenes, Planned Parenthood says it will formally withdraw from the nation's family planning program for low-income people.
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    Planned Parenthood To Withdraw From Title X, Unless Court Intervenes

    Aug 14, 2019
    Planned Parenthood officials asked for a stay against new Trump administration rules that forbid organizations receiving Title X funds to provide or refer patients for abortion.
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    Clark County Leads The Nation In Syphilis Infections

    May 08, 2019

    Syphilis is on the rise again throughout Nevada, and it’s particularly widespread in Clark County. 

    How bad is it? The county’s infection rate is now the highest per capita in the U.S.  

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    World
    Some of the products on sale at Umesh Sonia's boutique in Mumbai include bottles of distilled cow urine, soap made from cow dung, floor disinfectant made from cow urine, under-eye gel and toothpaste made from cow excrement. This is part of a growing reta
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    In India, Ayurveda Is A Booming Business

    Apr 28, 2019
    Ayurvedic products and treatments based on ancient Indian healing practices are part of a multibillion-dollar industry. A yoga guru with ties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi has built a retail empire.
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    Goats and Soda
    Things in Venezuela are so bad that patients who are hospitalized must bring not only their own food but also medical supplies like syringes and scalpels as well as their own soap and water, a new report says.
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    Researchers Are Surprised By The Magnitude Of Venezuela's Health Crisis

    Apr 05, 2019
    A report from Johns Hopkins University and Human Rights Watch finds an alarming decline in the quality of health care across the country.
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    Law
    Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas in an undated photo.
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    From Cover-Ups To Secret Plots: The Murky History Of Supreme Justices' Health

    Jan 23, 2019
    Justice Ginsburg's recent surgery recalls more than two centuries of Supreme Court encounters with aging, nervous breakdowns, vanity, and triumphs over adversity.
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    How to pig out — healthily (ish)

    Aug 24, 2018

    It’s easy to eat healthy when you stick to restaurants that serve salads and grilled fish. But what about when you're in belly-bomb central?

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    Politics
    First lady Melania Trump announces her "Be Best" children's initiative on May 7.
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    First Lady Melania Trump Hospitalized After Treatment For Kidney Condition

    May 14, 2018
    A spokeswoman for the first lady says she will be hospitalized all week after undergoing a surgical procedure to treat a kidney condition.
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    Shots - Health News
    A spread of ointments, gauze, sterile water and other items stocked inside Prevention Point Philadelphia's mobile wound care unit.
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    Healing Drug Injection Wounds Can Help Get Care Closer To Patients

    Mar 28, 2018
    Infections from intravenous drug use are often hidden, under sleeves and beneath pants. These wounds of addiction may be buried in shame. They can also be serious, requiring surgery or constant care.
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    More Religious Leaders Challenge Silence, Isolation Surrounding Suicide

    Feb 11, 2018
    Many faith leaders are looking past suicide as a sin to help spot and support those suffering from mental health issues in their communities.
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    Goats and Soda
    Vietnam is the only country that comes even close to delivering the good life in a sustainable way. Above: rice fields on the outskirts of Hanoi.
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    If We Bring The Good Life To All, Will We Destroy The Planet?

    Feb 07, 2018
    A new study offers an intriguing way to calculate the answer.
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    National
    A service dog named Orlando rests on the foot of its trainer, John Reddan, while sitting inside a United Airlines plane at Newark Liberty International Airport during a training exercise last year. United Airlines wants to see more paperwork before passe
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    New Barking Orders For Documenting Support Animals Before Boarding Planes

    Feb 01, 2018
    Airlines are clarifying their policies on emotional support animals, requiring more documentation about the need for the animal. Recently, a woman tried to board a flight with a peacock.
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    Shots - Health News
    Maddie Holt, 5, was born with a rare genetic condition called Zellweger syndrome and is unable to walk or talk and can barely see or hear.
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    No Car, No Care? Medicaid Transport Program Faces Cuts In Some States

    Jan 27, 2018
    For more than 50 years, the health program for the poor and sick has been required to ferry some clients to and from medical appointments. But a few states say transport is currently too expensive.
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    From Polio To Poverty To Sex Ed: 9 Predictions For 2018

    Jan 03, 2018
    We asked doctors, researchers and aid workers to look into the future. Here's what they foresee.
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    Shots - Health News
    Nearly half of the federal funding has been cut for the navigator program that Shelli Quenga leads for South Carolina's Palmetto Project.
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    Reductions In Federal Funding For Health Law Navigators Cut Unevenly

    Oct 26, 2017
    North and South Carolina have very different outlooks since the Trump administration cut funding for the helpers who assist people signing up for health insurance.
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    The Salt
    Their hair is shorter and grayer now, but Liebman and Jacobson still are campaigning against too much salt in food. This photo was taken last year.
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    A Pioneer Of Food Activism Steps Down, Looks Back

    Sep 07, 2017
    Michael Jacobson invented a new style of food activism. For four decades, he led the fight against "junk food." He's now stepping down as president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
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    Around the Nation
    Volunteer escorts line up outside the EMW Women's Surgical Center in Louisville, Ky., ahead of a large anti-abortion-rights protest earlier this summer.
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    Kentucky Could Become The Only State Without A Clinic That Performs Abortions

    Sep 06, 2017
    A federal trial pits the last remaining clinic providing abortions in Kentucky against the state's Republican administration, which says the center failed to meet state health standards.
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    The Salt
    Today, veggie burgers are engineered to be more like meat than could have been conceived in the basement health-food stores of the 1980s or the sanitariums of a century prior.
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    The Rise Of Mock Meat: How Its Story Reflects America's Ever-Changing Values

    Sep 02, 2017
    Summer's coming to an end, and whether for health or ethical reasons, more people are flipping veggie burgers — which have come a long way since the sanitarium-created concoctions of the 19th century.

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