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    Inauguration Day: Live Updates
    President Joe Biden is directing the U.S. to rejoin the international Paris Climate Agreement, which aims to cut global greenhouse gas emissions. Here, activists rally on Dec. 12, 2015.
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    Biden Moves To Have U.S. Rejoin Climate Accord

    Jan 20, 2021
    President Biden signed an executive order to have the country reenter the Paris Climate Agreement, less than four months after formally withdrawing.
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    Inauguration Day: Live Updates
    President Biden has vowed quick action on climate change, appointing the largest climate staff of any president.
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    Biden To Move Quickly On Climate Change, Reversing Trump Rollbacks

    Jan 20, 2021
    President Biden has set his sights on more than 100 Trump administration environmental rollbacks as well as plans to rejoin the international climate accord.
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    Shots - Health News
    Once the rules for implementing it are worked out, a bill signed into federal law in December will eliminate the required five-month waiting period for diagnosed ALS patients to begin disability benefits, enabling quicker Medicare coverage as well.
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    ALS Patients To Gain Quicker Access To Disability Benefits And Medicare

    Jan 20, 2021
    Lou Gehrig's disease can take months to diagnose, then rapidly incapacitate patients, leaving many families bankrupt before disability payments and Medicare kick in. A recent law aims to change that.
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    Shots - Health News
    An illustration shows medical student Elizabeth Blackwell at Geneva Medical College (later Hobart College) in upstate New York, as she eyes a note dropped onto her arm by a male student, during a lecture in the college's operating room.
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    'Doctors Blackwell' Tells The Story Of 2 Pioneering Sisters Who Changed Medicine

    Jan 19, 2021
    Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to earn her medical degree. Her sister Emily followed in her footsteps. Janice Nimura tells the story of the "complicated, prickly" trailblazers.
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    Science
    Baltimore is struggling to pay for the massive infrastructure and public health costs associated with global warming. As in many cities, flood risk has dramatically increased as the Earth has gotten hotter.
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    Supreme Court Considers Baltimore Suit Against Oil Companies

    Jan 19, 2021
    Overwhelmed sewers. Flooded streets. Deadly heat waves. Baltimore is one of many American cities where the costs of climate change far exceed local resources. Should oil companies pay?
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    Mental Health

    Researches Show Efficacy Of Personalized Brain Stimulation In Psychiatric Treatments

    Jan 18, 2021
    Two new studies show the potential of personalized brain stimulation to treat psychiatric disorders. The approach delivers pulses of electric or magnetic energy to certain areas in the brain.
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    Space
    In this image provided by NASA, the core stage for the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System rocket is seen at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The four engines fired for a little more than one minute.
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    NASA's 8-Minute Rocket Test Shuts Down After 67 Seconds

    Jan 17, 2021
    The test was for NASA's Space Launch System, a successor to the retired Space Shuttle program. It takes eight minutes to generate the power needed to get to space, and ultimately to the moon.
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    Shots - Health News
    People lined up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site in Disneyland's parking lot in Anaheim, Calif. on Jan. 13. The state says all residents 65 or older are now eligible to receive the vaccine.
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    OPINION: Moral Tragedy Looms In Early Chaos Of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

    Jan 16, 2021
    As states suddenly expand the categories of people eligible for the first scarce shipments of vaccine, who will be watching to make sure those hit hardest by the pandemic aren't left behind?
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    Medical Treatments
    The Trump administration's decision to relax rules regarding the prescription of buprenorphine comes as record-level drug overdose deaths occurred in the U.S. in the 12 months ending in June 2020.
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    Trump Administration Will Let More Doctors Prescribe Drug To Fight Opioid Addiction

    Jan 15, 2021
    The change means that doctors will no longer need a special federal waiver in order to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication to treat opioid use disorder.
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    TED Radio Hour
    Caro Verbeek speaks on the TEDx stage in Gronigen, Netherlands.
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    Caro Verbeek: What Can The Scents Of The Past Tell Us About Our History?

    Jan 15, 2021
    Each day, we breathe about 22,000 times--and all that time we smell. Scent historian Caro Verbeek recreates scents of the past. She says, just like music and art, smell is a part of our heritage.
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    Environment
    Aircraft largely stayed on the ground in spring 2020, leading to a drop in greenhouse gas emissions.
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    Pandemic Causes Historic — But Fleeting— Drop In U.S. Climate Emissions

    Jan 14, 2021
    As Americans stayed home during the pandemic, cars and planes produced less heat-trapping emissions. But the effect is only temporary.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Dulles International Airport last month. The CDC will require all air passengers entering the U.S. to provide a negative COVID-19 test before boarding their flight.
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    CDC Requires COVID-19 Test From Air Passengers Entering The U.S.

    Jan 12, 2021
    Starting Jan. 26, airlines will only allow people to board if they provide documentation that they tested negative in the preceding three days or have recovered from the disease.
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    Shots - Health News
    Staff and residents of the Ararat Nursing Facility in the Mission Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles got COVID-19 shots on Jan. 7. Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths have been surging throughout Los Angeles County.
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    Why You Should Still Wear A Mask And Avoid Crowds After Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine

    Jan 12, 2021
    It takes time after vaccination for immunity to the virus to build up, and no vaccine is 100% effective. Plus, scientists don't yet know if the vaccine stops viral spread. Here's what's known so far.
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    Planet Money
    Babe Ruth, a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, in 1918. That year, World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic slashed MLB game attendance by over half from what it was in the previous season.
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    What 1919 Teaches Us About Pent-Up Demand

    Jan 12, 2021
    A hundred years ago, a world war and a pandemic wreaked havoc on baseball and other industries. But pent-up demand helped them come roaring back.
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    Health
    Two gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park (but not necessarily these two) tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday. A zoo statement says the apes have mild symptoms but are doing well.
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    2 Gorillas In California Contract The Coronavirus

    Jan 11, 2021
    Gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park developed a cough last week. The apes were tested and found to have the virus. It may have come through a human staffer, despite precautions.
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    Insurrection At The Capitol: Live Updates
    In March 2018, a White House military aide carries the "football," a system that allows President Trump to launch a nuclear strike at any time.
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    Pelosi Asks Military To Limit Trump's Nuclear Authority. Here's How That System Works

    Jan 08, 2021
    The House speaker told colleagues she had spoken with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about keeping the nuclear codes from an "unhinged President."
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    Science
    A new EPA rule will make it more difficult for the regulators to use some scientific studies about the connection between pollution and health.
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    Trump EPA Erects New Barriers To Crucial Science

    Jan 05, 2021
    Studies based on private health data are crucial to understanding dangers posed by pollution. A new rule makes it harder for the EPA to consider many studies when setting safeguards.
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    Shots - Health News
    <em>Keep Sharp,</em> by Sanjay Gupta
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    To 'Keep Sharp' This Year, Keep Learning, Advises Neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta

    Jan 04, 2021
    CNN's chief medical correspondent says it's never too late to develop new brain pathways. Even small changes, like switching up the hand you use to hold your fork, can help optimize brain health.
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    Shots - Health News
    Fear of having to go to the ER during a pandemic might have led kids with asthma to be more careful about regularly using their "controller" inhalers, researchers suspect. But that's likely only one factor in the decline in ER visits.
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    What Drove The Drop In Kids' Asthma ER Visits At A Boston Hospital During Lockdown?

    Jan 04, 2021
    Boston Children's Hospital saw a precipitous drop in cases during the spring shutdown, and the trend continues. Researchers are asking why — and what it would take to keep up the change post-pandemic.
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    Science

    Infectious Diseases Expert: No Evidence New Coronavirus Variant Is Any Deadlier

    Jan 02, 2021
    NPR's Michel Martin discusses coronavirus mutations with physician Matt McCarthy, author of Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    Ambulances are parked outside the NHS Nightingale hospital at the ExCeL center in east London on Friday. Hospitals in the U.K. are preparing for an influx of patients as the coronavirus continues to spread.
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    U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Tops 350,000

    Jan 02, 2021
    Health care workers are bracing for a deadly January, and President-elect Joe Biden cautioned that "the next few weeks and months are going to be very tough."
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    Health

    Why The COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Has Gotten Off To A Slow Start

    Jan 01, 2021
    The rollout of vaccines for COVID-19 has been slower than expected. Reasons include local logistics, lack of funding and staffing struggles during the winter holidays.
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    The Picture Show
    Crews observe the continuing eruption in Halema'uma'u at Kilauea in the early morning of Dec. 28. Overnight, the western vent in the wall of Halema'uma'u continued to erupt.
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    Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Eruption Creates 600-Foot-Deep Lava Lake

    Dec 31, 2020
    The volcano on Hawaii's Big Island began erupting more than a week ago and lava continues to flow, creating a huge new lake that's taken the place of a water lake it vaporized.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    The U.S. is unlikely to meet its goal of vaccinating 20 million Americans by the end of the year, health officials said this week.
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    U.S. Likely Will Miss Goal Of Vaccinating 20 Million By The New Year

    Dec 31, 2020
    Leaders of the nation's federal vaccine effort, called Operation Warp Speed, said the U.S. has deployed around 14 million vaccine doses as of Wednesday with just 2.1 million Americans vaccinated.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks at the newly authorized AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine.
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    U.K. Approves AstraZeneca-Oxford Coronavirus Vaccine

    Dec 30, 2020
    The British government has ordered 100 million doses, enough to vaccinate 50 million residents.

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