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News Articles: Health

Do your ankles feel like a buffet these days? Test your knowledge of tactics to prevent bites.

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  • Your Health

Want to make yourself less appealing to mosquitoes? Our quiz has surprising ideas

Level up your knowledge of mosquito bite prevention with our quiz. It's full of surprising, science-backed tactics that may save you from getting eaten alive this summer.

July 08, 2025
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By:
  • Andee Tagle and
  • Malaka Gharib
Federal health officials are investigating the University of Michigan Health system after a former employee claimed she was fired for seeking a religious exemption from providing gender-affirming care.

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  • Health

Feds investigate hospitals over religious exemptions from gender-affirming care

A physician assistant claimed she was fired by a Michigan hospital for seeking a religious exemption regarding gender-affirming care. Now the federal government is also investigating.

July 08, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Wells
A selfie of George King and his wife on a balcony

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  • Health

New Alzheimer's disease medication is helping this Georgia man's quality of life

An Atlanta man is among the first being treated with a new medication designed to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

July 07, 2025
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
The Center for Asbestos Related Disease, or CARD Clinic, in Libby, Montana, provides free lung screenings for breathing issues and cancers tied to asbestos exposure. CARD's doors were shuttered by a lawsuit brought by BNSF Railway on behalf of the federal government. <br>

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  • Health

Near old Montana mine, special clinic for asbestos-related illness fights to survive

The Center for Asbestos Related Disease in Libby, Montana, closed in May after a court judgment. The clinic's federal funding is also threatened. Patients with scarred lungs worry about what's next.

July 07, 2025
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By:
  • Aaron Bolton
Two blighted houses sit off of Pursley Street in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, in Macon, Georgia. Pleasant Hill residents are expected to live two decades less than Macon-Bibb County’s richest area, Idle Hour, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Katie Tucker/The Telegraph

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  • News

5 miles from Macon’s richest neighborhood, Pleasant Hill faces troubling life expectancy

While Macon-Bibb County has made strides to support its low income neighborhoods, Pleasant Hill still lacks healthy food options and grocery stores.

July 07, 2025
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By:
  • Jesse Fraga and
  • The Telegraph
Seed oils, commonly called vegetable oils, are extracted from the seeds of plants.

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  • Your Health

Are seed oils actually bad for your health? Here's the science behind the controversy

Health Secretary RFK Jr. has said vegetable oils, like canola and soybean, are "poisoning Americans." But many researchers say the evidence isn't there. So, what does the science say about seed oils?

July 07, 2025
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By:
  • Maria Godoy
Ukura Midar, 88, had to leave his family's house in 2017 because of construction for a new pipeline project. Now living in a settlement called Kyakaboga, 15 miles from the place he had called home for decades, he says that he is cut off from the graves of several family members, including three of his children, which lie behind a fence.

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  • Health

The hidden cost of oil: Families fractured by a pipeline project

As the 900-mile East African Crude Oil Pipeline project takes shape in Uganda, there is the promise of economic benefit. But it's shaking up the lives of some 100,000 people.

July 07, 2025
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By:
  • Willem Marx
Though most flu vaccines don't include the preservative thimerosal, advisers to the CDC have recommended against using it.

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  • Health

4 things to know about the vaccine ingredient thimerosal

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal. Why is the additive, safely used since the 1930s, being questioned again?

July 06, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin

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  • Health

Protection from sun's cancer-causing UV rays requires more than sunscreen, dermatologists say

On this Fourth of July holiday, dermatologists are reminding folks that everyone's skin — regardless of melanin, or pigment — can develop skin cancer from exposure to the sun.

July 04, 2025
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Some current CDC employees at the protest wore surgical masks with blue masking tape to symbolize what some called their inability to speak out about changes art the CDC.

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  • Health

As FY 2026 budget moves through Congress, CDC cuts threaten public health in Georgia

Former directors of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are raising the alarm ahead of budget talks. 

July 03, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
A woman holds a pink signs that says, "save our lilves ... don't gut medicaid"

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  • Health

Southern Poverty Law Center report names 5 Georgia counties with most Medicaid recipients

Access to Medicaid in the Deep South is a crucial lifeline because the region has one of the highest percentages of people living in poverty in the United States, according to the SPLC report.

July 03, 2025
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey is among 19 Republican governors of states that stand to lose federal Medicaid funds if Congress passes the tax bill with proposed cuts to the program.

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  • Health

GOP governors stay silent amid plans to slash Medicaid spending in their states

In 2017, when President Trump tried to repeal Obamacare and roll back Medicaid coverage, Republican governors rallied against it. Now, as Trump tries again to scale back Medicaid, they've gone quiet.

July 03, 2025
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By:
  • Phil Galewitz
A continuous glucose monitor helps people track their blood sugar spikes and dips.

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  • Your Health

Are you a glucose 'dipper'? Here's how to fix those blood sugar highs and lows

After a meal, some people experience high spikes in blood sugar followed by crashing lows. This can cause fatigue, anxiety and trigger overeating. Learning how to manage your blood sugar can help.

July 03, 2025
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Phillip McKenzie, who was paralyzed from the neck down in a fall in 2012, uses a brain-computer interface developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh to navigate complex virtual tasks that simulate everyday activities,

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  • Science

Click, speak, move: These brain implants are poised to help people with disabilities

People who can no longer move or speak may soon have a new option: an implanted device that links their brain to a computer.

July 02, 2025
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
The Wisconsin Supreme Court listens to arguments during a redistricting hearing at the state Capitol, Nov. 21, 2023, in Madison, Wis. The court decided Wednesday, July 2, 2025, that the state's 176-year-old law does not ban abortion.

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  • National

Wisconsin's 1849 law does not ban abortion, the state Supreme Court rules

After years of litigation following the Dobbs decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court justices, with their liberal majority, ruled that the state's 176-year-old law does not ban abortion in the state.

July 02, 2025
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  • Maayan Silver
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