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News Articles: Health

Georgia State University's School of Public Health hosted it's third Public Health Research Day on April 17, 2025.

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  • Health

Research at Georgia universities has already taken a hit. What could be lost?

Institutions across the spectrum for research expenditures are scaling back and reassessing to prepare for cuts by the federal government.

April 28, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas

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  • Health

Financial stress can damage your mental health. These steps may help

With people losing their jobs and the stock market rocky, there's a lot of financial anxiety right now. Research shows how you approach it can be key to protecting your mental and physical health.

April 28, 2025
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By:
  • Katia Riddle
Danielle Waterfield was fired, rehired and fired again from her job at CHIPS for America, part of the Department of Commerce. Now, she fears her health insurance was cut off weeks ago, even though she was told otherwise.

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  • Politics

Fired, rehired, and fired again: Some federal workers find they're suddenly uninsured

Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

April 26, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Plumpy'Nut bars manufactured at the Edesia Nutrition plant in Rhode Island. Has the "ready-to-use therapeutic food" — credited with an 80 to 90% recovery rate among malnourished children — been caught up in the U.S. aid cuts?

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  • Global Health

Where's Plumpy'Nut? A lifesaving food for malnourished kids is caught up in U.S. cuts

It's a "ready-to-use therapeutic food" that's had remarkable success in treating malnourished kids. The State Department says it's still available. Factories and field workers have a different view.

April 25, 2025
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By:
  • Jewel Bright,
  • Gabrielle Emanuel,
  • and 1 more
Angeline Murimirwa of Zimbabwe has really racked up kudos for her work as head of CAMFED, a charity that has enabled millions of girls in five African countries to stay in school — and thrive with the help of mentors. Murimirwa is one of <em>Time</em> Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2025. Above: She accepts an award at Rihanna's 3rd Annual Diamond Ball in 2017.

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  • Global Health

Angie Murimirwa: From hiding in the bathroom to Time's most influential people list

A kid whose parents couldn't afford school fees is now an "icon" on Time magazine's 2025 list — recognizing her work as CEO of Camfed, a charity that gives millions of girls a chance for an education.

April 25, 2025
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By:
  • Marc Silver
Escherichia coli or E. coli is a part of family of bacteria that are commonly found in the human gut. Scientists found that a toxin the bacteria release is linked to some cases of colorectal cancer.

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  • Health

Damage from gut bacteria may play a role in the rise in colon cancer in young adults

Scientists have a new clue in the mystery of why younger people are getting more colon cancer. It may have to do with a toxin produced by a common gut microbe.

April 25, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone
Elon Musk walks to the White House after landing in Marine One on the South Lawn with U.S. President Donald Trump on March 9. Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has asked for major cuts to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a foreign aid agency started by George W. Bush.

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  • Global Health

DOGE dismantling foreign aid agency started by George W. Bush

The Millennium Challenge Corporation, focused on boosting economic growth abroad, could essentially shutter.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Jonathan Lambert and
  • Fatma Tanis
The Department of Health and Humans Services changed course and will continue funding for the Women's Health Initiative.

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  • Health

In a reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for women's health study

The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-VA is pushing for CDC's FOIA team to be restored, after the jobs were eliminated in the recent HHS layoffs.

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  • Health

House oversight Democrat demands answers on gutting of CDC public records office

House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Sydney Lupkin
Red kiosks offering self-serve COVID testing, like this one outside the Rockdale County Health Department, are being removed in Georgia after funding reductions to the state health department from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Rebecca Grapevine / Healthbeat)

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  • Health

CDC funding cuts impact Georgia vaccine access, other public health programs

Groups that work to provide access to vaccines, especially for Black Georgians and others in underserved communities, are among those affected as the state Department of Public Health absorbs a $334.2 million loss from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine and
  • Healthbeat
Attendance has more than quadrupled since the free ROMEO lunches for older men started in Harpswell, Maine, last fall. Tom Mahoney, left, directs other volunteers at a recent lunch when pizza was on the menu.

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  • Health

How to get older men to socialize is a puzzle. A group called ROMEO is one answer

ROMEO stands for "retired older men eating out," and it's helping guys in one Maine town get out of the house and into more friendships.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Ashley Milne-Tyte

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  • Health

I quit Ozempic and embraced feeling healthy over striving for thinness

Taking the drug made one writer feel so sick she quit and focused on healthy habits instead of her body size. Turns out, 65% of people using GLP-1 drugs for weight loss quit within a year.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Mara Gordon
Federal funding to support collection of new research data for the Women's Health Initiative will end in September 2025.

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  • Health

Funding cut for landmark study of women's health

The Women's Health Initiative, begun in the 1990s, has made many important discoveries. Now funding to collect more research data will end in September.

April 23, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Stein
A layer of smog lingers above downtown Los Angeles in 2024. Millions of Americans are still breathing in unhealthy air, despite long-term progress toward cleaning up many sources of pollution, according to the 2025 State of the Air report.

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  • Climate

Air pollution still plagues nearly half of Americans. That does a number on our health

Despite improvements in air quality in past decades, 156 million Americans still breathe in too much soot or ozone, says the annual State of the Air report from the American Lung Association.

April 23, 2025
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By:
  • Alejandra Borunda
An Eli Lilly & Co. Zepbound injection pen.

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  • Health

Eli Lilly sues companies selling alternative versions of its weight loss drug

The drug company Eli Lilly is suing four telehealth companies for allegedly selling copies made by compounding pharmacies of its drug Zepbound.

April 23, 2025
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  • Sydney Lupkin
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