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15 wishes for 2023: Trailblazers tell how they'd make life on Earth a bit better

We asked for a wish from expert wishers around the globe — from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to MacArthur "genius" grantee Gregg Gonsalves to Melva Acostaa, who runs a soup kitchen in Peru.

January 25, 2023
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  • NPR Staff

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  • Health

To reignite the joy of childhood, learn to live on 'toddler time'

The days might seem long, but the years go by quickly, friends warned when my son was born. I wanted to savor each precious memory, but how? Living on "toddler time," showed me the way.

January 25, 2023
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  • Rhitu Chatterjee
GPB News NPR

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After Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest, there's new urgency to get AEDs in schools

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest spotlighted automated external defibrillators. Schools are making sure people know how to use them. (Story aired on ATC on Jan. 20, 2023.)

January 25, 2023
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  • Blake Farmer
New guidance calls for lower lead levels in food for babies and children under 2. Lead exposure can be harmful to developing brains.

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  • Health

The FDA proposes new targets to limit lead in baby food

Toxic metal can be harmful to developing brains. New lead targets are part of a broad FDA imitative to reduce children's exposure to the lowest levels possible.

January 25, 2023
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  • Allison Aubrey and
  • Jane Greenhalgh
An interview with a federal official set off a culture war fight after he suggested regulators might put stricter scrutiny on gas cooking stoves due to health concerns.

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  • Politics

Gas stoves became part of the culture war in less than a week. Here's why

An interview with a federal safety regulator quickly became fodder for outrage, viral social media content and political fundraising.

January 24, 2023
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  • Lisa Hagen and
  • Jeff Brady
a woman looks at a chart about Medicaid expansion

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GBPI says full Medicaid expansion is more fiscally responsible than Georgia's waiver plan

Under the American Rescue Plan, the state would qualify for a bump in its Medicaid match for two years if it expanded Medicaid, which the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute estimates would be worth at least $700 million. And that would cover the first two years of enrollment.

January 24, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge
George Mink Jr. is a health care outreach worker in Delaware County, Pa. He worries about what will happen when vaccines are no longer paid for by the federal government. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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  • Health

6.8 million expected to lose Medicaid when paperwork hurdles return

Since early in the pandemic, people on Medicaid have been able to stay enrolled without reapplying. That will change in April and millions of eligible people will lose the coverage.

January 24, 2023
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  • Alan Yu | WHYY
Licensed vocational nurse Denise Saldana vaccinates Pri DeSilva, associate director of Individual and Corporate Giving, with a fourth Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster at the Dr. Kenneth Williams Health Center in Los Angeles, Nov. 1, 2022.

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  • Health

The FDA considers a major shift in the nation's COVID vaccine strategy

The new approach would simplify vaccination guidance so that, every fall, people would get a new shot, updated to try to match whatever variant is dominant.

January 23, 2023
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  • Rob Stein
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  • Health

Rules vote to mark milestone for medical cannabis in Georgia

Georgia’s long-delayed medical marijuana program is about to take off, despite a spate of unresolved lawsuits from companies that lost out in the bidding for licenses.

January 23, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
GPB News NPR

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  • National

A change that kept people automatically enrolled in Medicaid is expiring soon

Beginning in April, a pandemic-era law that changed access to Medicaid is set to expire. Six million low-income people could lose access to health care.

January 23, 2023
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  • Alan Yu
A person prepares heroin, placing a fentanyl test strip into the mixing container to check for contamination.

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  • Health

Free fentanyl tests now available in partnership with Fulton County

The Fulton County Board of Health partnered with local organizations StopHIVATL and the Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition to give out fentanyl test strips to save lives from drug overdose, which continues to add to a decrease in life expectancy nationwide.

January 23, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, in Tallahassee, Fla., on Saturday.

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  • Politics

On 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Kamala Harris urges federal abortion protections

In a speech delivered on Sunday, the vice president advocated for Congress to take action to protect abortion rights.

January 22, 2023
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  • Giulia Heyward

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  • Global Health

We asked, you answered: More global buzzwords for 2023, from precariat to solastalgia

After we published our list of terms likely to loom large in this year's vocabulary, readers submitted their own nominations. Here's a sampling.

January 22, 2023
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  • Marc Silver
Since the <em>Dobbs </em>decision in June, clinics providing abortions in what are now restrictive states have had to reinvent what they do. Shannon Brewer, pictured here in 2019 at the Jackson Women's Health Organization, now runs a clinic in Las Cruces, N.M., where abortion is legal.

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  • National

50 years after Roe v. Wade, many abortion providers are changing how they do business

The overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision just months ahead of its 50th anniversary has prompted many abortion providers to shift how they serve patients.

January 22, 2023
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  • Sarah McCammon
Abortion-rights protesters shout into the Senate chamber in the Indiana Capitol on July 25, 2022, about a month after <em>Roe </em>was overturned, in Indianapolis.

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  • National

Most Americans say overturning Roe was politically motivated, NPR/Ipsos poll finds

An NPR/Ipsos poll finds that most Americans say Supreme Court justices are guided more by their politics than the law, and that lawmakers aren't deciding abortion policy based on public sentiment.

January 22, 2023
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  • Laura Benshoff
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