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A drumming circle at the Friendship House in San Francisco. Friendship House is a Native-led recovery treatment program that provides culturally relevant care.

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  • Health

Medicaid will cover traditional healing practices for Native Americans in 4 states

The new coverage includes practices such as music therapy, sweat lodges, and drumming, which are integral to Native healing traditions and have proved helpful for addiction among other health issues.

October 19, 2024
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By:
  • Lesley McClurg
Toyin feeds her 3-year-old daughter, Kudirat, while her husband, Saheed, tends to their other two children.

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  • Global Health

PHOTOS: How 9 families cope when they can't afford 3 healthy meals a day for the kids

"Severe child food poverty" is on the rise, affecting 181 million young kids. Here's how families cope when their kids are hungry and they can't afford to put 3 nutritious meals a day on the table.

October 18, 2024
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By:
  • Emily Sohn
Mayor Andre Dickens and Councilmember Liliana Bahktiari speak about fresh food access following an Invest Atlanta board meeting on October 17, 2024.

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  • News

Invest Atlanta partners with city officials to improve fresh food access

A new plan with funding from Invest Atlanta will put 2.5 million dollars towards five new grocery locations in low income areas of Atlanta. 

October 18, 2024
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From left: Emma Rady Wanroy and Hannah Johns, who were each adopted from China by U.S. parents. Wanroy, who has become a therapist specializing in working with other adoptees, cautions against narratives that adoption is a happy ending: “Adoptees have all these dangling questions that hang above them that we don't really get answered ever.” Johns, raised in Texas after being found on a street corner in eastern China, says, “I can be grateful, and I can have a great, great relationship with my parents. But …

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  • Global Health

China ends international adoption. Reactions range from shock to relief

The decision has sent shockwaves through the adoption community and angered families still in the process of adopting children from China. We interviewed adoptees in the U.S. to hear their reaction.

October 17, 2024
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By:
  • Emily Feng
People protested in front of the White House in September 2023 to raise awareness of opioid-related deaths. A year later, the number of fentanyl-related deaths in the U.S. has dropped sharply.

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  • Health

Fentanyl deaths in the U.S. have dropped faster than expected, CDC says

If the downward trend holds, this year is expected to be the first since 2020 to see overdose deaths fall below the 100,000 mark. However, Black and Native American communities remain vulnerable.

October 17, 2024
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By:
  • Brian Mann
TJ Hoover, left, in a recent picture with his sister, Donna Rhorer. In October 2021, Hoover was declared dead and on the brink of having his organs removed to be transplanted into other people. The surgery was halted in the operating room.

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  • Health

‘Horrifying’ mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say

At a hospital in Kentucky, a man who had been declared dead after a drug overdose was moving and visibly crying as he was prepped for surgery to donate his vital organs. The surgery was stopped, and the man is alive three years later.

October 17, 2024
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By:
  • Rob Stein
People getting the flu shot this year will be vaccinated against three commonly circulating strains instead of four, after one went extinct during the pandemic.

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  • Health

The flu shot is different this year, thanks to COVID

A strain of influenza appears to have disappeared from the planet since COVID. As a result, U.S. flu vaccines have been redesigned.

October 17, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Boden
A sampling of some of the hundreds of ready-to-eat products affected by the BrucePac recall, according to the USDA.

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  • National

Millions of pounds of meat are being recalled. Here's what to look for in your fridge

Over 11 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry were recalled over listeria concerns, affecting salads, wraps, frozen meals and more from popular chains like Target, Trader Joe's and Walmart.

October 17, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Abrar Saleh Ali, 17, arrived to Milé refugee camp in Eastern Chad two weeks ago after the civil war in Sudan destroyed her home and she was seperated from her family. It took months for her to walk across the country and reach the camp, along the way she was robbed of all her belongings, After arriving at the camp, she found out that her sister had been killed.

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  • Global Health

A world of women: Portraits from a refugee camp where the men are missing

In one refugee settlement in Chad, estimates are that 97% of the Sudanese residents are women and children. Here's how four women there are mourning the loss of a partner and struggling to get by.

October 16, 2024
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Claire Harbage
Both candidates have health care records, but Donald Trump does not talk about his often on the campaign trail.

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  • Health

Harris backs slashing medical debt. Trump’s ‘concepts’ worry advocates

The Biden administration has taken significant steps to address the medical debt problem that burdens 100 million people in America, but gains would be jeopardized by a Trump win, advocates say.

October 16, 2024
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By:
  • Noam Levey
Walgreens said Tuesday it would close 1,200 stores. Rival drugstore chain CVS recently laid off thousands of employees to cut costs.

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  • Business

CVS and Walgreens are ailing. Here’s why

America’s biggest pharmacy chains are closing hundreds of stores, laying off thousands of workers and rethinking their role in our lives.

October 16, 2024
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
GPB News NPR

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  • Mental Health

COMIC: Science-backed mood boosters to (almost instantly) snap you out of a funk

Six techniques to energize you when you feel sluggish and relax you when you feel stressed. Feel the transformation in 15 minutes or less.

October 16, 2024
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By:
  • Marielle Segarra and
  • Connie Hanzhang Jin
Sister Rosita Milesi is the global laureate of the 2024 Nansen Refugee Award. She calls the honor "a recognition of all the people who helped me, who participated in my journey — especially the refugees that I had the opportunity to assist and accompany and who have always taught me lessons of hope and faith that fueled my own journey."

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  • Global Health

Wise words from Sister Rosita, age 79: A math lover wins U.N. prize for refugee relief

Rosita Milesi was honored with the U.N. Refugee Agency's Nansen Refugee Award for 40 years of activism. The U.N. calls her a "formidable refugee champion." And she has life lessons to share.

October 15, 2024
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  • Maria Isabel Barros Guinle
Jeff and Donna Standridge (right and middle) and Keith Lowhorne (right) are all raising their grandchildren. More than 2.5 million children in the U.S. are raised by grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other extended family members — when their parents are unable to care for them.

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  • Health

A new way to support grandparents raising kids affected by the addiction epidemic

A pilot program in Alabama will distribute $280,000 from opioid settlement funds to support ‘grandfamilies’ formed to raise kids affected by the opioid epidemic.

October 15, 2024
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By:
  • Drew Hawkins
Walgreens will close 1,200 stores over three years, the company announced on Tuesday.

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  • Business

Walgreens will close 1,200 stores, hoping for a turnaround

Walgreens says about a quarter of its stores are unprofitable. Big pharmacy chains are struggling with growing retail competition and lower prescription payouts.

October 15, 2024
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  • Alina Selyukh
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