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Bithaniya Fieseha, a high school senior, graduates from the Youth Public Health Ambassador program run by the Fairfax County Health Department at West Springfield High School in Fairfax County, Va.

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Short on community health workers, a county trains teens as youth ambassadors

9:50am January 01, 2023

by Pien Huang

In Fairfax County, Va., the health department is training high school students to become health ambassadors in underserved communities and get a leg up on future careers in public health.

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A father's recipe for fudge is a decadent dessert meant for sharing

6:55am January 01, 2023

by Emily Feng

As part of our series All Things We're Cooking, Jan Kincaid describes a fudge recipe she grew up making with her parents and continued making into her adulthood.

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A father's recipe for fudge is a decadent dessert meant for sharing

6:55am January 01, 2023

by Emily Feng

As part of our series All Things We're Cooking, Jan Kincaid describes a fudge recipe she grew up making with her parents and continued making into her adulthood.

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Takakudjyti Kayapó, better known as Takakre, holds up a matrinxã fish. A community fishing monitor, he will measure and weigh the fish before recording its details in a spreadsheet to be sent to other members of the team studying how the mercury used in illegal mining is affecting fish populations in the Pixaxá River.

Is there mercury in the fish we eat? Amazonians tap WhatsApp to find out

8:46pm December 31, 2022

by Jill Langlois

A community of Indigenous peoples worried that mercury used by gold miners was contaminating the fish they eat. So they created a DIY team to find out more.

An older adult receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccination site on Dec. 7 in Chongqing, China. Concerns about effectiveness and safety have led to uncertainty about the COVID vaccine, notably among older citizens, whose vaccination rate is relatively low.

China's COVID vaccines: Do the jabs do the job?

7:43pm December 31, 2022

by Michaeleen Doucleff

As case counts surge in China, rumors circulate about the effectiveness and safety of the made-in-China vaccines in use there. Here's what we know about CoronaVac and Sinopharm.

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The overturning of Roe v. Wade made history in 2022

7:59am December 31, 2022

by Sarah McCammon

The constitutional right to abortion ended this year, with clinics closing in states that banned the procedure, and patients who could traveling to states where abortion is allowed.

A boy works in a coal mine north of Kabul. Afghanistan's state-run coal industry is going strong in an otherwise shattered economy. Many underage workers are the ones who are extracting the coal.

In Afghanistan, coal mining relies on the labor of children

5:02am December 31, 2022

Since the return of the Taliban, Afghanistan's coal exports have increased — and so has child labor. At a coal mine in Baghlan province, boys earn between $3 and $8 for a day's work.

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Mwele Malecela targeted diseases that afflict the poor and disadvantaged and always wanted to give the locals a voice in any programs or strategies.

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In memoriam: Female trailblazers who leapt over barriers to fight for their sisters

5:49pm December 30, 2022

They were pioneers in their fields, working to improve the health and lives of other women and paving the way for other female scientists.

Morning news brief

7:23am December 30, 2022

by A Martínez

This was a pivotal year in America's opioid crisis. Brazilian soccer legend Pele has died at the age of 82. Young Republicans demand change from their party to keep up with their generation.

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New father Yappe Pako gets help with his kangaroo care carrier from a midwife. His newborn son is named Ambo Crisostome. They're in the kangaroo care ward at the University Hospital Medical Center at Treichville in the Ivory Coast. A new program teaches the technique to moms and dads. It's especially beneficial for preterm and low birthweight babies.

Editors' picks: Our best global photos of 2022 range from heart-rending to hopeful

6:54am December 30, 2022

by Marc Silver

The eye of the camera told the stories of kangaroo care for human babies, Angola's intrepid female de-miners, Ukrainian refugees who find a warm — and familiar — welcome in Brazil and more.