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A new mental health hotline is focusing on providing support to farmers and ranchers

8:32am September 10, 2022

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Tara Haskins, health director at the healthcare-focused nonprofit AgriSafe, about a new suicide prevention hotline aimed to help agricultural workers.

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How workplaces can support employees with long COVID

8:27am September 10, 2022

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Terri Rhodes of the Disability Management Employer Coalition about people with long COVID and the benefits of keeping them in the workforce.

FILE - This 2014 illustration made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a polio virus particle. The polio virus has been found in New York City's wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn't been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health officials said Friday, Aug. 12, 2022.

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Poliovirus detected in more wastewater near New York City

5:19am September 10, 2022

by The Associated Press

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state is stepping up polio-fighting efforts as the virus was detected in the wastewater of another county in the New York City area.

There's nothing stinky about the salty sweat dripping from your face after a run. It's just your body throwing off otherwise dangerous heat.

7 fun facts about sweat

5:00am September 10, 2022

by Max Barnhart

Perspiration can be a stinky nuisance as temperatures climb, but scientists say we shouldn't sell sweat short. There's so much more to the briny stuff than meets the eye.

A bookmark advertising the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline emergency telephone number displayed by a volunteer with the Natrona County Suicide Prevention Task Force, in Casper, Wyoming on August 14, 2022.

New 988 mental health crisis line sees jump in calls and texts during first month

5:00am September 10, 2022

by Rhitu Chatterjee

Mental health advocates say the numbers are encouraging, but there's more work to be done to build up state and local resources.

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Puzzling trend: large proportion of monkeypox cases have happened in people with HIV

5:13am September 09, 2022

by Pien Huang

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that a disproportionate number of people who are contracting monkeypox in the U.S. are also HIV-positive.

Abortion rights supporters gather outside the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Mich., during a rally on September 7, 2022.

Michigan Supreme Court rules abortion amendment should go to voters this November

5:49pm September 08, 2022

If the proposed amendment doesn't hit any further roadblocks, voters in Michigan will be able to decide whether to protect abortion rights in the state constitution this November.

California public health official on staying safe during scorching heatwave

4:29pm September 08, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Tomás Aragón, director of the California Department of Public Health, about how the state is responding to its recent heatwave.

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Critics say the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's signs explaining New York's new mask-optional policy for transit riders undermines earlier messages and puts people at risk.

New York's subway now has a 'you do you' mask policy. It's getting a Bronx cheer

11:56am September 08, 2022

by Bill Chappell

Millions of New Yorkers embraced an "all in this together" motto during the pandemic — and many are roasting the city's transit agency over updated signs explaining its newly relaxed masking policy.

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North Carolina expands eligibility for monkeypox vaccine as cases rise

8:40am September 08, 2022

by Neal Charnoff

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has amended the criteria for who is eligible to receive a monkeypox vacc