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If it feels like your kid has been sick for months — here's some scientific comfort

6:33pm January 25, 2023

by Maria Godoy

With COVID, RSV, the flu and other bugs circulating, the last few months have been an endless cycle of illness for many families with young kids. While miserable, it's also normal in the grand scheme.

The impact gun violence is having on society's mental health

5:11pm January 25, 2023

How is gun violence impacting our mental health as a society? NPR's Ari Shapiro asks psychologist Erika Felix how we should be taking care of ourselves amid countless stories of deadly mass shootings.

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New lawsuits target state restrictions on abortion pills

2:44pm January 25, 2023

by Matthew Perrone, Associated Press

Supporters of abortion rights filed separate lawsuits Wednesday challenging two states' abortion pill restrictions, the opening salvo in what’s expected to be a protracted legal battle over access

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

11:35am January 25, 2023

by NPR Staff

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.

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The course, Science of Well-Being for teens, share strategies for a happier life

5:11am January 25, 2023

Young people in the U.S. are increasingly dealing with mental health issues. A Yale professor shares some advice for young people from her free online class.

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

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

5:11am January 25, 2023

by Rhitu Chatterjee

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.

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

5:11am January 25, 2023

by Blake Farmer

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.)

New guidance calls for lower lead levels in food for babies and children under 2. Lead exposure can be harmful to developing brains.

The FDA proposes new targets to limit lead in baby food

4:01am January 25, 2023

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.

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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6.8 million expected to lose Medicaid when paperwork hurdles return

12:34pm January 24, 2023

by Alan Yu | WHYY

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.

Smoke pours out of the Winston Weaver Fertilizer Plant

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Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist will study health effects of Winston Weaver Fire

5:37pm January 23, 2023

by April Laissle

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is recruiting participants for a study examining the health impacts of the Winston Weaver Fertilizer Plant fire, which forced mass evacuations in Winston-Salem nearly one year ago.