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Inside the Global Fight to Keep Polio From Making a Comeback
As humanitarian funding cuts devastate health institutions, experts fear a foe long vanquished from much of the world is on the brink of a rebound
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Naloxone Is a Proven Fix for Overdoses. So Why Can’t Teens Access It?
The opioid antidote is a lifesaver, but a maze of state laws governing prescriptions, minor consent, and Good Samaritan protections is keeping it out of many young people’s hands
- Urgent Care
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‘Going Home to Die’: People With Eating Disorders Need Special Care. Insurers Are Denying It
Insurers are using loopholes in a mental health parity law to get around paying for expensive in-patient care
- Sick System
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GLP-1s Are a Weight Loss Miracle. Could They Also Curb the Opioid Crisis?
More than 100,000 people die every year from opioid overdoses — and some believe the new class of drugs could help save those lives
- Harm Reduction
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‘More Kids Will Die’: Measles Is on the Rise — and Doctors Say There’s No End in Sight
Amid the Trump administration's assault on vaccines and cuts to the CDC, there are now more than 2,000 confirmed cases — and counting — nationwide
- Seeing Red
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Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize
- Sick and Tired
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These Moms Smoked Weed Legally. Then Their Kids Were Taken Away
Despite scarce evidence that marijuana harms children in utero or through breastfeeding, child welfare agencies are severely punishing mothers who use
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Could a Conflict-Borne Superbug Bring on Our Next Pandemic?
New breeds of drug-resistant bacteria are proliferating in war-torn parts of the globe — and spreading from the battlefield to hospitals and across borders
- the tomorrow war
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'My Generation Has Been Destroyed' — Inside the Mental Health Crisis Facing Michigan's Muslim Youth
In the Arab American enclave of Dearborn, the war in Gaza and increased surveillance from the FBI stoke anxiety, depression, and substance abuse — pushing the 9/11 generation to the brink
- Special Report
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Pregnant on the Other Side of the Border
As the migrant population swells in Northern Mexico, expectant mothers there are being denied care and falling prey to horrific violence, according to a two-year investigation by the journalism nonprofit Capital & Main
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