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Dengue Cases Hit Record Levels in North and South America

4:50pm March 28, 2024

by Gabrielle Emanuel

This week Puerto Rico declared a health emergency due to an increase of Dengue Fever cases. Health officials are worried because the mosquito-borne illness is showing up unusually early.

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The writer in Amalfi, Italy, where her grandfather is from.

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Grief made me lose my balance. Here's how I learned to walk forward again

2:46pm March 28, 2024

by Lauren DePino

After a fall near the first anniversary of her beloved aunt's death, a writer explored why grief can make us less sure-footed. She found answers, climbing a precarious staircase in Italy.

Life Kit editors share some of our favorite tips from our March episodes (clockwise from left): How to prevent eye strain, how to quickly get a messy house back in order and how to manage adult sibling relationships.

Life Kit's tips of the month: On seafood labels, eye strain and sibling relationships

2:44pm March 28, 2024

by Life Kit

Our most memorable and useful expert advice from Life Kit's March episodes, hand-picked by the editors.

How two mothers bonded in the wake of a Nashville school shooting

5:01pm March 27, 2024

by Rose Gilbert

Two women bonded after the Nashville school shooting a year ago over their children's exposure to violence and loss.

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Body-cam footage will be released in fatal shooting by Greensboro police officer last summer

2:12pm March 27, 2024

by DJ Simmons

A Superior Court judge has granted a request from the Greensboro Police Department to release body-worn camera video of a fatal shooting involving Officer John Corrigan.

Why Oregon's groundbreaking drug decriminalization experiment is coming to an end

2:02pm March 27, 2024

by Dave Davies

In 2020, voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of hard drugs. Journalist E. Tammy Kim explains how and why public opinion has turned.

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Victoria Micieli, director and scientist at the Center for Parasitological and Vector Studies of the national scientific research institute CONICET, classifies different species of mosquitoes at a laboratory in La Plata, in Argentina's Buenos Aires Province, on Tuesday.

Here's what to know about dengue, as Puerto Rico declares a public health emergency

1:59pm March 27, 2024

by Joe Hernandez

Most people with dengue will show no signs of infection or experience only mild symptoms, but in rare cases infections can become severe and potentially fatal.

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Supreme Court justices seem doubtful of challenge to abortion pill

5:10am March 27, 2024

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Eva Temkin, a former FDA policy expert, about arguments at the Supreme Court regarding the abortion drug Mifepristone.

In Pennsylvania, she wants to hand out new syringes to save lives. But is it legal?

5:01am March 27, 2024

As billions from opioid settlements pour into states, Pennsylvania's efforts against addiction could be hamstrung because clean syringes could be considered illegal drug paraphernalia.

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The palms of a patient with mpox during an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997. The country is now seeing a dramatic spike in mpox — with a strain that is deadlier than the one that sparked the global outbreak in 2022.

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Why the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is worrying disease docs

5:00am March 27, 2024

by Gabrielle Emanuel

With a dramatic jump in cases — and a strain of mpox that is deadlier than the virus that went global in 2022 — specialists are scrambling to reign it in.