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Ex-Google Employee Leaves Company With Some Parental Policy Advice

5:52pm August 10, 2019

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Cristina Tcheyan about her decision to leave her job at Google to raise her children — and how companies can be more supportive of working parents.

At Nashville's "High Five" camp, 12-year-old Priceless Garinger (center), whose right side has been weakened by cerebral palsy, wears a full-length, bright pink cast on her left arm — though that arm's strong and healthy. By using her weaker right arm a

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At 'High Five' Camp, Struggling With A Disability Is The Point

11:35am August 10, 2019

by Blake Farmer

A day camp in Nashville uses "constraint-induced therapy" to help kids who have physical weakness on one side — often because of a stroke or cerebral palsy — gain strength and independence.

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Renee Bach, 30, is being sued in Ugandan civil court over the deaths of children who were treated at the critical care center she ran in Uganda. She has left Uganda and is now living in Bedford County, Virginia, where she grew up.

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American With No Medical Training Ran Center For Malnourished Ugandan Kids. 105 Died

9:19am August 10, 2019

When she was 19, Renee Bach founded a charity that went on to care for over 900 severely malnourished babies and children. Now she is being sued by two of the mothers whose children died.

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Folwell Stopping Fight For Now With Hospitals Over Pricing

2:43pm August 09, 2019

by Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

If a doctor is found to be ordering too many MRI or CT scans or other imaging tests for Medicare patients, a federal law is supposed to require the physician to get federal approval for all diagnostic imaging. But the Trump administration has stalled the

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Trump Team Hits Brakes On Law That Would Curb Unneeded Medicare CT Scans, MRIs

11:05am August 09, 2019

by Phil Galewitz

Critics worry that the administration's delays come at a steep cost: Medicare continues to pay for millions of unnecessary exams and patients are being subjected to radiation for no medical benefit.

This tree-planting photo was submitted with an application for a gun license in Ferozepur, a city in India's Punjab state.

To Get A Gun License, First You Have To Plant 10 Trees

9:38am August 09, 2019

by Kamala Thiagarajan

That's the new rule in Ferozepur, a district in India's Punjab state. As proof you have to submit a photo of yourself with your saplings.

In the U.S., firearms kill more people through suicide than homicide.

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How The CDC's Reluctance To Use The 'F-Word' — Firearms — Hinders Suicide Prevention

6:50pm August 08, 2019

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Congress has told the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention not to "advocate or promote gun control." That directive complicates the public health agency's efforts to prevent suicide.

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Why Competition Hasn't Brought Down The High Price Of Snakebite Treatment

2:37pm August 08, 2019

by Carmen Heredia Rodriguez

The snakebite antivenin CroFab, on the U.S. market since 2000, now faces competition from a drug called Anavip. But both are expensive. "Perverse incentives" keep prices high, says one legal scholar.

A large new "sensory space" at Pittsburgh International Airport is divided into separate rooms; families can tailor sound and light levels to each traveler, whatever their age.

Kids And Adults With Autism Flying Easier In Pittsburgh, With Airport's Help

1:24pm August 08, 2019

by Kathleen Davis

Pittsburgh International Airport has opened a 1,500-square-foot "sensory space" to help people on the autism spectrum decompress during travel. Soothing colors and private, soundproof rooms are a hit.

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A World Without Water

12:42pm August 08, 2019

A quarter of the world's population is at high risk of running out of water.