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Amazon is getting into health care. Will it actually make care more accessible?

9:39am November 12, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

Amazon is now offering discounted subscriptions to primary care. Ayesha Rascoe talks to healthcare writer Bruce Japsen about what ventures like these signal for patients.

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One Brooklyn community fears safety amidst a lack of mental health resources

8:19am November 12, 2023

by Samantha Max

In Brooklyn, a man has been assaulting and harassing people in the neighborhood for years, sparking a debate about community safety and addressing unmet mental health needs.

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Jose Grajeda and daughter, Victoria. "If I wanted to go to sleep as a child, I would go cuddle with my mom and she would give me piojito," he says — Spanish for "little lice." The late Peruvian linguist Martha Hidlebrandt described piojito as "gently scratching the scalp of a child as if he were being relieved of the itching of imaginary lice" — hence the name.

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You don't need words to calm a grumpy kid. Parents around the world use a magic touch

7:26am November 12, 2023

by Michaeleen Doucleff

Modern parents are told to TALK with an agitated kid to improve their mood. But in many cultures, mom and dad opt for a soothing caress to induce tranquility. Neurologists explain why it works.

Davey Bauer was near death six months ago after the flu and another bacterial infection wasted his lungs. Now he says he's feeling stronger each day as he recovers from a double lung transplant.

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He lived without lungs for a day. How a remarkable transplant operation saved him

7:01am November 12, 2023

by Diane Webber

The flu almost killed a 34-year-old man who was addicted to vaping. But an innovative doctor – and some DD-sized breast implants – made him eligible for a transplant.

Anthony Velbis, a nurse with the homeless service agency HOPICS, checks up on Anthony Boladeres outside the RV where he's living in South Los Angeles. "It's nice being able to meet the client where they're at," Velbis says.

'Frustration all across the board.' A day with homelessness outreach workers in L.A.

11:13pm November 11, 2023

Teams of case managers and medical professionals help connect people on the street to social services and, eventually, housing. But it's a tough job when there aren't nearly enough places to stay.

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Many generic drugs are in short supply

9:11am November 11, 2023

by Yuki Noguchi

Americans depend on generic drugs for 90% of prescriptions. But shortages have become a chronic problem. Generic drug manufacturing has become a race to get to the lowest price.

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Grandfather and granddaughter outside the family ger â or yurt. A study of Mongolians studied living in gers showed higher rates of satisfaction than those living in urban housing, a finding the authors relate to the Mongolian emphasis on nature and freedom.

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What makes Mongolia the world's most 'socially connected' place? Maybe it's #yurtlife

7:18am November 11, 2023

by Katya Cengel

A Gallup survey ranks countries based on degree of "social connectedness" people feel with friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, even strangers. We asked Mongolians why they think they top the list.

Design strategist Anna Engstrom created this sketch of a futuristic hospital that appears in Artists Remaking Medicine. She writes that she envisions "a more colorful health care future."

Could creativity transform medicine? These artists think so

7:00am November 11, 2023

by Mara Gordon

A new book argues that the arts have a role to play in shaking up the status quo in the American health care system and creating 'desperately needed culture change.'

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This physics professor ran 3,000 miles across America in record time

5:51pm November 10, 2023

by Megan Lim

Harvard professor Jenny Hoffman ran from San Francisco to New York City to beat the world record for fastest woman to run across America.

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A girl looks on as she stands by the rubble outside a building hit by Israeli bombardment in the southern Gaza Strip on October 31, 2023. Children in Gaza have been exposed to high levels of violence even before the current war, researchers say, increasing their risk of mental health challenges.

How a history of trauma is affecting the children of Gaza

3:58pm November 10, 2023

by Rhitu Chatterjee

Even before the current war, researchers documented the impact of conflict on children in Gaza. Now they worry that kids who are trapped on the battlefield face long-term impacts on mental health.

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