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For some people struggling with addictions, spending time with horses is healing

8:08am November 25, 2023

by Scott Simon

Equine therapy can help those struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. Two men receiving treatment near Philadelphia talk with NPR's Scott Simon about their special bond with horses.

A wife and grandmother with dementia is connected through a trail of stars to her husband and grandchildren.

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Facing my wife's dementia: Should I fly off to see our grandkids without her?

7:00am November 25, 2023

by Marc Silver

After 40 years of living and travelling together, a writer considers a trip without his wife. He can't explain where he's going or why he can't bring her along.

The FDA and the CDC are warning consumers not to eat certain whole and cut cantaloupes and pre-cut fruit products linked to a salmonella outbreak.

FDA investigates growing salmonella outbreak linked to recalled cantaloupe

7:36pm November 24, 2023

by Emma Bowman

At least 45 people were hospitalized with salmonella poisoning linked to recalled whole and pre-cut fruit. The illnesses occurred in a majority of U.S. states and in Canada.

After the Dobbs decision, birth rates are up in states with abortion ban states

5:17pm November 24, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Caitlin Myers, co-author of a study that shows that births have increased in states that have abortion bans.

Morning news brief

7:18am November 24, 2023

by A Martínez

Temporary truce begins in Gaza, with first hostages set to be released. Why progressive prosecutors often face resistance from police. Rosalynn Carter tried to end mental health discrimination.

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Palestinians evacuate the area following an Israeli airstrike on the Sousi mosque in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. Images of suffering, violence and death in Gaza and Israel have flooded the news since Oct. 7.

Watching war unfold is distressing — here's how to protect your mental health

6:00am November 24, 2023

by Malaka Gharib

Doomscrolling won't help the people who are suffering and it might put you into a state of chronic stress. A psychiatrist who works with trauma shares advice for how to process global tragedy.

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter attends a rally at the US Capitol in March 2008 when she helped get the mental health parity law enacted. Carter died on Nov. 19 at age 96.

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First Lady Rosalynn Carter's legacy on mental health boils down to one word: Hope

5:05am November 24, 2023

by Christine Herman

The former first lady fought with persistence to put care for mental and physical health on equal footing and to eliminate discrimination toward people with mental illnesses.

Before dying, she made a fund to cancel others' medical debt — now $60 million worth

6:42pm November 23, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Andrew Gregory about his late wife, Casey McIntyre, and the medical debt cancellation fund she set up before she died earlier in November of ovarian cancer.

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Minnesota aims to stop separating mothers in prison from their newborn babies

6:42pm November 23, 2023

by Alisa Roth

A woman who gives birth in jail or prison typically is separated from her baby within hours or days. Minnesota now lets some moms stay out of prison and at home with their new babies.

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Residents wearing face masks line up behind barricaded tapes for COVID mass testing near a residential area on May 15, 2022, in Beijing. The World Health Organization says it's made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.

WHO asks China for more information about rise in illnesses and pneumonia clusters

1:52pm November 23, 2023

by The Associated Press

The World Health Organization has asked China to provide data on a spike in pneumonia and bacterial lung infections in children there.