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Smoke pours out of the Winston Weaver Fertilizer Plant

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Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist will study health effects of Winston Weaver Fire

5:37pm January 23, 2023

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is recruiting participants for a study examining the health impacts of the Winston Weaver Fertilizer Plant fire, which forced mass evacuations in Winston-Salem nearly one year ago.

Licensed vocational nurse Denise Saldana vaccinates Pri DeSilva, associate director of Individual and Corporate Giving, with a fourth Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster at the Dr. Kenneth Williams Health Center in Los Angeles, Nov. 1, 2022.

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The FDA considers a major shift in the nation's COVID vaccine strategy

5:31pm January 23, 2023

by Rob Stein

The new approach would simplify vaccination guidance so that, every fall, people would get a new shot, updated to try to match whatever variant is dominant.

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A change that kept people automatically enrolled in Medicaid is expiring soon

2:26pm January 23, 2023

by Alan Yu

Beginning in April, a pandemic-era law that changed access to Medicaid is set to expire. Six million low-income people could lose access to health care.

Morning news brief

6:49am January 23, 2023

The latest on the deadly shooting in Monterey Park, Calif. President Biden's lawyers uncover more classified material at his Delaware home. The FDA considers a major shift in COVID vaccine strategy.

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Can simple brain quizzes predict who gets a virus?

5:05am January 23, 2023

by Allison Aubrey

Could your smart phone help predict how vulnerable you are to catching a virus and getting sick? A new, preliminary study suggests that one day it could.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, in Tallahassee, Fla., on Saturday.

On 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Kamala Harris urges federal abortion protections

2:46pm January 22, 2023

by Giulia Heyward

In a speech delivered on Sunday, the vice president advocated for Congress to take action to protect abortion rights.

We asked, you answered: More global buzzwords for 2023, from precariat to solastalgia

8:13am January 22, 2023

by Marc Silver

After we published our list of terms likely to loom large in this year's vocabulary, readers submitted their own nominations. Here's a sampling.

Since the Dobbs decision in June, clinics providing abortions in what are now restrictive states have had to reinvent what they do. Shannon Brewer, pictured here in 2019 at the Jackson Women's Health Organization, now runs a clinic in Las Cruces, N.M., where abortion is legal.

50 years after Roe v. Wade, many abortion providers are changing how they do business

5:01am January 22, 2023

by Sarah McCammon

The overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision just months ahead of its 50th anniversary has prompted many abortion providers to shift how they serve patients.

Abortion-rights protesters shout into the Senate chamber in the Indiana Capitol on July 25, 2022, about a month after Roe was overturned, in Indianapolis.

Most Americans say overturning Roe was politically motivated, NPR/Ipsos poll finds

5:00am January 22, 2023

by Laura Benshoff

An NPR/Ipsos poll finds that most Americans say Supreme Court justices are guided more by their politics than the law, and that lawmakers aren't deciding abortion policy based on public sentiment.

Health & Safety

Three years on, how COVID-19 has changed health care

5:19pm January 21, 2023

Michel Martin talks with Advocate Health CEO Eugene A. Woods about how COVID-19 has changed health care in the U.S. since its arrival three years ago.