Doctors are seeing more children injured – some badly – from e-bikes and e-scooters. NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe talks with Dr. Cornelia Griggs and Caitlin Coit of Mass General Brigham for …
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Trust in public health institutions is eroding. What can officials do?
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesNPR’s Ayesha Rascoe discusses America’s declining trust in public health officials with Marianne Udow-Phillips, a lecturer at the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan.
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Nurses on Cyclospora frontlines work to trace infection’s origin : NPR
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesLinda Kim, a nurse at the Washtenaw County Health Department in Michigan, has been helping to investigate more than 900 cases of cyclosporiasis locally. Foodborne illnesses are some of the …
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Moderna will soon learn the regulatory fate of its mRNA-based flu shot. Maddie Meyer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Maddie Meyer/Getty Images For the latest stories on the science of …
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How these slum dwellers went from one-room shacks to beautiful new apartments : NPR
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesPooja Gawali and her family left the tin shack in which they’d live and moved into a new apartment building. She helped design their unit, which, she says, gives her …
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Entomologist Stephen Dobson on releasing modified mosquitoes to fight disease
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesNPR’s Scott Simons asks University of Kentucky entomologist Stephen Dobson about mosquito control using modified mosquitoes released into the wild.
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How local pediatricians are sidestepping CDC on vaccine advice : NPR
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesPediatrician John Snyder gives vaccine information to Tenzin Dekey, who had brought her 1-year-old son to Amherst Pediatrics for an annual exam. She accepted the vaccines that Snyder recommended. Karen …
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It’s so hot in Germany this summer that Cologne started a “Cooling Cologne” initiative: Chilled groundwater is dispersed through fine-mist sprays connected to fire hoses. Kadir Ilboga/Anadolu via Getty Images …
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What’s it like to be on the frontlines of the Cyclosporiasis outbreak? : NPR
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesWhat it’s like on the on the frontlines of the public health investigation into cyclosporiasis, in Washtenaw County, Michigan, which just finished with a measles outbreak. Now it’s dealing about …
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On Aug. 1, the first Americans lose Medicaid under Trump’s work rules : NPR
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesTimothy Herman leaves a senior center in Curtis, Nebraska. The state is the first in the nation to roll out work requirements for Medicaid, which President Trump created in his …