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The course, Science of Well-Being for teens, share strategies for a happier life

5:11am January 25, 2023

Young people in the U.S. are increasingly dealing with mental health issues. A Yale professor shares some advice for young people from her free online class.

The days might seem long, but the years go by quickly, friends warned when my son was was born. I wanted to savor each precious memory, but how? Living on "toddler time," showed me the way.

To reignite the joy of childhood, learn to live on 'toddler time'

5:11am January 25, 2023

by Rhitu Chatterjee

The days might seem long, but the years go by quickly, friends warned when my son was born. I wanted to savor each precious memory, but how? Living on "toddler time," showed me the way.

After Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest, there's new urgency to get AEDs in schools

5:11am January 25, 2023

by Blake Farmer

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest spotlighted automated external defibrillators. Schools are making sure people know how to use them. (Story aired on ATC on Jan. 20, 2023.)

New guidance calls for lower lead levels in food for babies and children under 2. Lead exposure can be harmful to developing brains.

The FDA proposes new targets to limit lead in baby food

4:01am January 25, 2023

Toxic metal can be harmful to developing brains. New lead targets are part of a broad FDA imitative to reduce children's exposure to the lowest levels possible.

George Mink Jr. is a health care outreach worker in Delaware County, Pa. He worries about what will happen when vaccines are no longer paid for by the federal government. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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6.8 million expected to lose Medicaid when paperwork hurdles return

12:34pm January 24, 2023

by Alan Yu | WHYY

Since early in the pandemic, people on Medicaid have been able to stay enrolled without reapplying. That will change in April and millions of eligible people will lose the coverage.

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

by April Laissle

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.