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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 8h

Your Global Health Checkup: The chikungunya virus is spreading beyond the tropics, including in New York. People are dying of malaria after U.S. cuts in Cameroon aid. Some good news for elephants - and more.

People are dying of malaria after U.S. cuts in Cameroon aid. Here's what else to know in global public health this week.

Your Global Health Checkup: The chikungunya virus is spreading beyond the tropics, including in New York. People are dying of malaria after U.S. cuts in Cameroon aid. Some good news for elephants - and more.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 20h

About 140,000 people across the state benefit from enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. Cutting them would be more expensive for everyone in the long run.

How the debate over health insurance subsidies affects New Yorkers

About 140,000 people across the state benefit from enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. Cutting them would be more expensive for everyone in the long run.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 1d

Together Take Me Home, based at Emory University, delivers HIV tests through an easy-to-use website and integration with dating apps. It's funding was set to be cut, but that decision was reversed.

Funding restored for the nation’s largest HIV home testing effort

Together Take Me Home, based at Emory University, delivers HIV tests through an easy-to-use website and integration with dating apps. It's funding was set to be cut, but that decision was reversed.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 1d

Alison Young has covered health, science and environmental issues for most of her career, including as a CDC beat reporter during an earlier time of controversial change at the agency. She joins Healthbeat in another period of upheaval.

Meet Alison Young, Healthbeat’s new senior national reporter

Alison Young has covered health, science and environmental issues for most of her career, including as a CDC beat reporter during an earlier time of controversial change at the agency. She joins Healthbeat in another period of upheaval.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 1d

Your Global Health Checkup: The chikungunya virus is spreading beyond the tropics, including in New York. People are dying of malaria after U.S. cuts in Cameroon aid. Some good news for elephants - and more.

People are dying of malaria after U.S. cuts in Cameroon aid. Here's what else to know in global public health this week.

Your Global Health Checkup: The chikungunya virus is spreading beyond the tropics, including in New York. People are dying of malaria after U.S. cuts in Cameroon aid. Some good news for elephants - and more.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 2d

Alison Young has covered health, science and environmental issues for most of her career, including as a CDC beat reporter during an earlier time of controversial change at the agency. She joins Healthbeat in another period of upheaval.

Meet Alison Young, Healthbeat’s new senior national reporter

Alison Young has covered health, science and environmental issues for most of her career, including as a CDC beat reporter during an earlier time of controversial change at the agency. She joins Healthbeat in another period of upheaval.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 2d

Nurses in California say nursing remains a noble calling, but many report feeling pressured to turn over beds and take on more patients, stress that can dissuade young people from entering the field and drive experienced nurses to leave or retire early.

California’s nursing shortage is getting worse. Front-line workers blame management.

Nurses in California say nursing remains a noble calling, but many report feeling pressured to turn over beds and take on more patients, stress that can dissuade young people from entering the field and drive experienced nurses to leave or retire early.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 2d

After weeks of confusion over who could get a Covid shot, it's back to business as usual: You can get the vaccine at pharmacies without a prescription in Georgia.

Clarity on Covid shots: Now available in Ga. without a prescription

After weeks of confusion over who could get a Covid shot, it's back to business as usual: You can get the vaccine at pharmacies without a prescription in Georgia.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 3d

Nurses in California say nursing remains a noble calling, but many report feeling pressured to turn over beds and take on more patients, stress that can dissuade young people from entering the field and drive experienced nurses to leave or retire early.

California’s nursing shortage is getting worse. Front-line workers blame management.

Nurses in California say nursing remains a noble calling, but many report feeling pressured to turn over beds and take on more patients, stress that can dissuade young people from entering the field and drive experienced nurses to leave or retire early.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 3d

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 3d

Several factors may explain a drop in reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, but the national data are not complete. Here's what to make of it.

Are STIs truly declining, or is our data just not very good?

Several factors may explain a drop in reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, but the national data are not complete. Here's what to make of it.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 3d

After weeks of confusion over who could get a Covid shot, it's back to business as usual: You can get the vaccine at pharmacies without a prescription in Georgia.

Clarity on Covid shots: Now available in Ga. without a prescription

After weeks of confusion over who could get a Covid shot, it's back to business as usual: You can get the vaccine at pharmacies without a prescription in Georgia.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 4d

Colorado has changed a law to allow it to consider vaccine recommendations from groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics, rather than relying on the federal government. Other states are also charting new paths.

Colorado leading the way for states to go their own way on vaccines

Colorado has changed a law to allow it to consider vaccine recommendations from groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics, rather than relying on the federal government. Other states are also charting new paths.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 4d

RFK Jr.'s proposal to add autism to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could unleash a flood of claims, threatening the program's financial stability. Here's what that means for vaccine access.

Inside the high-stakes battle over vaccine injury compensation, autism, and public trust

RFK Jr.'s proposal to add autism to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could unleash a flood of claims, threatening the program's financial stability. Here's what that means for vaccine access.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 4d

Chikungunya, a virus spread by mosquitoes, is very rare in the United States. The last locally transmitted cases occurred in 2015.

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NY health update: measles in Oswego wastewater, chikungunya in Long Island

Chikungunya, a virus spread by mosquitoes, is very rare in the United States. The last locally transmitted cases occurred in 2015.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 5d

RFK Jr.'s proposal to add autism to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could unleash a flood of claims, threatening the program's financial stability. Here's what that means for vaccine access.

Inside the high-stakes battle over vaccine injury compensation, autism, and public trust

RFK Jr.'s proposal to add autism to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could unleash a flood of claims, threatening the program's financial stability. Here's what that means for vaccine access.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 5d

Healthbeat is inviting New York’s public health community to step into the spotlight and share the stories that show why this work matters, in their own words.

Here's how to participate - and get free tickets to our live storytelling event.

Calling NYC’s community health voices: Share your ‘Aha’ moments

Healthbeat is inviting New York’s public health community to step into the spotlight and share the stories that show why this work matters, in their own words. Here's how to participate - and get tickets to our live storytelling event.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 5d

Healthbeat is inviting New York’s public health community to step into the spotlight and share the stories that show why this work matters, in their own words. Here's how to participate - and get tickets to our live storytelling event.

Calling NYC’s community health voices: Share your ‘Aha’ moments

Healthbeat is inviting New York’s public health community to step into the spotlight and share the stories that show why this work matters, in their own words. Here's how to participate - and get tickets to our live storytelling event.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 5d

Your Global Health Checkup: A lower price for the new HIV prevention shot, food poisoning in Indonesian school lunches, more on Ebola in Congo, a tiny sandfly parasite, and the odds of another pandemic.

Deal to lower price of new drug is 'huge moment of hope' in global HIV prevention

Your Global Health Checkup: A lower price for the new HIV prevention shot, food poisoning in Indonesian school lunches, more on Ebola in Congo, a tiny sandfly parasite, and the odds of another pandemic.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 6d

Barbara Kingsolver opened a women's recovery home in Virginia with royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, whose plot revolves around Appalachia’s opioid crisis. Here's how it's filling a gap in treatment.

How author Barbara Kingsolver is using 'Demon Copperhead' proceeds to help women in recovery

Barbara Kingsolver opened a women's recovery home in Virginia with royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, whose plot revolves around Appalachia’s opioid crisis. Here's how it's filling a gap in treatment.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 6d

The Muslim American Society Youth Center in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn has its own Social Services Department run by licensed therapists, where the work of personal growth is grounded in Islamic teachings.

Self-care as worship: How a Muslim youth center connects mental health to faith

The Muslim American Society Youth Center in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn has its own Social Services Department run by licensed therapists, where the work of personal growth is grounded in Islamic teachings.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 7d

Chikungunya, a virus spread by mosquitoes, is very rare in the United States. The last locally transmitted cases occurred in 2015.

More from @viralvibes.bsky.social:

NY health update: measles in Oswego wastewater, chikungunya in Long Island

Chikungunya, a virus spread by mosquitoes, is very rare in the United States. The last locally transmitted cases occurred in 2015.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 7d

Healthbeat is inviting New York’s public health community to step into the spotlight and share the stories that show why this work matters, in their own words. Here's how to participate - and get tickets to our live storytelling event.

Calling NYC’s community health voices: Share your ‘Aha’ moments

Healthbeat is inviting New York’s public health community to step into the spotlight and share the stories that show why this work matters, in their own words. Here's how to participate - and get tickets to our live storytelling event.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 8d

Chikungunya, a virus spread by mosquitoes, is very rare in the United States. The last locally transmitted cases occurred in 2015.

More from @viralvibes.bsky.social:

NY health update: measles in Oswego wastewater, chikungunya in Long Island

Chikungunya, a virus spread by mosquitoes, is very rare in the United States. The last locally transmitted cases occurred in 2015.

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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 8d

Your Global Health Checkup: A lower price for the new HIV prevention shot, food poisoning in Indonesian school lunches, more on Ebola in Congo, a tiny sandfly parasite, and the odds of another pandemic.

Deal to lower price of new drug is 'huge moment of hope' in global HIV prevention

Your Global Health Checkup: A lower price for the new HIV prevention shot, food poisoning in Indonesian school lunches, more on Ebola in Congo, a tiny sandfly parasite, and the odds of another pandemic.

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