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Trump administration ends 988 Lifeline's special service for LGBTQ+ young people

Rhitu Chatterjee

Callers to 988 used to be able to press 3 to reach counselors specially trained to help LGBTQ+ young people. The service had been reaching 70,000 people a month.

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House oversight Democrat demands answers on gutting of CDC public records office

Sydney Lupkin

House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.
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How to get older men to socialize is a puzzle. A group called ROMEO is one answer

Ashley Milne-Tyte

ROMEO stands for "retired older men eating out," and it's helping guys in one Maine town get out of the house and into more friendships.
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I quit Ozempic and embraced feeling healthy over striving for thinness

Mara Gordon

Taking the drug made one writer feel so sick she quit and focused on healthy habits instead of her body size. Turns out, 65% of people using GLP-1 drugs for weight loss quit within a year.
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Air pollution still plagues nearly half of Americans. That does a number on our health

Alejandra Borunda

Despite improvements in air quality in past decades, 156 million Americans still breathe in too much soot or ozone, says the annual State of the Air report from the American Lung Association.
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Eli Lilly sues companies selling alternative versions of its weight loss drug

Sydney Lupkin

The drug company Eli Lilly is suing four telehealth companies for allegedly selling copies made by compounding pharmacies of its drug Zepbound.
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Funding cut for landmark study of women's health

Rob Stein

The Women's Health Initiative, begun in the 1990s, has made many important discoveries. Now funding to collect more research data will end in September.
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NIH autism study will pull from private medical records

Alana Wise

The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
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Like measles, misinformation is spreading, poll finds

Maria Godoy

With the U.S. now reporting more than 800 measles cases, a new poll from health policy research group KFF finds that many people are being exposed to false claims about measles and the measles vaccine.
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RFK Jr. wants the food industry to stop using synthetic dyes

Carmel Wroth

Yuki Noguchi

The health secretary announced a push to eliminate petroleum-based colorants from the food supply. But he'll need to get food companies on board.
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With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'

Will Stone

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.