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Mika Ellison

KPBS is doing a story about how residents are affected by challenges finding and securing housing and how that affects their daily lives. We want to hear from you.

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Advocates push Congress to end Medicare wait for young-onset Alzheimer’s patients
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White House says U.S. fentanyl overdose programs will be funded 'in increments'
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Clawing back foreign aid is tied to 'waste, fraud and abuse.' What's the evidence?

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Musk says work to stop Ebola was accidentally cut but restored. Experts raise doubts

Gabrielle Emanuel

Elon Musk said USAID's "Ebola prevention" was "accidentally canceled" but "immediately" restored. Health specialists following the current outbreak in Uganda raise doubts about the restoration.
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The Trump administration kills nearly all USAID programs

Fatma Tanis

Frank Langfitt

The Trump administration is terminating thousands of foreign assistance grants and awards, according to a court filing. The move effectively guts the six-decade-old agency.
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NIH partially lifts freeze on funding process for medical research

Rob Stein

Thousands of grant applications had been stalled when the Trump administration blocked the National Institutes of Health from posting notices to the Federal Register.
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On Thursday word came: No more USAID funds for a clinic that gets HIV meds to kids

Gabrielle Emanuel

Supported by USAID, the Ethiopian clinic provides lifesaving medicine for HIV-positive kids and teens to suppress the virus. First came the 90-day freeze — and now an immediate termination of support.
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East County house cat who died last month tested positive for bird flu

City News Service

Raw pet food is believed to be the source of the infection that befell the indoor cat, who died in mid-January.
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Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned this week

Ari Daniel

He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.
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A child has died in the Texas measles outbreak

Pien Huang

It's the first measles death in the U.S. since 2015. More than 130 people in west Texas and New Mexico have been sickened in the outbreak so far.
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Tablets for tots? Survey says kids watch videos on their own devices by age 2

Katia Riddle

A.I. is the other big change in the media landscape for kids and parents, the report from Common Sense Media finds.
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Some Trump voters want him to rein in health care costs. It's unclear if he will

Noam Levey

In polls and focus groups, Trump voters say they want the government to do something about big medical bills. It's a big change from 5 years ago, pollsters say, and may not be on Trump's agenda.
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Did a new Alzheimer's drug keep this patient's brain healthier for longer?

Jon Hamilton

Sue Bell became one of the first Alzheimer's patients in the U.S. to receive the drug now marketed as Leqembi. Her husband isn't sure if it made a difference.