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A brain-scanning MRI machine at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Trump admin hits brakes on Medicare law

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News

Feds want docs to screen you for drugs

Nicole Karlis
Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, left, Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, and Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Mary B. Neumayr, stand as EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler signs the Affordable Clean Energy Rule during a media availability at the Environmental Protection Agency, Wednesday, June 19, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

22 states sue Trump admin over EPA plan

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
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Shrink's orders: Pet the dog

Nicole Karlis
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Class-action & nursing home eligibility

Susan Jaffe - KFF Health News
(JASPER JACOBS/AFP/Getty Images)

The conversion of a former anti-vaxxer

John M. Glionna - KFF Health News
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How #MeToo is changing sex ed policies

Keren Landman - KFF Health News
Arctic polar bear and cubs in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Getty/sarkophoto)

Trump weakens Endangered Species Act

Matthew Rozsa
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A seagull struggles to take flight covered by a plastic bag, on the seashore at Caleta Portales beach in Valparaiso, Chile on July 17, 2018. (Getty/CLAUDIO REYES)

Plastic debris gets in seabirds' blood

Nicole Karlis
Kate Nash and Chris Lowell in "GLOW" (Ali Goldstein/Netflix)

"GLOW" gets migraines right

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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A car kicks up dust as it drives by corn fields on August 7, 2012 in State Center, Iowa. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Making the Dust Bowl look tame

Dan Samorodnitsky - Massive Science
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(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Trump EPA sued: refusal to ban pesticide

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) speaks during a rally at Howard University May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. The Sunrise Movement held an event for the final stop of the "Road to a Green New Deal" tour to "explore what the pain of the climate crisis looks like in D.C. and for the country and what the promise of the Green New Deal means." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

A planet in crisis

Aviva Chomsky - TomDispatch.com
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Will extreme risk protection laws work?

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
An injured person is tended to after a mass shooting at a country music festival on October 2, 2017 (Getty/Ethan Miller)

How hospitals prepare for mass shootings

Shira Tarlo
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A Cal Fire firefighter monitors a burning home as the Camp Fire moves through the area on November 9, 2018 in Magalia, California. (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Fires pose new risks for firefighters

Barbara Feder Ostrov - KFF Health News
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - AUGUST 24: A smoky haze obstructs the view of the San Francisco skyline on August 24, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Smoke from western wildfires has settled in the San Francisco Bay Area and has pushed the air quality into unhealthy levels. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

New West: Smoke in sky, purifier in home

Mark Kreidler - KFF Health News
at Chipotle's "Cultivate San Francisco" a culinary celebration in Golden Gate Park on June 8, 2013 in San Francisco, California. (Steve Jennings/Getty Images)

"Compostable" bowl isn't biodegradable

Molly Enking - Grist
FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2006 file photo, a doctor holds a vial of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil in his Chicago office. A national estimate suggests that nearly half of U.S. men have mostly silent infections caused by the sexually-transmitted human papilloma virus, and that 1 in 4 has strains linked with several cancers. The study was released Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) (AP)

Federal experts' confusing advice on HPV

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
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Frank Gehrke, right, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program for the Department of Water Resources, places the snow survey tube on a scale held by Nic Enstice, of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy while doing the manual snow survey at Phillips Station, Thursday, March 30, 2017, near Echo Summit, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) (AP)

More snow droughts with climate change

Adrienne Marshall - The Conversation
In this photo taken May 19, 2015, Judith Chase Gilbert, of Arlington, Va., is loaded into a PET scanner by Nuclear Medicine Technologist J.R. Aguilar at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. Gilbert shows no signs of memory problems but volunteered for a new kind of scan as part of a study peeking into healthy brains to check for clues about Alzheimer's disease. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Two encouraging Alzheimer's studies

Steven DeKosky, Todd Golde - The Conversation
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Why Boomers are binge-drinking more

Nicole Karlis
FILE - This Feb. 20, 2015 file photo, photo shows an arrangement of peanuts in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File) (AP)

Parents turning to new allergy treatment

Esther Landhuis - Undark
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