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Answers to your screen-time questions

Caroline Knorr - Common Sense Media
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A traumatic memory can be hard to shake

Jacek Debiec - The Conversation
FILE--In this Sept. 27, 2016 file photo, different strains of marijuana are displayed in West Salem Cannabis, a marijuana shop in Salem, Ore. (P Photo/Andrew Selsky, fileAP)

Eat, toke or vape

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
(AP/Matt Rourke)

Mistrial declared in J&J cancer case

Myron Levin - FairWarning
This Sept. 29, 2016 file photo, shows a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline under construction near the town of St. Anthony in Morton County, N.D. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

Energy board rushes giant Alaska project

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
In this May 22, 2014 photo, coffee beans harvested last year are stored at a coffee plantation in Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala. The region’s thousands of coffee farmers grow the smooth-flavored, aromatic Arabica beans enjoyed by coffee lovers around the world. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) (AP)

Coffee is destroying the environment

Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner - Independent Media Institute
Computer-generated representation of Naegleria fowleri in its ameboid trophozoite stage, in its flagellated stage, and in its cyst stage. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Brain-eating amoeba takes another life

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/vm)

Is the hospital overcharging you?

Stephanie Booth - Healthline
Tasuku Honjo; James P. Allison (Wikimedia/AP/Richard Drew,)

New cancer treatments warranted a Nobel

Sheena Cruickshank - The Conversation
(AP/Wayne Parry)

Almost all seabirds ingest plastic now

Lorraine Chow - Independent Media Institute
(AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

The losing battle against climate change

Dan Ross - Independent Media Institute
(Getty/FatCamera)

Workplace wellness gets contentious

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
(Getty Images)

When one door closes, another one opens

Sam Herron
(Getty/Photo montage by Salon)

Trump creating 'contraception deserts'

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Hidden role in federal rule-making

Sarah Jane Tribble - KFF Health News
FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, the City of Toledo water intake crib is surrounded by algae in Lake Erie, off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. Groups working to solve Lake Erie’s algae outbreaks agree that a key step will be targeting areas that are sending much of the algae-feeding phosphorus into the lake. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File) (AP)

Saving the Great Lakes

Valerie Vande Panne - Independent Media Institute
(Shutterstock)

"Brain tingles" that leave you senseless

Craig Richard - The Conversation
"Raised in the Shadow of the Bomb: Children of the Manhattan Project" by Deborah Leah Steinberg (AP/HO/Deborah Leah Steinberg)

My family's nuclear legacy

D. Leah Steinberg
(Getty/baona)

Staying in school crucial to health

Shanta R. Dube - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Chris Post)

Workers overdosing on the job

Jenny Gold - KFF Health News
(AP)

Red flags at surgery centers

Christina Jewett - KFF Health News
This photo shows view from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. (AP)

Climate change in national parks

Patrick Gonzalez - The Conversation
(AP Photo/USFWS, Jim Maragos)

Trump admin could harm marine monument

Sarah Okeson
Christine Blasey Ford testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (AP/Saul Loeb)

The effects of sexual assault trauma

Nicole Karlis
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