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Headstones and American flags are seen at the Arlington National Cemetery, United States military cemetery in Virginia, United States on May 29, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Is America a death cult?

Troy Farah
Colony of Little Brown Bats (Getty Images/Joe McDonald)

Prevent the next pandemic. Avoid bats

Steve Osofsky, Susan Lieberman - Undark
Linda Noneo's work as a community health representative for her tribe in Nevada is focused on providing transportation to health care appointments for Fallon Paiute-Shoshone members. (JAZMIN OROZCO RODRIGUEZ/KFF HEALTH NEWS)

Nevada paying tribal workers better

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez - KFF Health News
Handguns that were swapped for gift cards during a Los Angeles Police Department sponsored gun buyback event in Los Angeles, California on December 13, 2014. (MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Gun violence is a public health crisis

Dan Falk - Undark
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Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

Highly-mutated Covid strain identified

Elizabeth Hlavinka
(Getty/Stuart Ritchie)

Opioid settlement cash going to police

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The parking lot is nearly deserted at Forest Plaza on March 24, 2020 in Rockford, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Why is America going backward?

Mike Lofgren
Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) on human skin (Getty Images/epantha)

A mysterious tick-related meat allergy

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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'The London Bathing Season,' from Punch, or the London Charivari, June 18, 1859. (The Cartoon Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Climate change could make a Great Stink

Matthew Rozsa
An Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Afp/getty Images)

Mosquitos bringing malaria north

Mary Katherine Wildeman - Grist
PCR testing site for COVID-19 variants at a new test facility at Tom Bradley International Terminal (Terminal B) that health officials hope will help them spot new variants that may emerge from passengers arriving from other countries at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday, Jan. 2, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The CDC has stopped tracking COVID cases

Nicole Karlis
A woman wearing a mask walks in the crowd (Arne Dedert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

All my COVID precautions were in vain

Maggie Mills
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Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

Oregon bans PFAS in food containers

Joseph Winters - Grist
Man standing alone in space (Getty Images/Yagi Studio)

Why loneliness is as deadly as smoking

Matthew Rozsa
Attendees listen during the 22nd session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, focusing on "Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach" at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on April 20, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Indigenous health tied to environment

Pauly Denetclaw - Grist
A protester holds up a placard demanding research into Long Covid-19 during the demonstration. (Martin Pope/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Is long COVID a ticking time bomb?

Philip Finkelstein
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A stop sign in the Delaware River at Penn Treaty Park in Philadelphia, Pa., on March 26, 2023. Water in Philadelphia has been deemed unsafe to drink following a chemical spill in the Delaware River, leading to water bottles being sold out across the city. (Thomas Hengge/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The growing list of chemical accidents

Max Graham - Grist
Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a protest on September 12, 2019 outside Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, over their recent controversial opioid settlement. Participants dropped hundreds prescription bottles of OxyContin while holding tombstones with the names of opioids casualties and banners reading "Shame on Sackler" and "200 Dead Each Day". (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Biden quiet on opioid settlements

Aneri Pattani - KFF Health News
Volunteers hand out food during an aid distribution event. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Older Californians dying of malnutrition

Phillip Reese - KFF Health News
Man taking off his surgical mask (Getty Images/Andres Barrionuevo Lopez)

Premature Mission Accomplished on COVID?

Troy Farah
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PrEP pills to help protect people from HIV (Getty Images/YakubovAlim)

PrEP ruling will increase HIV spread

Nicole Karlis
Boy reaching up to a bedroom drawer that contains a gun. (Getty Images/Gilbert Laurie)

How unsecured guns are killing children

Nicole Karlis
Side view of mature woman embracing man from behind against clear sky (Getty Images/The Good Brigade)

The X chromosome's superpower

Nicole Karlis
Books on a desk in the library (Getty Images/jovan_epn)

ACT UP slams new AIDS denialism book

Joy Saha
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