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The latest college campus freebies? Naloxone and fentanyl test strips

The teen fentanyl crisis is following students onto college campuses. Here's what students and staff are doing about it.
- Elissa Nadworny
Major U.S. science group lays out a path to smooth the energy transtion

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine says putting equity at the center of climate and energy policy will help speed along necessary fossil fuel emission cuts
- Alejandra Borunda
How gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations

Gas stoves emit potentially harmful pollutants, but utilities and their trade group avoided regulation with tactics perfected by the tobacco industry to cast doubt on science showing health problems.
- Jeff Brady
How Bogotá cares for its family caregivers: From dance classes to job training

More than a million women in Bogotá, Colombia, do unpaid family caregiver work full-time. The country has launched a groundbreaking program called "Care Blocks" to ease their burden.
- Rhitu Chatterjee
Scientists built the largest-ever map of the human brain. Here's what they found

A new atlas of the human brain could help explain abilities like language – and vulnerabilities, like Alzheimer's disease.
- Jon Hamilton
Kaiser health care workers in Washington state vote to strike

Thousands of Kaiser Permanente health care workers in Washington will go on strike next month if a new contract is not reached by the end of October. Contract negotiations between the healthcare giant and workers in the state have been ongoing since the spring.
- Kate Walters
Doctors in Gaza describe the war's devastating impact on hospitals and health care

After the brutal attack on Israel by Hamas militants, Israel has begun air strikes on Gaza. The World Health Organization warns that the health system there is at a breaking point.
- Ari Daniel
Financial losses slow for WA hospitals, but concerns remain

Hit hard by the pandemic, Hospitals in Washington state have been sounding the alarm since last year over steep financial losses. Last year’s operating losses totaled over $2 billion for hospitals across the state, according to the Washington State Hospital Association.
- Kate Walters
These Maya women softballers defy machismo — from their mighty bats to their bare toes

They call themselves Las Amazonas de Yaxunah. They've defeated gender stereotypes to become stars in Mexico. And these women and teens play the game wearing traditional Maya dresses — and no shoes.,
- Mark Viales
Vaccine hesitancy affects dog-owners, too, with many questioning the rabies shot

A survey finds that more than half of dog parents are doubtful about giving their pups the vaccine for rabies — a lethal disease that vaccination brought under control in the U.S.
- Pien Huang

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