Gabrielle Emanuel
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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With cholera on the rise around the world, the global vaccine stockpile is running dry. New doses go right to active outbreaks, with none left for prevention campaigns. Can vaccine makers catch up?
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The global cholera vaccine stockpile is empty at a time when there are outbreaks around the world. Last year, the WHO recommended the vaccine dose be cut in half to stretch the supply.
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Massachusetts is housing homeless people in hotels. That sometimes means pushing current hotel residents out of their rooms and into homelessness.
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The Massachusetts budget is in limbo as state politicians argue over funding for migrant shelters. Homeless and migrant families are facing uncertainty as winter begins.
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Rising temperatures and carbon dioxide levels give the toxic vine the oomph it needs to grow earlier, bigger and itchier, scientists say.
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Climate change appears to be making poison ivy thrive, with the plant growing faster, larger and more potent.
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In recent years, the number of children enrolled in a federal benefit program, Supplemental Security Income, has dropped. It provides assistance to people who are very poor and have a disability.
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Firefighters are on the front lines of the effort to regulate PFAS because they have been particularly exposed to these chemicals through their jobs and equipment.
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The EPA proposed new regulations for PFAS and PFOA in the nation's drinking water. The chemicals are part of a class of so-called forever chemicals associated with a variety of health problems.
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In Massachusetts, dozens of homeless people spend each night in emergency rooms even though they are not sick. The state guarantees a right to shelter, yet these people have nowhere else to go.