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Frontline health care workers hold a demonstration outside Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on September 4. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption

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75,000 Kaiser nurses, pharmacists and other workers have walked off the job

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There are now 2 vaccines to slash the frightful toll of malaria

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Ziare Gearring (left) and his grandfather Ricky Brown pose for a portrait outside of their home in Los Angeles. The 65-year-old retired handyman had already been struggling, and taking in three grandsons after his ex-wife's sudden death has put him thousands of dollars behind on rent and utilities. Grace Widyatmadja/NPR hide caption

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Los Angeles is using AI to predict who might become homeless and help before they do

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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House event on August 29 where they announced the list of the first 10 medicines targeted for Medicare negotiations. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

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A Kenyan child receives the world's first malaria vaccine, approved nearly two years ago. This week, the World Health Organization approved a second vaccine for the mosquito-borne disease. It's called R21/Matrix-M and is intended for children between 5 and 36 months, who are among the most vulnerable to the disease. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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A 'dream' come true: Now there are 2 vaccines to slash the frightful toll of malaria

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'Eve' author says medicine often ignores female bodies. 'We've been guinea pigs'

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Alexis Perkins, 25, tried to get a prescription for PrEP during a recent visit to her OB-GYN in Atlanta, but her doctor did not feel confident prescribing it. Sam Whitehead/KFF Health News hide caption

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PrEP prevents HIV infections, but it's not reaching Black women

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An unidentified woman lies under a blanket in a cell in the Flathead County Detention Center in Kalispell, Montana. She has been held there for nearly a year after being found mentally unfit to stand trial on burglary charges, according to a jail official. Aaron Bolton/Montana Public Radio hide caption

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Kiran Joshi fills a copper vessel with water from Ashwanaula, a groundwater spring in the village of Raushil, where she lives with her family Viraj Nayar for NPR hide caption

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Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly Thomas Perlmann speaks in front of a picture of Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Monday. JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Nobel Prize goes to scientists who made mRNA COVID vaccines possible

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Hospitals are some of the biggest carbon polluters almost no one thinks about. The American health care system accounts for an estimated 8.5% of the country's carbon footprint. Reid Frazier/The Allegheny Front hide caption

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Health care has a massive carbon footprint. These doctors are trying to change that

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New research probes the relationship between certain genes and brain disorders like autism and schizophrenia. Jill George / NIH hide caption

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Brain cells, interrupted: How some genes may cause autism, epilepsy and schizophrenia

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Teresa Butler visits Trish and Glen Johnston at their home in Christchurch, New Zealand, to support Trish, 79, who gave up smoking four years ago. Trish is Māori and Glen is pākehā — a white New Zealander. Jinki Cambronero for NPR hide caption

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Curfew (Likoni March 27 2020) by Kenyan-British painter Michael Armitage, was inspired by an attack on ferry passengers by paramilitary police in Nairobi. The painting hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Jonathan Muzikar/The Museum of Modern Art, New York hide caption

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Peacemakers have a debrief before concluding their work for the day at the Lincoln Fields apartments complex in Miami, Fla. Lamont Nanton (second from left) is the group's manager and Shameka Pierce (third from left) works with the group. Verónica Zaragovia/WLRN hide caption

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PEPFAR, the U.S. multibillion dollar effort to fight HIV/AIDS, funds organizations such as the Coptic hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Brent Stirton/Getty Images hide caption

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Medical assistant Lakeisha Pratt (left,) and receptionist David Bowers prepare for a busy day at North Side Christian Health Center, a safety-net health center in Pittsburgh. Even a temporary government shutdown could disrupt funding and force the clinic to cut back. Sarah Boden / WESA hide caption

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