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May 2, 2024 | 
time.com | Tara Law |Jamie Ducharme |Alice Park |Joel F. Habener
May 2, 2024 8:17 AM EDTIn the next decade, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) aims to replace all the country’s lead pipes. Few did more to bring about the change than Ronnie Levin, who published a cost-benefit analysis in 2023 on cutting lead in drinking water, tallying the dollar costs of problems like impaired cognitive function and increased risk of health issues like hypertension and preterm birth, against the cost of mitigating the lead.
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May 2, 2024 | 
time.com | Will Henshall |Jamie Ducharme |Alice Park |Joel F. Habener
By Will HenshallMay 2, 2024 8:17 AM EDTProteins, each with their own unique three-dimensional architecture, are the body’s molecular tools, adapted to perform the specific tasks necessary for maintaining life. For decades, researchers have modified proteins to augment or alter their function. Insulin lispro, for example, is a modified form of naturally occurring insulin that removes sugar from the blood more rapidly than the original protein, making it a useful diabetes drug.
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May 2, 2024 | 
time.com | Jeffrey Kluger |Jamie Ducharme |Alice Park |Joel F. Habener
May 2, 2024 8:17 AM EDTPolio eradication has largely been a global vaccination success story. The disease, which can lead to paralysis or death, mostly in children, now circulates only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. On the front lines in the effort to stamp it out is Dr. Shahzad Baig, national coordinator of Pakistan’s polio-eradication program.
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May 2, 2024 | 
time.com | Tara Law |Jamie Ducharme |Alice Park |Joel F. Habener
May 2, 2024 8:17 AM EDTAfter a 2011 motorbike accident, Gert-Jan Oskam lost his ability to walk. The portion of his spinal cord that connects to his legs was damaged, severing his brain’s ability to send signals to make his legs move. “If you have a spinal-cord injury, the brain is sending a command to the legs, but it’s interrupted at the level of the injury,” says Dr. Jocelyne Bloch, a neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland.
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May 2, 2024 | 
time.com | Sanya Mansoor |Jamie Ducharme |Alice Park |Joel F. Habener
May 2, 2024 8:17 AM EDTIn 2023, migrants arrived at the U.S. southern border in record numbers, often malnourished and ill. The Migrant Clinicians Network, based in Austin, offers those with urgent medical needs a lifeline. Kim Nolte, the group’s CEO, says it helped more than 1,700 migrants access health care last year, and more than two-thirds were pregnant.
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May 2, 2024 | 
time.com | Jeffrey Kluger |Jamie Ducharme |Alice Park |Joel F. Habener
May 2, 2024 8:15 AM EDTI never expected the likes of former President Jimmy Carter to traffic much in vanity, but the one time I spoke to him, back in 2006, he allowed himself a tiny flicker of it.
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May 2, 2024 | 
time.com | Angela Haupt |Jamie Ducharme |Alice Park |Joel F. Habener
May 2, 2024 8:15 AM EDTIt’s a Monday morning in late March, and Dan Doctoroff is explaining how he’ll die from ALS. “Respiratory failure,” he says calmly, without breaking eye contact, from his home in New York. “Your diaphragm doesn’t work; your muscles that control your breathing don’t work.”Doctoroff helped rebuild New York City after 9/11 as deputy mayor, playing a key role in the development of landmarks like Hudson Yards, parks on Governors Island, and Yankee Stadium.
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May 2, 2024 | 
time.com | Angela Haupt |Jamie Ducharme |Alice Park |Joel F. Habener
May 2, 2024 8:15 AM EDTIt’s a Monday morning in late March, and Dan Doctoroff is explaining how he’ll die from ALS. “Respiratory failure,” he says calmly, without breaking eye contact, from his home in New York. “Your diaphragm doesn’t work; your muscles that control your breathing don’t work.”Doctoroff helped rebuild New York City after 9/11 as deputy mayor, playing a key role in the development of landmarks like Hudson Yards, parks on Governors Island, and Yankee Stadium.
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May 2, 2024 | 
time.com | Kelly Mickle |Jamie Ducharme |Alice Park |Joel F. Habener
May 2, 2024 8:14 AM EDTThe French President sealed the guaranteed right to abortion into thecountry’s constitution on International Women’s Day 2024, declaring it areminder of “the fate of generations of women deprived of the mostintimate of choices: whether or not to have a child.” Beyond women’s autonomy, abortion access has major implications for public health, as pregnancy and childbirth can be life-threatening and can lead to lifelong health conditions.
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May 2, 2024 | 
time.com | Kelly Mickle |Jamie Ducharme |Alice Park |Joel F. Habener
May 2, 2024 8:14 AM EDTIn March 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a ban on chrysotile asbestos. It’s the last type of asbestos still legal in the U.S. (typically found in car parts and some chlorine bleach) and has already been banned in 50 other countries. The toxic chemical has been linked to lung cancer, ovarian cancer, laryngeal cancer, and mesothelioma, a cancer that develops in the lining of some internal organs.
