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Participants walk in support and in memory of those lost, during American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Out of the Darkness Chicagoland Walk at Montrose Harbor on October 21, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images for American Foundation for Suicide Prevention hide caption

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School districts across the country will be able to order free COVID-19 tests from the federal government starting in early December. Patrick Sison/AP hide caption

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Free COVID tests headed to nation's schools

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Teresa Cox-Bates and her husband John Bates, along with their kids Eli, Ava and Issac. Teresa says HealthySteps has helped her face her own childhood trauma and be a better parent. Kholood Eid for NPR hide caption

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How to break the cycle of childhood trauma? Help a baby's parents

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Life expectancy in the U.S. is up in 2022, but it's still lower than before the pandemic. emholk/Getty Images hide caption

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U.S. life expectancy starts to recover after sharp pandemic decline

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Peter Antonacci to lead a new elections fraud office in July 2022, just a few months before Antonacci died inside the Capitol building. Jim Vondruska/Getty Images hide caption

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When the Center for Reproductive Rights first announced the lawsuit against Texas in March, there were five patient plaintiffs. Now there are 20. Sarah McCammon/NPR hide caption

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Texas abortion case heard before state's highest court, as more women join lawsuit

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Gregory says his wife would never have imagined the impact her fund would have. Andrew Gregory hide caption

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Before dying, she made a fund to cancel others' medical debt — nearly $70M worth

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New Zealand's new Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, center, formed a coalition government with Winston Peters, left, the leader of the New Zealand First party, and David Seymour, leader of ACT New Zealand. Marty Melville/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Palestinians evacuate the area following an Israeli airstrike on the Sousi mosque in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. Images of suffering, violence and death in Gaza and Israel have flooded the news since Oct. 7. MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Former first lady Rosalynn Carter attends a rally at the U.S. Capitol in March 2008 when she helped get the mental health parity law enacted. Carter died on Nov. 19 at age 96. Mandel Ngan /AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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First lady Rosalynn Carter's legacy on mental health boils down to one word: Hope

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Residents wearing face masks line up behind barricaded tapes for COVID mass testing near a residential area on May 15, 2022, in Beijing. The World Health Organization says it's made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children. Andy Wong/AP hide caption

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Healthy dogs romp in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in early October, after a storm caused severe flooding. Around the country a mysterious respiratory illness is making some dogs sick. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption

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Could a 'funky' pathogen be sickening dogs? Scientists search for clues

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Two brain circuits help determine whether there's too little salt, or too much. Aleksandr Zubkov/Getty Images hide caption

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Salty much? These brain cells decide when tasty becomes blech

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New research finds that a common microbe may be directly causing itchiness on the skin it colonizes. Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images hide caption

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What can trigger an itch? Scientists have found a new culprit

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Members of the Bengaluru Solidarity Group in Support of the Bhopal Struggle take part in a candlelight vigil to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster in Bangalore on December 2, 2014. Manjunath Kiran /AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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The world's worst industrial disaster harmed people even before they were born

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Another Ozempic side effect? Facing the holidays with no appetite

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