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DER Weekends: WDET’s Shustho series explores how language access affects health care for Bangladeshi women

Sascha Raiyn, Nargis Rahman May 3, 2025

On this episode of Detroit Evening Report Weekends, we listen to the first story in WDET reporter Nargis Rahman's series...

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MichMash: Preventing youth tobacco usage + more candidates eye Michigan US Senate Race

Hernz Laguerre April 25, 2025

Subscribe to MichMash on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode: Meet the new...

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Water affordability bills reintroduced in Michigan Senate

Alex McLenon April 24, 2025

A bill package from last year’s legislative session aimed at improving water affordability has been reintroduced in the Michigan Senate.Senate...

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Dearborn Director of Public Health Ali Abazeed (right) speaks about the installation of a NARCAN vending machine in the lobby of the city's transit center, Nov. 16, 2022.
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The Metro: What’s behind Dearborn’s drastic drop in fatal overdoses?

Sam Corey, Robyn Vincent, The Metro April 23, 2025

Overdose deaths have been falling nationally, statewide and now locally.  Last year, at the national level, these kinds of deaths...

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference on the Autism report by the CDC at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
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The Metro: Demystifying and fighting misinformation about autism and those who have it

Robyn Vincent, The Metro April 23, 2025

Many have criticized U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in recent weeks for making sweeping claims about the cause...

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Detroit Evening Report: Detroit ranks among worst in nation for particle pollution, report finds

Jerome Vaughn April 23, 2025

Detroit has some of the worst air quality in the nation, according to a report released Wednesday by the American...

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The Metro: How children’s education impacts parental dementia risk

Sascha Raiyn, Tia Graham, The Metro April 23, 2025

Dementia affects more than six million Americans, according to the National Institutes of Health, accounting for more than 100,000 deaths...

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The Metro: Congresswoman Tlaib on improving Black maternal health outcomes

Tia Graham, Sam Corey, The Metro April 21, 2025

 The United States spends more on health care costs than any other rich nation, yet maternal death rates remain...

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a directive calling on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to come up with an analysis of how federal budget cuts could affect Medicaid services, April 17, 2025.
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Whitmer directs state agencies to gather info to fight fed cuts

Rick Pluta April 18, 2025

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive Thursday calling on the state health department to create a report on how...

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Dr. Mona Hanna joins The Metro to talk about Rx Kids, a program that provides financial support to pregnant women, now expanding to Wayne County.
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The Metro: A prescription for poverty — program paying pregnant moms expands to Wayne County

Robyn Vincent, Tia Graham, Jack Filbrandt, The Metro April 17, 2025

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. The U.S. health care system has failed to take care of...

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