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Jen Christensen
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Writer for http://CNN.com & Producer for CNN (Health, Climate, Social Justice, & Investigative). National VP of Broadcast NLGJA.🏳️‍🌈 she/her, Bennington, Butler grad
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Strain of bird flu virus never before reported in people is behind first human case in US in nine months | CNN
A Washington resident has been hospitalized with bird flu, according to the Washington State Health Department, and they’re infected with a strain of the virus that hasn’t been seen in humans before.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Doctors say they’re ‘measurably closer’ to making pig kidneys work for humans | CNN
Doctors at New York University say two new studies show that they are a significant step closer to making cross-species kidney transplants a real option in the near future.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Women face a much higher risk of homicide, especially from guns, during pregnancy | CNN
On April 9, 2020, after Shirley Scarborough called the prayer line like she did every morning, when she went to work she got a call from the police department in Richmond, Virginia. In a meeting, they...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Canada loses its measles elimination status amid large outbreak | CNN
Canada has lost its measles elimination status amid a large, ongoing outbreak of the virus, Public Health Agency of Canada said Monday.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Hidden genetic damage is part of CTE, too, study finds | CNN
The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced repeated blows to the head while playing contact sports and there’s now eviden...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Pig kidney removed from New Hampshire man after a world-record 271 days | CNN
A man who lived with a genetically modified pig kidney for a record 271 days had the organ removed and will return to dialysis.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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After cuts to research funding, Trump pledges millions for pediatric cancer initiative involving AI | CNN
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that the White House says will use artificial intelligence to transform the way scientists fight childhood cancer.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Trump administration threatens to pull federal funding from sex ed programs that mention transgender people | CNN
A division of the US Department of Health and Human Services told 40 states, five territories and the District of Columbia on Tuesday that they “are now on notice”: Some federally funded sex ed progra...
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August 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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FDA requires Covid vaccine makers to expand warning about risk of rare heart inflammation | CNN
The US Food and Drug Administration will now require Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna to use expanded warning labels with more information about the risk of a rare heart condition af...
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May 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Trump administration releases 400-page review of gender dysphoria treatment for youths but won’t say who wrote it | CNN
The US Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released a 400-page review of treatment for gender dysphoria in children but did not disclose who authored or reviewed the report.
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May 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Experimental GLP-1 pill helped people with diabetes lose weight and lower blood sugar, Eli Lilly says | CNN
Drugmaker Eli Lilly said Thursday that an experimental pill form of popular GLP-1 medications helped people with type 2 diabetes lose an average of nearly 8% of their body weight after 40 weeks and lo...
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April 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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April 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Experimental transplant of gene-edited pig liver into human offers hope for new frontier of research | CNN
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.
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March 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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March 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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CDC websites, datasets taken down as agency complies with Trump executive order | CNN
Several US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with...
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January 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Suicide attempts increased among transgender teens when states passed anti-trans laws, study says | CNN
People in the United States who identify as transgender or nonbinary make up only a tiny fraction of the population, but they’ve been the targets of an outsized share of negative attention from lawmak...
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November 4, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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Iowa resident dies of rare Lassa fever, officials say | CNN
A resident of eastern Iowa who had recently traveled to West Africa died after catching what is believed to be Lassa fever, officials said Monday. The virus, which is in the same viral hemorrhagic fev...
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November 4, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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A man was wheeled into surgery to harvest his organs. Weeks later, he left the hospital alive | CNN
Three years ago, Anthony Hoover woke up in a Kentucky hospital to find people shaving his chest, bathing his body in surgical solution and talking about harvesting his organs.
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November 4, 2024 at 4:04 PM