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Changing climate proves challenging for people, plants

It was a normal day for Marcya Hill-Brown as she watered her plants. Less than a week later, they burned. Two weeks later, they...

Hunger in the heartland

When Delvonte Arnold was growing up in Gary, his family drove over 10 miles outside the city to get to a grocery store. The...

From our streets to the landfill

When you throw something away, it normally ends up in one of four places: the landfill, recycling, in the streets or someone else’s home. The...

Beautification: a solution to sewage overflow

When it rains excessively, the sewage from homes flows into the waterways, polluting local rivers and streams. With more than 60 sewage system overflows...

Study: Obesity increases breast cancer risk in Black women

New research suggests that obesity in Black women increases their risk of recurrence of breast cancer or even dying — more so than in...

New program provides scales to families with NICU babies

CareSource, a nonprofit health plan, started a program to provide families of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) babies with free scales to monitor their...

Big or small – anti-litter efforts keep our waterways and communities clean

Do you know what happens to that cup, straw and lid that is tossed out a car window and lands in the street? Unless...

Naloxone disparities a matter of life and death

Out of 10,000 doses of naloxone — a lifesaving drug which can reverse an opioid overdose — distributed throughout Indiana, only one dose went...

Founding CEO of Fathers and Families reflects on a legacy

Dr. Wallace McClaughlin’s father was a struggling minister who experienced racism, poverty and a broken health care system in the Jim Crow South. He died of a stroke at 60. McClaughlin was...

Indianapolis organizations work toward HIV-free future

In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) started an initiative to end the HIV epidemic by 2030. Dr. Virginia Caine, Marion...

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