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Nsikan Akpan

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Covers:  mental health, public health, environment, nature, pediatrics, outbreaks, stroke, neuroscience, infectious disease
Highly melanated. Managing Editor, @ThinkGlobalHlth/@CFR_org. BSky: monscience.bsky.social Past: WNYC, NatGeo, PBS NewsHour | PhD pathobiologist | YNWA

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Nsikan Akpan is the managing editor for Think Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He previously worked for New York Public Radio as the health and science editor for the WNYC/Gothamist newsroom.

Before NYPR, he worked at National Geographic as a science editor overseeing its COVID-19 coverage, and as a science producer for PBS NewsHour, where he co-created an award-winning video series named ScienceScope. He shared a 2020 Emmy for the PBS NewsHour series “Stopping a Killer…

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How To Master Your Third Arm

How To Master Your Third Arm

In the 2002 movie Minority Report, Tom Cruise plays with a futuristic computer like a maestro. With a flick o…

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Gecko adhesion takes electric turn

Gecko adhesion takes electric turn

Challenging a favored theory, measurements suggest that electrostatic interactions make gecko feet superstick…

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Mold behind 2013 yogurt recall may cause disease

Mold behind 2013 yogurt recall may cause disease

Genome sequencing links a new, virulent strain of mold to the 2013 Chobani yogurt recall.

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Microplastics lodge in crab gills and guts

Microplastics lodge in crab gills and guts

Crabs can absorb microplastic particles through their gills and by eating polluted mussels.

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Supercooling makes livers for transplants last longer

Supercooling makes livers for transplants last longer

Chilling to subzero temperatures greatly increased survival time of rats' organs outside the body.

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Invasive insect tied to shrinking river

Invasive insect tied to shrinking river

A river in North Carolina shrank after a hemlock woolly adelgid eradicated eastern hemlock trees in the regio…

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Feeding Dignity: A 2026 Blueprint for Food Aid in a Divided World

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By Sabeeha Quereshi, Roxane Feller, Rajeev Tyagi, Nsikan Akpan Verified
| Think Global Health
From Sudan to San Francisco, food aid is under siege, and children are set to experience unprecedented, preventable hunger. Nearly 58 million people globally are at imminent risk of losing food assistance due to massive international aid cuts. In the United States, families are seeing their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits shrink as food banks struggle to meet demand.
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Former Head of Gavi on the U.S. Retreat from Vaccines

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By Allison Krugman, Peter Singer Verified, Nsikan Akpan Verified, Gareth Jones
| Think Global Health
On January 5, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) changed the country's childhood vaccine schedule to cover 11 diseases instead of 17, no longer recommending routine protections for flu, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningitis, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and rotavirus. The new schedule more closely resembles Denmark's, despite broad differences in the two countries' populations and health systems.
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U.S. Egg Prices See Largest Jump Since 1980 as Bird Flu Outbreaks Continue

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By Nsikan Akpan Verified
| Think Global Health
Originally published on February 12, 2025; Updated on March 12, 2025 On Wednesday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shared its latest update on consumer prices, showing that the average cost of a dozen large grade A eggs increased nearly $1 in a single month—to $5.89. February's price jump is the largest since 1980–even after adjusting for inflation and beats the record set by January's price data.
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Medical Daily

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Nope.

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