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Each week, 吃瓜不打烊 finds longer stories for you to enjoy. Today's selections are on USAID, social prescribing, the sex lives of seniors, and more.

鈥淗eartbreaking.鈥 鈥淒evastating.鈥 鈥淒ifficult and challenging.鈥 Such are the words used by health care workers, government officials and former U.S. Agency for International Development employees to describe the impact of the agency鈥檚 dissolution last year. (Baram, 3/11)

As "political depression" enters public discourse, therapists are encouraging people to engage with their communities. (Sanders, 3/8)

Eccentric though it might seem for a clinician to send someone out fishing, this kind of social prescribing, as it鈥檚 known, has become an important trend in health care around the world. (Dickson, 3/12)

With longevity comes the opportunity for an extended sex life, which some seniors find by staying active and open-minded. (Pearson, 3/6)

鈥淜eep the family healthy.鈥 Those were some of the last words Clifford Thomas鈥 mother said to him. But in Albany, a town with a health care monopoly and no Medicaid expansion, staying healthy is a luxury that many are priced out of. (Campbell, Toral and Rodr铆guez Pons, 3/9)

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