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AI is making health care safer in the remote Amazon

The Amazonian municipality of Caracaraí has 22,000 inhabitants and an overworked pharmacist named Samuel Andrade. Andrade arrives at work at 8 a.m. to handle hundreds of prescriptions from free government...

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Pharmacy attendant Leide Tavares Almeida works at a public health center's pharmacy in Caracaraí, Roraima on April 2, 2025.
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Instagram helps Brazilians dodge a national sales ban on vapes

On August 3, Love Disk, a tobacco and liquor shop, posted an ad of a saleswoman holding three vapes up to the camera on Instagram. “The little beloved ones have...

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In one of the squares near his workplace in Rio de Janeiro, Bernardo takes advantage of his break to smoke a vape.
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