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Pfizer’s CEO sold $5.6 million worth of stock on Monday. The company says the stock sale was made as part of a preset plan. But NPR found irregularities about when the CEO entered into that plan.

NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Shankar Kurra, vice president of medical affairs at Rapid City Hospital in South Dakota, about the staffing shortage at his hospital amid the surge of coronavirus cases.

A single injection of a drug called cabotegravir given every two months has been shown to be more effective than a daily oral dose of Truvada.

Hospitals, a powerful political force in health care, fear lowering the eligibility age for Medicare will cost them billions of dollars because federal reimbursements are less than private insurance.

For five decades, NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center has confronted the ways disparities can hurt its patients’ health. Community leaders say it’s a model for cities facing similar struggles.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was honored Tuesday as “a reassuring champion of science and reason” by the New York City borough of Brooklyn, where he was born and raised.

Katherine Standefer was uninsured and working as a hiking guide when diagnosed with a genetic heart condition. She chronicles her experience with an implanted heart device in Lightning Flowers.

There would be enormous consequences were the court to throw out the ACA, which has survived twice in the high court. But the court’s makeup is very different now than on those past occasions.

Gen. Gustave Perna says as soon as the FDA deems a vaccine safe and effective, his team is ready to coordinate deployment of tens of millions of doses as early as next month.

The Supreme Court will hear a case Tuesday questioning the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with medical pricing expert Erin Fuse Brown about what’s at stake.