Category: NPR

New York University students cheered, but critics say waiving tuition isn’t the best way to ease student debt or boost the number of primary care doctors from diverse backgrounds.

Foster parents often struggle to meet their charges’ extraordinary health needs. Some states are testing out a coordinated approach to care to keep these kids from slipping through the cracks.

An analysis by the state shows Medicaid expansion has cut in half the number of uninsured Ohioans. Most recipients said the expansion made it easier to find work and care for their families.

Author Beth Macy details opioids’ odyssey from medicine to scourge, in her book about young heroin users, their long-suffering parents, doctors, drug company executives, cops, judges and drug dealers.

While a majority of Americans know about naloxone, there is confusion about the fact that in most places a prescription isn’t required to obtain the emergency overdose treatment.

Critics worry a new contraception app, which allows women to track body temperature and menstrual cycle to avoid pregnancy, isn’t as effective as other methods. But some women welcome another option.

There’s a big survival gap between white and minority children when it comes to some childhood cancers. It turns out growing up in poverty explains a lot of the difference.

These days hospitals are looking for ways to improve health in their communities to prevent illness and control costs. One hospital in Ohio decided that health might start with affordable housing.

States are battling the pharmaceutical industry in court to curb the opioid epidemic. NPR’s Jennifer Ludden asks Richard Ausness, a law professor at the University of Kentucky, about the tactic.

Officials in Texas are responding to the findings of an investigation by NPR and the Center for Public Integrity into drugmakers’ influence over medication choices for Medicaid patients.