Category: NPR

This was the year a lot people finally exhaled. The pandemic was declared no longer an emergency. But viral threats are still with us and there are lessons we still haven’t learned.

More than half of American counties don’t have an obstetrician. Family physicians, working in teams with proper support, could be the answer to the crisis in rural obstetric care.

The new podcast Imminent Danger looks at the troubling medical career of one OB-GYN and what it tells us about how doctors are vetted in the United States.

Experts warn that new tropical viruses are headed for the U.S. – and the country should take active measures to fend them off.

The case involves just one abortion, but it’s likely to have wider implications in the state with some of the strictest abortion laws in the country.

Private care managers are often nurses or social workers, who help people navigate our fragmented health care system as they age. Increasingly, they are hired by “solo agers.”

Private care management, often nurses or social workers, is a growing field that helps people navigate the elder care system. People call it “a game changer” — but it comes at a high price.

As the period for changing health plans ends, many seniors are tuning out. They could wind up with a surprise next year: higher costs and reduced access to health care providers.

More than half say they’re not taking new patients, in a new survey. They report their existing patients need more attention for complex problems, and many keep months-long waitlists.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Andrew Gregory about his late wife, Casey McIntyre, and the medical debt cancellation fund she set up before she died earlier in November of ovarian cancer.