Category: NPR

From excessive hygiene to low-fiber diets, author Theresa MacPhail explores the deep-rooted causes of rising allergy rates in her new book Allergic.

New research shows that the U.S. is making progress in preventing new HIV infections but the gains are happening unevenly across racial and ethnic groups.

A team of researchers tracked thousands of people who took a daily multivitamin for three years. At the end of the first year they preformed slightly better on memory tests than people on a placebo.

Writer Eyal Press talks about Planned Parenthood and what a post-Roe U.S. reveals about the organization.

Many people affected by long COVID have lost their jobs and now rely on disability checks to try to survive. But getting approved for long-term federal disability for long COVID is a major challenge.

Opvee is similar to naloxone, the life-saving drug that has been used for decades to quickly counter overdoses of heroin, fentanyl and prescription painkillers.

Utah banned gender affirming surgery for trans youth in January, but now the state’s largest health care system has apparently abandoned plans to offer gender affirming surgeries for adults, too.

Utah banned gender affirming surgery for trans youth in January, but now the state’s largest health care system has apparently abandoned plans to offer gender affirming surgeries for adults, too.

NPR’s Sarah McCammon speaks with Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., about her efforts to push legislation that would make birth control available without a prescription and covered by insurance.

Ash Williams, an abortion doula in North Carolina, talks about the state’s new ban on most abortions past the 12-week mark.