Category: NPR

Preventive care, like screening colonoscopies, is supposed to be free of charge to patients under the Affordable Care Act. But some hospitals haven’t gotten the memo.

A growing number of private insurance companies are starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people. Here’s what’s driving the trend.

Thanks to at-home testing, official reports are missing a lot of the COVID cases circulating now. Is the U.S. in the midst of an invisible surge? Here’s how to assess the situation where you live.

The deadly fire comes a year after four other newborns died in a hospital fire in Senegal, a nation known for having some of the best hospitals in the region.

Oklahoma now becomes the first state in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure.

The first results from an in-depth investigation of long COVID produced provocative results. Researchers don’t understand the mechanism behind the lingering symptoms but found a link with anxiety.

Aimed at serving a regional “abortion desert,” the clinic plans to open, despite the expected overturn of Roe v. Wade. It’s become a focal point for abortion debate in the state.

Advocates of the proposal say it would prevent overdoses, slow the spread of HIV and inspire drug users to seek help, while proponents say safe injection sites would create an “open drug scene.”

If abortion bans are enacted, millions would be forced to travel to less restrictive states, and some health providers are warning they may not be able to handle the surge in demand.

The virus hit Whidbey Island early in 2020, and photojournalist Lynn Johnson was there. A million deaths later, we return to see how the pandemic has subtly but indelibly altered life there forever.