Category: NPR

Community leaders saw early in the pandemic that the city’s residents of color were being hit hard by COVID-19. They worked with data analysts to show just how hard, where and why.

In one of the poorest rural regions of the country’s poorest state, a Black entreprenuer is helping Black owned businesses open and thrive even during the pandemic.

PAs say the new title would clarify that they work in a team and don’t require oversight by M.D.s. Doctors say it obscures the fact that PAs have less education and training than physicians.

Scientists may not know for a couple weeks yet how risky the new coronavirus variant will be to public health. But getting out front now about what is known helps dispel misinformation, they say.

In D.C. and across the country, people gathered by the thousands in coordinated rallies to demand reproductive justice for all. The main message? Everyone loves someone who’s had an abortion.

Determined to improve the way doctors connect with their patients, a new wave of innovators are using technology to match people of color with culturally competent professionals.

Service dogs have long helped veterans with vision or mobility problems. Now the PAWS Veterans Therapy Act will help connect specially trained dogs to some veterans with symptoms of traumatic stress.

State rules were temporarily loosened in 2020 to help patients get care outside a doctor’s office. But is telehealth by phone safe and effective? State legislatures and insurers must soon decide.

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra says health providers who have exploited a complicated system to charge exorbitant rates will have to bear their share of the cost — or close.

Hours after the Food and Drug Administration authorized booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine for all adults 18 years and older, a panel of experts endorsed their use with a few caveats.