Health

“There’s actual studies that show that itching is contagious,” journalist Annie Lowrey says. “Watching somebody scratch will make a person scratch.” Kinga Krzeminska/Moment RF via Getty Images hide caption toggle …

Practicing yoga from home with online instruction proved beneficial to a group of people with chronic low back pain. AndreyPopov/iStockphoto/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption AndreyPopov/iStockphoto/Getty Images Online yoga classes …

A 2005 electron microscope image shows an avian influenza A H5N1 virion. Cynthia Goldsmith, Jackie Katz/CDC/AP hide caption toggle caption Cynthia Goldsmith, Jackie Katz/CDC/AP A case of H5 bird flu …

President-elect Donald Trump tried unsuccessfully to get rid of the Affordable Care Act during his first term. What action will he take this time around? STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: OK, so …

Lourdes Monje, diagnosed with breast cancer at 25, represents the new generation of cancer survivors — a person who is younger, less financially secure, and has to navigate life after …

NPR’s Leila Fadel talks with actor Patrick Dempsey about his efforts to raise money for cancer treatment and prevention.

Hospitals have been forced to innovate with new ways of hydrating patients and giving them medications, after a key factory that produces IV fluid bags flooded during Hurricane Helene. (This …

Photo illustration by Becky Harlan/NPR My 4-year-old dreads swimming lessons. Some nights, long past his bedtime, he calls me into his room and asks me, in a whisper, if he …

Your daily light exposure impacts your health. A new study finds that too much light at night and not enough natural light during the day can be harmful. This story …

An analysis of brains at various stages of Alzheimer’s found that neurons called inhibitory neurons are the first to be affected by the disease. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: It takes decades …