Health

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Much of the NIH-funded research on long COVID has focused on observing and understanding the disease. Some patients and doctors say the research should pivot toward finding new treatments and …

NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with American Medical Association President Bruce Scott about how physicians and patients are burdened by insurance companies’ systems of prior authorization. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: A lot …

It can be tricky to offer condolences to someone who is grieving. You want to show your friend you love them, but you also know there isn’t much you can …

Dakota Heath, 26, and Jordyn Glick, 27, at their apartment building in Lubbock, Texas. Heath takes care of Glick, who has an unpredictable and painful gastrointestinal disorder. Roughly a quarter …

Robert Christoffel, left, and Werner Hein at a Stammtisch in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Laurel Wamsley/NPR hide caption toggle caption Laurel Wamsley/NPR Five years ago I was in Berlin …

Windsor Johnston and her husband, Bob Edwards, in Switzerland during Christmas of 2017. Windsor Johnston hide caption toggle caption Windsor Johnston This month marks a series of “firsts” for me. …

Starting in January, Medicaid will cover traditional healing practices for Native Americans in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Oregon.

Federal regulators have cracked down on mushroom edibles containing Amanita muscaria — also known as fly agaric — after mounting safety concerns. Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/DPA/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle …

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