Health

The president’s new pick for surgeon general has been both supportive and critical of MAHA health policy. NPR’s Steve Inskeep speaks with Dr. Georges Benjamin, CEO of the American Public …

NPR’s Steve Inskeep speaks with former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams about President Trump’s latest nominee for the role, Dr. Nicole Saphier. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: All right. Let’s get a …

Cardiologist Eric Topol says resistance training, not just exercise, is key to longevity. Capuski/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Capuski/Getty Images It’s a strange moment for growing old. Longevity is …

President Donald Trump and Republican members of Congress at the signing ceremony for his tax cut and spending bill on July 4, 2025. That law makes it a requirement for …

It’s 2018 and cartoonist Gemma Correll is not doing well. In the midst of a week-long panic attack, she is trying everything to get her nervous system to calm down. …

Researchers tested an AI model against ER doctors and found the model outperformed the humans. shapecharge/E+/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption shapecharge/E+/Getty Images A patient shows up at the hospital …

start08/iStockphoto/Getty Images No one ever mentioned to Rick Rivers that his grandfather died of colorectal cancer — until Rivers himself was diagnosed at age 31. Cancer felt like a taboo …

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is promoting abstinence and 12-step addiction treatment programs that he says helped him recover from heroin use.

The U.S. health secretary says he wants to shift addiction care toward an approach that includes rural farms or camps for people in recovery. Many addiction experts say the idea …

A scanning electron micrograph of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause TB. BSIP/Universal Images Group via/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption BSIP/Universal Images Group via/Getty Images TB or not TB? That …