Health

Lilla Lanivich, 14, and her service dog, Lopez, outside their family’s home in Rochester Hills, Mich. This year’s middle school winner of the NPR Student Podcast Challenge tells how her …

We all want to feel good in our bodies. But so many of us spend our days with achy backs, dried-out eyes and brain fog from too much screen time. …

Eggs branded Milo’s Poultry Farms, pictured above, and Tony’s Fresh Market were recalled after being linked to a salmonella outbreak. U.S. Food and Drug Administration hide caption toggle caption U.S. …

Snow geese take off from a field in Ruthsburg, Md., on Jan. 25, 2023. The current strain of bird flu has been detected in wild birds and poultry, as well …

E-cigarettes hit the market about 20 years ago, and became a hit among teenagers. A new survey, however, finds far fewer teens used e-cigarettes over the past year. A MARTÍNEZ, …

Husam Abukhedeir, a Palestinian neurosurgeon, left his native Gaza for the United Arab Emirates last November because he felt that conditions caused by the war had stripped him of his …

Zyn, Velo and other nicotine pouches are surging in popularity — the latest in a fast-moving industry selling nicotine in smokeless forms that they claim are less harmful than traditional …

Surging demand for new medicines to treat obesity and diabetes make it hard for many patients to get them. Michael Siluk/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael Siluk/Getty Images Bill …

It may seem logical to choose a treatment that takes 1 day versus one that works in 3 or 7 days. But doctors and patients say a 1 day treatment …

Kayode and Christiana Alabi both competed in table tennis at the Paris Paralympics. They each had polio in their childhood, growing up in Nigeria. BBC/Screenshot by NPR hide caption toggle …