Health

Water utilities and chemical companies are mounting legal challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent rule putting limits on six “forever chemicals” in drinking water. LEILA FADEL, HOST: Water utilities …

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wants tobacco-style warning labels for social media. NPR’s Leila Fadel talks to clinical psychologist Michaeline Jensen, who has studied social media’s effect on kids. LEILA FADEL, …

New research projects higher cancer rates for Gen X when they hit age 60 compared to Baby Boomers. FatCamera/Getty Images/E+ hide caption toggle caption FatCamera/Getty Images/E+ As they head into …

In severe pain and uncertain of its cause, Tieqiao Zhang of Dallas says he didn’t want to wait for an appointment with his regular doctor, but he also wasn’t sure …

Doctors are concerned by a backlash against sunscreen that is spreading on social media. Recent surveys suggest many younger Americans are buying into this misinformation.

A hospital in New Jersey is among several that have moved nurse managers, who oversee scores of bedside nurses on a unit, to a four-day work week to address burnout …

Marvin Ruckle, who has worked as a NICU nurse at an Ascension hospital in Kansas, said problems caused by the cyberattack nearly led him to administer the wrong dose of …

Judy and Howie Blatt in 1996. Sacha Pfeiffer/NPR hide caption toggle caption Sacha Pfeiffer/NPR In 1983, Howard Blatt was a middle-aged married father working as an electrical engineer at MIT …

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People rested at the Oregon Convention Center cooling station in Portland, Oregon during a record-breaking heat wave in 2021. FEMA has never responded to an extreme heat emergency, but some …