Health

People who are immunocompromised continue to worry about COVID. A raft of products promise protection. Is there any evidence they can protect from infection or lessen severity of disease?

The Supreme Court will hear the case against the abortion pill mifepristone on March 26. It’s part of a two-drug regimen with misoprostol for abortions in the first 10 weeks …

Salt Lake City sits in a bowl of a mountain valley where dirty air can get trapped for days during winter inversions. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption toggle caption Kirk Siegler/NPR …

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, pressed executives from Bristol Myers Squibb, Merck and Johnson & Johnson about the prices they charge …

“Conflict-related sexual violence” is as old as the Bible and as topical as current wars around the world. We talk to three experts about why it persists, why it’s underreported …

That’s the adjective used by the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Global Immunization Division. Can the world bring this outbreak under control? (Image credit: Tsvangirayi …

Physicians who admit to mental health or addiction issues typically are required to share more details and submit to scrutiny such as monitoring or periodic drug tests. ER Productions Limited/Getty …

Virginia lawmakers are considering bills that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to patients with terminal illnesses who’ve been given a prognosis of six months or less …

Psilocybin mushrooms jarred and ready for distribution at Uptown Fungus lab in Springfield, Ore. Oregon has decriminalized the use of the psychedelic drug. Craig Mitchelldyer/AP hide caption toggle caption Craig …

Advocates say the federal government no longer views long COVID with urgency. Private donors are funding research, bringing an unprecedented level of collaboration. (Story aired on ATC on 2/6/24.) Science …