Health

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with bioethicist and professor at Lehigh University, Michael Gusmano, about the ethics of using cloned, genetically modified pigs for human organ transplants.

In “Texas Hold ‘Em,” the singer is accompanied by a banjo. It’s often thought of as a quintessential Americana instrument. But the history of the banjo tells a different story.

California legislators in 2019 passed the law that requires all the state’s 33 public university campuses to provide abortion pills. It took effect in January 2023, but LAist found that …

States checking Medicaid eligibility have accidentally dropped coverage for people who do qualify. For homeless individuals in Montana, losing that coverage is dangerous and much harder to fix.

TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Tonya Mosley. Abortion is now on the ballot in Florida. Voters will decide in November whether to enshrine abortion rights into its …

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Women who say they’ve been harmed by Tennessee’s abortion bans will be in court on Thursday. Plaintiff Nicole Blackmon says she endangered her life carrying a fetus that had no …

More than 5,000 women are expected to give birth in the next month in Gaza. One clinic is offering free ultrasounds, and for many, it’s the first in their pregnancy.

An outbreak of mpox — formerly known as monkeypox — in the Democratic Republic of Congo has health experts concerned as the majority of deaths have been children.

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, abortion access advocates rallied at the Florida Supreme Court. Monday the court issued rulings that could significantly impact access …