Health

NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Médecins Sans Frontières Secretary General Chris Lockyear about the view from Gaza, and how the organization is operating there. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Famine is imminent …

Kentucky has one black lung doctor left after the state legislature restricted who can review workers’ compensation claims for the disease. This came amid a surge in black lung cases …

The U.S. ranks higher in the world happiness report when it comes to people aged 60 and older. Thomas Barwick/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Thomas Barwick/Getty Images The U.S. …

Shell’s petrochemical complex along the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pa., June 2022. Reid R. Frazier/The Allegheny Front hide caption toggle caption Reid R. Frazier/The Allegheny Front Shell’s petrochemical complex …

Laurie Ayala works out of an office deep in Northwestern Medicine’s Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago, IL. Whenever the small, black landline phone on her desk rings, she answers. This …

For International Day of Happiness, photographers sent us pictures of a Syrian boy who finds joy caring for farm animals, Ukrainian girls on a trampoline, music lovers grooving to the …

Pfizer’s Paxlovid combines two antiviral drugs to fight the virus that causes COVID-19. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images Pfizer’s Paxlovid combines two antiviral drugs to …

Two new government studies found no medical explanation for the cluster of symptoms known as Havana syndrome.

More than a million abortions were provided in the U.S. in 2023. That’s a major finding from a report published Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports …

Two new government studies found no unusual pattern of injury or illness in people with the mysterious cluster of symptoms known as Havana syndrome. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Two new government …