Health

The CDC is dropping its isolation guidance for COVID, instead advising around respiratory viruses in general. The change reflects the reality that severe outcomes are less frequent, says the director.

As marijuana has gone mainstream in America, lawmakers in states that legalized it are now grappling with a new question: Should high-potency pot products be regulated differently?

Oprah Winfrey, pictured in January, said she will donate her stake in WeightWatchers and proceeds from any future stock options to the National Museum of African American History and Culture …

The CDC has overhauled its COVID-19 isolation guidelines, saying the virus no longer represents the same threat to public health as it did several years ago. Markus Schreiber/AP hide caption …

A team of researchers tried something that’s never been done as a conflict rages. Instead of trying to calculate the toll of war in the moment, they looked forward. What’s …

Host Wendy Williams appears at the Soul Train Awards in Las Vegas on Nov. 7, 2014. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Host Wendy Williams appears at the …

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Allen G. Breed/AP hide caption toggle caption Allen …

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is working toward regulation to remove medical bills from consumer credit reports. Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael …

A walk-out by South Korean doctors has hobbled the country’s medical system. Most of them have defied a government ultimatum to return to work by Thursday. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: …

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with reporter Anya Kamenetz about an Arabic-language remote learning program called “Ahlan Simsim.” It’s a show by the Sesame Workshop, created for Syrian refugees.