Health

In La Paz, a low-income neighborhood on the outskirts of Santa Marta, Colombia, water service from the local utility can be erratic or nonexistent. Pictured: Neighborhood kids stand next to …

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Kimberly Van Orden of the University of Rochester Medical Center about persistently high suicide rates among elderly men.

When Sarah Barak, standing here outside her Seattle home, needed an operation for her injured thumb, her surgeon gave her unsolicited advice to lose weight. People with larger bodies often …

A man wearing an Israeli flag looks toward ambulances outside a hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Nov. 24. Erik Marmor/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Erik Marmor/Getty Images A …

The Indigenous Achuar people in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest sail in six solar-powered canoes. And it’s not just to save money on fuel — the trees of the rainforest will benefit …

In flu season, many turn to home remedies. From Eastern Europe, there’s gogl-mogl – a milk/yolk/honey concoction both loved and dreaded. (Story first aired on Morning Edition on November 30, …

In this week’s StoryCorps, a conversation with Joseph Rogers Britton, a caregiver who has been working with AIDS patients for four decades. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It’s Friday, which is when …

Around 600,000 people in the state will now have access to low-cost health insurance. The change will particularly benefit people in poor, rural areas. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today, North Carolina …

Malichita and Rudy brand cantaloupes, which may show up in some pre-cut mixes, are believed to be behind a growing outbreak of salmonella infections across the U.S. and Canada. Joe …

“Allo” is Greek for “other.” Alloparents are helpful relatives and neighbors. In a study from Congo, babies had 8 alloparents on average. Perhaps the self-reliant nuclear family is a societal …