Health

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the status of the “tripledemic” in the wake of Thanksgiving. AILSA CHANG, HOST: Top U.S. health officials today warned that three dangerous …

Condoms have been used to prevent pregnancy since the Middle Ages, with the rubber version arriving in the industrial mid-1800s. Over the years, they’ve become more effective and comfortable to …

Teonna Woolford, 31, in Owings Mills, Maryland on November 4, 2022. Woolford has sickle cell disease and has been unable to afford fertility preservation for years. Rosem Morton for NPR …

Sangeeta Siwan lost her job and wasn’t able to pay rent or feed her family. Her neighbors helped her survive. A study of giving in India during the pandemic shows …

Many kids are getting sick at the same time. NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe asks Vox senior public health reporter Dr. Keren Landman about the concept of “immunity debt.” (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED …

In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams plans to move homeless people with seeming mental illness to hospitals, possibly involuntarily. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: New York City Mayor Eric Adams is …

Residents wearing masks wait at a public bus stop in Beijing on Saturday. Chinese authorities announced a further easing of COVID-19 curbs with major cities such as Shenzhen and Beijing …

There were a record number of fatal drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2021. The Biden administration says it is making progress slowing the rate of deaths linked to fentanyl.

More than 3.5 million infusions of antibodies have been used to treat COVID. The treatment is being phased out because the antibodies have lost their efficacy against new variants of …

The lack of nursing home beds means that U.S. hospitals are caring for patients who don’t need to be hospitalized but have nowhere else to go. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: …