Health

Red light therapy has become the latest ray of hope in the wellness industry. If you listen to wellness influencers, you might think there’s nothing that red light therapy can’t …

In the film Project Hail Mary, middle school teacher Ryland Grace (played by Ryan Gosling) goes on a interstellar journey and conducts lab science in space in a quest to …

Humanity’s itchy little nuisance resists common pesticides and drives parents crazy. Will we ever be rid of head lice? Doctors say it’s unlikely.

A protester carries a sign that equates foreign aid with soft power during a rally near the U.S. Capitol to protest the dismantling of USAID, the international agency charged with …

TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Tonya Mosley. A new book by Portland doctor Mary Fariba Afsari opens with a vivid image of her trying to fit a …

DBenitostock/Moment RF/Getty Images Forty percent of Americans have their daily lives interrupted by uncomfortable bowel symptoms, according to the American Gastroenterological Association. That’s a lot of troubled guts. But Dr. …

Women install barricades to halt the shifting dunes that threaten to swamp the oasis outside their village of Kaou, Chad. The oasis feeds their only source of farmland, but oases …

The Artemis II crew — Christina Koch (left), Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman — have to share tight quarters aboard the Orion spacecraft on their way home. But …

More and more ambulances carry blood when responding to trauma scenes. Officials say transfusions before patients arrive at the hospital will save lives. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We’re going to talk …

Mohammad Saiyub (above, in a Mumbai quarter on a February day) appeared in a photo that went viral in the early days of the pandemic. He and his childhood buddy …