Health

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 …

ChatGPT, Claude and Character.AI are chatbots powered by artificial intelligence that people are using increasingly. Kiichiro Sato/AP hide caption toggle caption Kiichiro Sato/AP Increasingly, teens and adults are turning to …

This pangolin was confiscated from a smuggling ring that sold endangered animals to restaurants in China. Animals caught up in the wildlife trade pose a great risk of spillover diseases. …

File photo showing babies in a U.S. maternity ward. The fertility rate in the U.S. has dropped steadily. Last year, there were roughly 710,000 fewer children born in the U.S. …

Teens and young adults have a growing problem with sports betting and gaming. How can parents talk to their kids about gambling before it becomes a problem?

Oona Zenda/KFF Health News An elementary school teacher chose a low-price health insurance plan but soon realized she wasn’t clear about what it would mean for her family’s finances. “Once …

A woman at an abortion-rights protest in New York in 2023 holds a pregnancy test. The U.S. teen pregnancy rate in 2025 was 11.7 births per 1,000 females ages 15 …

The measles outbreak that started small and rural in Utah last June is now sickening hundreds in the Beehive state’s urban corridor. AILSA CHANG, HOST: Utah has updated its measles …

In 2020, Annabelle Gurwitch went to urgent care for a COVID-19 test and learned she had cancer. She writes about life as a “cancer slacker” in her memoir, The End …