Health & Safety

Florida's response to a measles outbreak endangers children, experts say

4:28pm February 27, 2024

by Pien Huang

A measles outbreak in a Florida elementary school flummoxes public health experts, who say the state surgeon general's response contradicts established public health measures to contain the virus.

Senator Tammy Duckworth says she has been trying to build bipartisan support for IVF access for years.

After Alabama's ruling, this senator's bill aims to protect national access to IVF

4:28pm February 27, 2024

Senator Tammy Duckworth has introduced a bill to protect access to IVF. She tells NPR about her own experience with fertility treatments and her attempts to build bipartisan support for her bill.

A 7-month-old child with diarrhea lies in a bed at a hospital in India. Oral rehydration salts are a cheap and effective treatment but are underused. A new study aims to find out why.

Health & Safety

There's a cheap and effective way to treat childhood diarrhea. So why is it underused?

1:24pm February 27, 2024

by Kamala Thiagarajan

A new study seeks to find the reasons that health-care personnel avoid the easy treatment for this potentially life-threatening condition.

The $1 billion donation from Ruth Gottesman to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine is one of the largest-ever charitable gifts to an educational institution in the United States.

Tuition will be free at a New York City medical school thanks to a $1 billion gift

11:29am February 27, 2024

by Ayana Archie

Ruth Gottesman is a professor emerita of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Gottesman's late husband, David, left the money to her upon his death.

Health & Safety

NCDHHS partners with federal programs to address inequities in sickle cell disease treatment

10:17am February 27, 2024

by Neal Charnoff

North Carolina is teaming with the federal government to strengthen access to new sickle cell disease therapies.

The $81,739.40 bill for her mother's air-ambulance ride arrived less than two weeks after she died, Alicia Wieberg said.

Health & Safety

Her air-ambulance ride wasn't covered by Medicare. It will cost her family $81,739

9:27am February 27, 2024

A frugal Tennessee resident opted out of Medicare Part B, which carries $175 monthly premiums. Now her heirs face a huge bill for an air-ambulance ride.

Public health experts raise the alarm in South Florida over a measles outbreak

5:03am February 27, 2024

by Kate Payne

Florida is counting more cases of measles as the state's surgeon general defies federal guidelines and declines to urge people to vaccinate their children.

Can a simulation platform better decide how to spend opioid settlement money?

5:03am February 27, 2024

by Aneri Pattani

Mobile, Ala., like other communities benefiting from opioid settlement dollars, weighs whether to treat people in crisis now or invest in long-term solutions to cut future addiction rates.

ProLife Across America, a national nonprofit, has placed multiple anti-abortion billboards in Rapid City, South Dakota.

What counts as an exception to South Dakota's abortion ban? A video may soon explain

5:00am February 27, 2024

by Arielle Zionts

South Dakota allows doctors to terminate a pregnancy only if a patient's life is in jeopardy. Lawmakers say a government-created video would clarify what that exception actually means.

In this Jan. 11, 2008 file photo, a bottle of Eli Lilly & Co.'s Prozac is pictured at a company facility in Plainfield, Ind.

Health & Safety

The rate of antidepressants prescribed to young people surged during the pandemic

5:00am February 27, 2024

by Ayana Archie

Researchers analyzed a sample of about 221 million prescriptions from 2016 to 2022, in Americans between the ages of 12 and 25. The increase was prominent among young women and girls.