Health & Safety

Alabama Lawmakers Debate Bill To Ban Nearly All Abortions

7:25pm May 14, 2019

by Debbie Elliott

Lawmakers in Alabama are taking up an abortion bill Tuesday. If passed, it would be the strictest in the nation and its backers hope it paves the way for a Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade.

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New Liver Donation System Takes Effect Despite Ongoing Lawsuit

6:40pm May 14, 2019

by Blake Farmer

A new national system for allocating donor livers went into effect Tuesday, despite an ongoing lawsuit that says livers will now flow from more rural parts of the country to more populous cities.

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'Washington Post' Columnist Outlines What We Don't Know About Reproduction

6:12pm May 14, 2019

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse about her recent piece, "What we don't know about how a uterus works is going to hurt us all."

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A technician works in a lab at GeseDNA Technology in Beijing. To counter China, the U.S. plans to impose new export restrictions on "emerging and foundational technology" that researchers say could affect the way they share genetic materials with internat

Stopping Key Tech Exports To China Could Backfire, Researchers And Firms Say

12:27pm May 14, 2019

by Emily Feng

Some tech firms and researchers say plans to impose export restrictions on "emerging and foundational technology" would make it hard to thwart cyber threats and to cooperate globally in science.

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Visitors to Mercy's Fort Scott hospital would pass a tall white cross as they drove down a winding driveway before arriving at the front door. Sisters of Mercy nuns founded the hospital in 1886, and the newest building, constructed in 2002, honors that Ro

No Mercy: How A Kansas Town Is Grappling With Its Hospital's Closure

11:20am May 14, 2019

by Sarah Jane Tribble

People in Fort Scott, Kan., depended on their local hospital for more than a century. In December, the hospital closed. Fort Scott residents now are trying to cope with life without it.

Manisha Jaisi, 16, poses at the shed outside her house where she sleeps when she has her period. Jaisi got her period two months after her neighbor, Dambara Upadhyay, died of unknown causes while sleeping in a similar shed in 2016. Jaisi says she never go

Why It's So Hard To Stop Women From Sleeping In A Menstrual Shed

9:29pm May 13, 2019

by Danielle Preiss

In western Nepal, women often sleep in a hut outside the house during menstruation because of beliefs about impurity — and they sometimes die. The government is trying to end the practice.

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States Sue Drugmakers Over Alleged Generic-Price-Fixing Scheme

8:40pm May 13, 2019

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

A new lawsuit brought by 44 states and Puerto Rico alleges an "industrywide" conspiracy by generic drug manufacturers to collude on prices and divide up the market.

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Signs advertising free measles vaccines and providing information about measles are displayed at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y. The county in New York City's northern suburbs has had more than 200 measles cases since last fall.

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How Public Health Outreach Ended A 1990s Measles Outbreak And What's Different Now

7:21pm May 13, 2019

by Gwynne Hogan

This year's measles outbreak is the largest in recent memory. But from 1989 to 1991, more than 55,000 people got measles. Federal funding and parents embracing vaccines halted the outbreak.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Michael last year, a woman tries to recover belongings from the place where her house once stood in Mexico Beach, Florida.

With Hurricane Season Approaching, Researchers Work To Better Predict Storm Intensity

7:16pm May 13, 2019

by Greg Allen

Florida's experience with Hurricane Michael shows how difficult it is to accurately forecast a hurricane's intensity. Forecasters say more accurate forecasts are coming soon.

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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have launched a free online gun violence prevention course.

Free Gun Violence Prevention Course Launches To Educate Young Activists

6:28pm May 13, 2019

by Brakkton Booker

Researchers want new activists to lean on decades of public health research when engaging in work with policymakers and candidates seeking elective office.

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