Health & Safety

In 'Served Like A Girl,' Female Veterans Face Inequality In VA Support

5:57pm May 27, 2018

NPR's Michel Martin talks with U.S. Army veteran Jas Boothe about the documentary Served Like a Girl, which follows female veterans as they prepare for the 2015 Ms. Veteran America competition.

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Samuel-Richard Bogobley holds a GPS-enabled tablet to capture the location of one corner of an underwater clam "farm" belonging to Kofi Amatey, in pink, in Ghana's Volta River estuary.

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Why Ghana's Clam Farmers Are Digging GPS

10:59am May 27, 2018

by Tim McDonnell

They have been working the same stretches of river for decades — but have no proof of ownership. Now technology comes to the rescue.

A poster put out by the U.S. Children's Bureau in 1918.

Parenting Advice From Uncle Sam

8:10am May 27, 2018

by Rebecca Davis

Nervous mothers and dads once had only family and friends to turn to for advice on kids. Then, in 1912, the U.S. government created an agency devoted to children, and queries from moms poured in.

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Guests bring beverages and food that remind them of loved ones. Amy Pickard provides the "death wine."

One Woman Helps Others Make Sure End-Of-Life Planning Is 'Good To Go'

8:12am May 26, 2018

by Lisa Napoli

After dealing with the sudden death of her mother, a Los Angeles woman has taken it upon herself to prepare others to grapple with getting their affairs in order.

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A Pakistani health worker administers the oral polio vaccine to a child during a campaign in Karachi on May 7. Because of past attacks on vaccinators, security personnel are often assigned to accompany them.

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Why It's So Hard To Wipe Out Polio In Pakistan

7:00am May 26, 2018

A report from the front lines. Obstacles range from violence aimed at vaccinators to social media campaigns against vaccines. Not to mention classism.

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'Reveal' Report Finds Drug Rehab Program Forcing Addicts To Work As Indentured Employees

6:16pm May 25, 2018

In North Carolina a rehab program uses drug offenders as care-givers for elderly and disabled patients. The participants work more than 100 hours a week without pay taking care of patients and dispensing the same drugs that they were addicted to. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Reveal's reporter Shoshana Walter about her investigation.

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Some personal injury law firms now automatically target online ads at anyone who enters a nearby hospital's emergency room and has a cellphone. The ads may show up on multiple devices for more than a month.

Digital Ambulance Chasers? Law Firms Send Ads To Patients' Phones Inside ERs

6:16pm May 25, 2018

by Bobby Allyn

Personal injury law firms are using location-based mobile ads to target people as they enter emergency rooms. The trend is raising concerns among patients and health privacy experts.

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A small bag of straight fentanyl on display at the State Crime Lab at the Ohio Attorney General's headquarters of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation in 2015. Nebraska police say they seized 118 pounds of fentanyl in April.

Nebraska Police Seize Record Amount Of Fentanyl

4:15pm May 25, 2018

by James Doubek

Nebraska law enforcement recently seized 118 pounds of drugs, which they now say was entirely fentanyl. It's one of the biggest fentanyl seizures in the U.S. and enough to kill millions of people.

"As bad as NYU is, Aetna is equally culpable because Aetna's job was to be the checks and balances and to be my advocate," said Michael Frank, seen at his home in Port Chester, N.Y.

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Why Your Health Insurer Doesn't Care About Your Big Bills

2:38pm May 25, 2018

by Marshall Allen

Patients may think their insurers are fighting on their behalf for the best prices. But saving patients money is often not their top priority. Just ask Michael Frank about his hip surgery.

Manoush Zomorodi: Has Constant Stimulation Replaced Boredom?

10:28am May 25, 2018

by NPR/TED Staff

With a never-ending stream of stimulation, we rarely experience boredom. But tech podcast host Manoush Zomorodi says we actually need to feel bored in order to jump-start our creativity.

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