Health & Safety

Health & Safety

What Women Should Keep In Mind When They're Thinking Of Breast-Feeding

8:41am June 26, 2017

by Michaeleen Doucleff

A majority of women say they want to breast-feed their babies. But only a small fraction reach that goal. Why is it so hard? Maybe the secrets of breast-feeding are in the past.

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Where Does The Federal Budget Deficit Fit Into The Health Care Equation?

6:42pm June 25, 2017

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas about how to balance the need for health care with the need to reduce the federal budget deficit.

Insurance Companies Concerned About The Future Of Medicaid Under GOP Plan

8:06am June 25, 2017

The Senate's healthcare bill would make big changes to the government's Medicaid program. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with John Baackes, CEO of L.A. Care Health Plan.

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Kailash Satyarthi receives flowers from school children in Bangalore.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner's Message To America: 'All Children Are Our Children'

7:00am June 25, 2017

by Malaka Gharib

Kaiilash Satyarthi came to Washington to encourage the U.S. government to fight for the freedom of child laborers.

Federal Medicaid Funding Cuts Under Senate Health Care Bill Puts Pressure On States

6:03pm June 24, 2017

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Julie Rovner, Chief Washington Correspondent at Kaiser Health News, about the Senate GOP health bill and what it could mean for programs funded by Medicaid.

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What Medicaid Cuts Could Mean For The Opioid Epidemic

6:03pm June 24, 2017

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Lynn Cooper, director of the Drug and Alcohol Division at Pennsylvania's Rehabilitation and Community Providers Association, about the Senate GOP healthcare bill.

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Dr. Vanessa Grubbs and Robert Phillips at their wedding in August 2005. Just a few months earlier, when his kidneys were failing, she gave him one of hers.

'Interlaced Fingers' Traces Roots Of Racial Disparity In Kidney Transplants

6:03pm June 24, 2017

by Michel Martin

When Dr. Vanessa Grubbs fell in love with a man whose kidneys were failing, he'd been waiting for a transplant for years. Her book explores the ways racial inequity is embedded in the system.

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Some lawmakers are raising concerns that the Senate health care bill could aggravate the problem of healthy people going without insurance, driving up costs for everyone else.

How The Senate Health Care Bill Could Disrupt The Insurance Market

12:10pm June 24, 2017

by Scott Horsley

In their Affordable Care Act repeal bill, Senate Republicans dropped the requirement that all Americans get health insurance. But they also kept the mandate that insurance companies cover everyone.

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What's In The GOP Health Care Bill

8:01am June 24, 2017

Melissa Block talks with health policy reporter Noam Levey of the Los Angeles Times about the health care bill Senate Republicans released this week, and what it means for Americans' access to care.

Health Insurers Anxious Over Uncertainty Of What Comes Next

8:01am June 24, 2017

by Alex Smith

Proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act mean an uncertain future for insurance companies on the exchange. While some areas are struggling, others are seeing insurers come into their markets.