Health & Safety

Early in life, Sam (left) and John were much more similar than they may seem today. "They both did not wave, they didn't respond to their name, they both had a lot of repetitive movements," says their mother, Kim Leaird.

These identical twins both grew up with autism, but took very different paths

1:35pm April 04, 2024

by Jon Hamilton

Sam and John Fetters are identical twins with autism. But Sam is in college, while John still struggles to form sentences. Their experience may shed light on the disorder's mix of nature and nurture.

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Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing its largest outbreak of mpox

11:03am April 04, 2024

by Gabrielle Emanuel

An outbreak of mpox — formerly known as monkeypox — in the Democratic Republic of Congo has health experts concerned as the majority of deaths have been children.

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Tennessee case: How narrow can a medical exception be in a state's abortion ban?

10:23am April 04, 2024

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

Women who say they've been harmed by Tennessee's abortion bans will be in court on Thursday. Plaintiff Nicole Blackmon says she endangered her life carrying a fetus that had no chance to live.

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Cows lay down a freestall barn after getting milked on the Ted and Megan McAllister dairy farm.

How does avian flu affect your breakfast; NATO solemnly celebrates 75th anniversary

7:51am April 04, 2024

by Mansee Khurana

Cases of bird flu have been found in dairy cattle, but the risk to humans remains low. Ukraine is front and center today as NATO celebrates its 75th anniversary.

An outbreak of bird flu is affecting dairy cows in the U.S.

What to know about the risks of the bird flu outbreak

5:18am April 04, 2024

by Will Stone

Cattle are getting sick with H5N1, and one person got sick in Texas. How bad could this be for dairy farms? Could it spread among people? Here's what scientists are learning.

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The FDA has approved the first app to help treat depression

5:13am April 04, 2024

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Dr. John Torous, director of digital psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, about the first app being approved to help treat depression.

California legislators in 2019 passed the law that requires all the state's 33 public university campuses to provide abortion pills. It took effect in January 2023, but LAist found that basic information for students to obtain the medication is often nonexistent.

California colleges provide abortion pills but many fail to make students aware

5:01am April 04, 2024

Despite a law mandating that they offer the pills, many campus health clinics don't publicize that they have them, leaving students struggling to track them down off-campus.

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Cases of eggs from Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., await to be handed out by the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce employees at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in Jackson, Miss., on Aug. 7, 2020.

A bird flu outbreak at the largest U.S. chicken egg producer could affect egg prices

5:51pm April 03, 2024

by Ayana Archie

Cal-Maine Foods lost about 1.9 million chickens, or 3.6% of its flock, as a result of an outbreak at a Texas plant. The CDC says, however, that a person is unlikely to get bird flu from eggs.

What life has been like for thousands of pregnant women in Gaza

5:12pm April 03, 2024

by Elissa Nadworny

More than 5,000 women are expected to give birth in the next month in Gaza. One clinic is offering free ultrasounds, and for many, it's the first in their pregnancy.

After childhood trauma, sisters use art and science to explore how memory can morph

4:53pm April 03, 2024

by Gabriel Spitzer

Two sisters struggled to remember troubling childhood events until adulthood. A neuroscientist and author gave them the science and the language to turn their work into a dance performance and a book.

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