Health & Safety

The Barbershop View: School Law Enforcement, Black Lives Matter And Hillary Clinton

7:43pm October 31, 2015

Jolene Ivey, Farajii Muhammad, and Ordale Allen discuss the video of the South Carolina student being disciplined by a deputy, Black Lives Matter interrupting a Clinton rally and more.

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Obamacare Deploys New Apps, Allies To Persuade The Uninsured

6:46pm October 30, 2015

by Alison Kodjak

Open enrollment for Obamacare opens Sunday. Millions of people still lack health insurance, including some who signed up last year but later dropped their health coverage, calling it "unaffordable."

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(Left to right) NYU medical students Brian Chao, Michael Lui, Hye Min Choi, and Varun Vijay take the team approach to learning about the anatomy of cells, and how disease can disrupt them. Analyzing big data sets is now a routine part of their studies, to

Medical Students Crunch Big Data To Spot Health Trends

6:13pm October 30, 2015

by Julie Rovner

It's not enough anymore to learn how to size up the symptoms of a particular patient, say specialists in bioinformatics. Modern doctors need to learn to see patterns in huge data sets, too.

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Jane Goodall grooms the coat of a chimpanzee as he eats a banana in this photo from 1974.

Jane Goodall Wants To Save Us (And Her Beloved Chimps) From Ourselves

5:48pm October 30, 2015

by Malaka Gharib

She's learned a lot about chimpanzees. But what has she learned from them has given her a new mission: improve the health of the planet.

Anchorage dental hygienist Victoria Cronquist pays $1,600 a month for a health insurance policy that covers four people in her family. Next year, she says, the rate is set to jump to $2,600 a month.

Steep Hikes In Insurance Rates Force Alaskans To Make Tough Choices

5:37pm October 30, 2015

by Annie Feidt

Alaskans have the highest rates for health insurance in the country. Many get a subsidy to help defray the cost, but those who don't wonder, increasingly, whether it's time to go without insurance.

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You probably wouldn't want to eat these Jack O'Lanterns since they've been carved and sitting out. But this variety of pumpkin is perfectly edible and nutritious.

Do We Waste A Lot Of Pumpkins We Could Be Eating?

5:09pm October 30, 2015

by Alastair Bland

Halloween pumpkins are nutritious and perfectly edible — if they haven't been carved and left outside for days. And yet we throw almost all of them away. Here's what happened when we cooked with one.

A mosquito bed net keeps the bugs out. The photo was taken in Pailin province, Cambodia.

Researchers Plot The Death Of P. Falciparum: The Malaria Parasite

2:21pm October 30, 2015

by Jason Beaubien

Current drugs aren't working as well. Old drugs may be making a comeback. And a poet sums up the reason that malaria fighters met this week.

This digitally colorized image shows the yellow-colored Yersinia pestis bacteria, the pathogen that causes bubonic plague, on part of a flea's digestive system.

Oregon Teen Has Bubonic Plague, State Officials Say

2:13pm October 30, 2015

by Bill Chappell

There's no widely available vaccine to prevent plague, an infectious bacterial disease that's carried by squirrels and other rodents.

Goose bumps are triggered as part of the body's fight or flight response.

The Hair-Raising Science Of Goose Bumps

2:06pm October 30, 2015

by Adam Cole

Skunk Bear's shivery new video explores how and why our skin acts so weird when we watch a scary movie, get cold or listen to music.

Michael Pearson, chairman and chief executive officer of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, speaks during the company's annual general meeting in May.

Health & Safety

Valeant Says It Will Cut Ties To Specialty Pharmacy Amid Fraud Allegations

11:00am October 30, 2015

by Jim Zarroli

The company's relationship with Philidor has been under scrutiny after questions were raised about whether it was using the specialty pharmacy to boost sales of Valeant drugs over cheaper versions.