Health & Safety

People all over the world pay bribes because they think the benefit — better health care, education for their kids — is worth the cost.

Psst, We'll Pay You A Bribe If You Read This Story

3:47pm March 03, 2015

by Roff Smith

An estimated 1.6 billion people — many of them in the developing world — pay bribes for public services, according to a new book. The alternative may be no health care and no education.

Life After Death

11:05am March 03, 2015

The world is starting to forget about Ebola. The village of Barkedu can't.

How much flexibility does the Department of Health and Human Services have to move funding around within its budget?

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GOP Faults Shift Of Funds To HealthCare.Gov From NIH And CDC

9:55am March 03, 2015

by Phil Galewitz

House Republicans are asking why the Obama administration moved money to run the federal insurance marketplace in 37 states, after House Democrats didn't appropriate enough funding.

Student volunteers with The Campus Kitchens Project evaluate produce. The initiative gets high-school and college students to scavenge food from cafeterias, grocery stores and farmers' markets, cook it and deliver it to organizations serving low-income pe

When Food Is Too Good To Waste, College Kids Pick Up The Scraps

9:50am March 03, 2015

by Linda Poon

Millions of tons of food are wasted on college campuses around the country, and students are noticing. Some of them are now rescuing food to make tasty meals for the needy and compost for gardens.

People With Low Incomes Say They Pay A Price In Poor Health

7:39am March 03, 2015

by Patti Neighmond

People with household incomes of less than $25,000 a year say in a new poll that the lack of cash really hurts their health. Low-quality food and dangerous housing are two reasons why.

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Poll Explores Our Perception Of How Factors Large And Small Shape People's Health

7:38am March 03, 2015

by Joe Neel

Health is not just about trips to the doctor, according to a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Housing, stress and abuse are factors.

About 1 in 3 patients with dementia who live in nursing homes are being sedated with antipsychotic drugs, the GAO says. Outside nursing homes, about 1 in 7 dementia patients are getting the risky drugs.

GAO Report Urges Fewer Antipsychotic Drugs For Dementia Patients

1:16am March 03, 2015

by Ina Jaffe

Strong drugs are rarely warranted to control the behavior of dementia patients, specialists say. But antipsychotic medicine is being overprescribed, and not just among residents of nursing homes.

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Mina, a 22-year-old mother in Jamkani, Chhattisgarh, says sending her child to the Fulwari gives her more time to farm and collect forest wood.

How 'Flower Beds' Give Love And Lentils To Moms And Babies

8:09pm March 02, 2015

by Ankita Rao

When mothers need day care for their children, the best person to turn to might be another mother. That's the lesson of the new cooperative nurseries in an Indian state.

Health & Safety

NAACP Leader Decries McCrory's Medicaid Delay

7:32pm March 02, 2015

by Michael Burke

The head of North Carolina's NAACP disagrees with Gov. Pat McCrory's plan to wait until summer to determine whether to expand Medicaid. The Rev.

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Government guidelines say exercising 2.5 hours a week will keep you healthy, but a study says you can get the job done in less time if you rev it up.

Walk A Little Faster To Get The Most Out of Your Exercise Time

5:50pm March 02, 2015

by Katherine Hobson

People who walked briskly for 40 minutes five days a week saw more health improvements than those who walked for an hour a day but were more leisurely about it. Both groups lost weight.