Health & Safety

A teen's relieved parents finally saw hopeful signs when she got residential treatment. But the family's insurance stopped paying after about two months.

Teen with life-threatening depression finally found hope. Then insurance cut her off

7:53am April 17, 2023

by Rhitu Chatterjee

Despite laws that say mental health care should be paid for on a par with other medical care, health insurance stopped covering the care a suicidal teen needed before she was stable.

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Jamil Zaki and his daughter Alma in 2021.

Jamil was struggling after his daughter had a stroke. Then a doctor pulled up a chair

5:00am April 17, 2023

by Laura Kwerel

In 2015, Dr. Mark Petersen shared difficult news about the treatment plan for Jamil Zaki's fragile newborn daughter. But instead of delivering the news and getting back to work, he pulled up a chair.

An exam room is seen inside Planned Parenthood Friday, March 10, 2023, in Fairview Heights, Ill.

Out-of-staters are flocking to places where abortions are easier to get

5:41pm April 16, 2023

by Mallika Seshadri

States with strong abortion rights protections are seeing many more abortion seekers, mostly from neighboring states with abortion restrictions.

A young fan came to the Mumbai home of rapper Saniya Mistri Qayammuddin – aka Saniya MQ — to pay her respects and pose for a selfie.

The improbable fame of a hijab-wearing teen rapper from a poor neighborhood in Mumbai

11:41am April 16, 2023

by Raksha Kumar

First Saniya wrote poems. Then she began rapping. Now she appears on TV and YouTube and before big crowds, spreading her message about justice. Her father the rickshaw driver is her chauffeur.

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The Supreme Court stepped in to issue a temporary stay in the Texas mifepristone case

7:59am April 15, 2023

The Supreme Court has stepped into the legal fight over the abortion medication mifepristone, pausing restrictions mandated by a lower court.

Juliet, 15, lives in Georgia, a state that bans abortions after six weeks. There is an exception for rape, but only with a police report. Juliet became so fearful of getting pregnant from rape, she told her mom she wanted to go on birth control. "I just wanted to be a little in control," she says.

Health & Safety

Fear of pregnancy: One teen's story in post-Roe America

6:00am April 15, 2023

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

In a state that bans abortion, anxiety about rape and getting pregnant drove this teen to start on birth control, though she's not having sex.

Supreme Court issues a temporary stay in the Texas mifepristone case

5:10pm April 14, 2023

by Nina Totenberg

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued an administrative stay in a Texas case involving limited access to the abortion drug mifepristone.

Health & Safety

As some move on from the pandemic, people with long COVID feel frustrated and alone

5:10pm April 14, 2023

by Jackie Fortier

There's deep frustration growing among people with long COVID at the lack of progress in treating the condition.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees workers prepare to distribute non-food items to women at UNHCR office in Kandahar on March 8, 2022. The Taliban has demanded that Afghan women no longer work for the UN or NGOs.

Health & Safety

The Taliban again bans Afghan women aid workers. Here's how the U.N. responded

3:27pm April 14, 2023

by Ruchi Kumar

The Taliban has banned Afghan women working for the U.N. or other aid agencies. The repercussions could be devastating for programs in which women play a vital role.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announces the Justice Department charged several leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, a transnational drug trafficking organization based in Sinaloa, Mexico, and several of its facilitators across the world.

U.S. charges El Chapo's sons and other Sinaloa cartel members in fentanyl trafficking

3:17pm April 14, 2023

by Jaclyn Diaz

Members of the Mexican cartel are facing several charges involving fentanyl trafficking, weapons and money laundering in New York, Illinois and Washington, D.C.