Health & Safety

Health & Safety

Should gun violence be framed as an illness — using terms like epidemic?

5:08am June 22, 2023

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Daniel Webster of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions about what the word "epidemic" means when it comes to gun violence.

Cultivated Meat is an alternative to traditional meat derived from cells in a lab. In this photo, a chicken breast is prepared at Upside Foods.

'No kill' meat, grown from animal cells, is now approved for sale in the U.S.

6:07pm June 21, 2023

by Allison Aubrey

Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.

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Abortion access in the U.S., 2013 vs. 2023: The number of Americans who live more than 200 miles from a clinic or hospital that provides abortion dramatically grew in the past decade.

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How many miles do you have to travel to get abortion care? One professor maps it

5:26pm June 21, 2023

An economics professor at Middlebury College and her undergrad research assistants have been tracking access to abortion care since 2009. These maps show the dramatic changes in the past decade.

Soon after Roe was overturned, one Mississippi woman learned she was pregnant

4:38pm June 21, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Bryce Covert about her report on one of the first babies born in a post-Dobbs America and the circumstances his mother is faced with.

Federal judge blocks the country's first ban on gender-affirming care for minors

4:38pm June 21, 2023

by Daniel Breen

A federal judge has permanently struck down the country's first law banning gender-affirming care for minors, signaling a victory for LGBTQ advocates.

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Francisca Sosa sits by her father, one of the many Peruvians who've contracted dengue fever in this unprecedented outbreak.

Peru is reeling from record case counts of dengue fever. What's driving the outbreak?

4:31pm June 21, 2023

by Simeon Tegel

The number of patients is soaring, the health system is stressed and the government is facing criticism over its response. So far 150,000 Peruvians have caught the virus this year and 248 have died.

Families who were suddenly dropped from Medicaid seek reinstatement

7:42am June 21, 2023

by Verónica Zaragovia

After pandemic-era protections expired in March, more than a million Americans were dropped from Medicaid. More than 205,000 of the disenrolled are in Florida and still qualify — many are children.

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Adults should be screened for anxiety disorders, leading health panel recommends

5:14am June 21, 2023

The influential panel — the U.S Preventive Services Task Force — now recommends that all adults under age 65 be screened for anxiety at annual exams.

On Tuesday, June 20, 2023, a federal judge blocked Arkansas' ban on gender-affirming care for minors. In this photo, opponents of a religious freedom bill gather at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, April 2, 2015.

First in the nation gender-affirming care ban struck down in Arkansas

9:58pm June 20, 2023

by Daniel Breen

A federal judge has struck down Arkansas' 2021 ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth calling it unconstitutional and saying the state's experts were motivated by ideology, not science.

Adults should be screened for anxiety disorders, health panel recommends

4:52pm June 20, 2023

by Michaeleen Doucleff

An influential health panel now recommends all adults under age 65 be screened for anxiety disorders by their primary care physicians.