Health
Evacuated During Labor: Mom Leaves Smoke-Filled Hospital As Baby Is On His Way
With contractions four and five minutes apart, Nicole Veum started to see and smell smoke at a Santa Rosa, Calif., hospital.
Could Making Cancer Screening Simpler Increase Women's Risk?
An influential task force says that either a Pap test or an HPV test is enough to screen for cervical cancer. But key medical groups say that strategy could miss cancers, especially in minority women.
Why A Long-Term-Disability Policy Is More Important Than Pet Insurance
Though not as trendy as pet insurance, a long-term-disability policy is pretty cheap and can save your bacon if you have an accident, get cancer or otherwise can't work for a few months or years.
It Was A Year Of Pain ... And Promise ... For The World's Girls
A sampling of our stories about the world's girls: A 15-year-old died in a menstrual shed. A former child bride went back to school. Afghan women say no to a restrictive school uniform.
California Governor Signs Law To Make Drug Pricing More Transparent
This is the first step in a long game to develop clearer prescription drug pricing laws around the country, health policy experts say.
Trump Says He'll Sign Order To Expand Health Insurance Options
Conservatives have long advocated for using association health plans to boost competition. But the result could be that healthy people pay less and sicker people are priced out of coverage.
Why Periods Are Political: The Fight For Menstrual Equity
On any given day, more than 800 million girls and women around the world are menstruating. And for many of them, in the U.S. and elsewhere, it's a problem — sometimes with life-or-death consequences.
Nature, Nurture, And Our Evolving Debates About Gender
What does it mean to be a boy and what does it mean to be a girl? We delve into debates over gender – and explore how some people are moving beyond labels and building gender identities of their own.
Young Doctors Were Put To The Test After Vegas Mass Shooting
Surgical fellows at the only Level 1 trauma center in Las Vegas got their medical board certification just three days before the mass shooting, and tested all their training that night.