Hoop Dreams: Wheelchair Basketball Is Changing Lives In Afghanistan
The head of the Red Cross orthopedic program wasn't sure a basketball team was a good idea. The players proved him wrong.
Mental Health
Alabama Prisons Ruled 'Horrendously Inadequate,' Must Improve
A U.S. District judge issued the ruling Tuesday in a class action lawsuit brought by inmates who argued the prisons' conditions were cruel and unusual punishment.
CHART: CBO Weighs Who Wins, Who Loses With Senate Health Care Bill
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 22 million people would lose coverage with the Senate bill. That includes 15 million people on Medicaid, and others who could no longer afford insurance.
From Birth To Death, Medicaid Affects The Lives Of Millions
Medicaid has become a prime target of Republicans in Congress who want to rein in the program's costs, which totaled $350 billion in 2015. We take a look at what all that money pays for.
More Than Memory: Coping With The Other Ills Of Alzheimer's
Many people with Alzheimer's suffer medical and mental health issues that have nothing to do with memory loss, including slow healing, incontinence, paranoia and depression.
NFL's Jermichael Finley On Head Trauma: 'It Felt Like 100 Bees Stinging Me'
NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with former NFL tight end Jermichael Finley about his experience living with the effects of head trauma sustained on the field.
Forget Freud: Dreams Replay Our Everyday Lives
Sigmund Freud thought dreams were all about wish fulfillment and repressed desire. But scientists now think they're linked to memory processing and consciousness. And they're often quite mundane.
Humanitarian Aid Is 'Broken,' Says Former U.N. Official
The way we offer assistance to people fleeing conflict no longer works, says Paul Spiegel, a former director of program management at the U.N. refugee agency. He has a few ideas about how to fix it.
'Combat Medicine:' Afghanistan Vet Seeks To Help Others Through Hip-Hop
A new hip-hop album by a veteran of the war in Afghanistan drops Wednesday. His target audience: fellow vets suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
A Couple's Quest To Stop A Rare Disease Before It Takes One Of Them
Twenty years. That's how long two grad students, Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel, think they have before a deadly disease envelops Sonia's brain. The Massachusetts couple is now racing to find a cure.