Health & Safety

Health & Safety

Houston Nurse Prepares For Rush Of Patients From Third U.S. Coronavirus Surge

7:53am November 01, 2020

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with nurse Avery Taylor, of Houston Methodist Hospital's Highly Infectious Disease Unit, about preparing for another surge of COVID-19 patients months after the last.

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Coronavirus Adds To Voting Challenges For Native American Community

7:53am November 01, 2020

by Savannah Maher

People who live on America's 326 Indian reservations often have a harder time voting due to bad roads and lack of formal addresses. The pandemic is adding challenges.

Public health officials urge people to wash their hands more often during the pandemic. That can be a problem for people with Obsessive-compulsive disorder, who are trying to reduce such habits.

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Pandemic Raises Special Concerns For Those With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

7:00am November 01, 2020

by Eilis O'Neill

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder are experiencing unique challenges during the coronavirus pandemic. But they can also offer valuable insights into coping with pandemic-induced anxiety.

Why The U.S. Has A Problem With Hospital Capacity

6:05pm October 31, 2020

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Nancy Foster, of the American Hospital Association, about the strain the coronavirus pandemic is putting on U.S. hospitals — and why so many struggle with capacity.

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Missouri Hospital CEO On Understaffed Rural Hospitals Overstressed By Pandemic

5:39pm October 31, 2020

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Randy Tobler, CEO of Scotland County Hospital in Memphis, Mo., about the impact the coronavirus surge is having on his facility and staff.

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Researchers have observed that the friendliest male bonobos, like this male resident of Lola Ya Bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tend to be the most successful. Early humans may have had the same experience with their peers.

How Humans Domesticated Themselves

4:14pm October 31, 2020

by Bret Stetka

Duke anthropologist Brian Hare argues that humans evolved in a way that left us more cooperative and friendlier than our now extinct human cousins, like Neanderthals and Denisovans.

State representatives stand during the Pledge of Allegiance in the Iowa House chambers in Des Moines, Iowa, in June.

Are You Watching Your State Lawmaker Elections? Here's Why You Should

2:46pm October 31, 2020

Millions of dollars are flowing into state legislative races. Redistricting and the coronavirus are expected to be top of the policy agenda in 2021 and party control could mean everything.

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Dr. Warren Hern's clinic in Boulder, Colo., photographed on Monday, June 1, 2009. Hern said a ballot initiative to ban abortion after 22 weeks in Colorado would prohibit about 95% of the procedures performed at the clinic.

Colorado Abortion Ban Could Be Felt Nationwide

10:04am October 31, 2020

by Sarah McCammon

Colorado's Proposition 115 could shut down one of the few clinics nationwide that specializes in later abortion.

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U.S. Coronavirus Cases Surpass 9 Million

7:47am October 31, 2020

by Will Stone

A new, dire record: the U.S. has topped 9 million coronavirus infections. Hospitals are overwhelmed in some areas of the country, while others are preparing for a new influx of COVID-19 patients.

Rising Coronavirus Cases In Iowa Could Threaten Voter Turnout

7:47am October 31, 2020

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Roxanna Moritz, Elections Commissioner for Scott County, Iowa, about in-person voting in a state where coronavirus infection numbers are rising.