North Carolina readies for launch of Medicaid tailored plans July 1
North Carolina has initiated a bilingual awareness campaign in advance of this summer’s launch of tailored plans for eligible Medicaid beneficiaries.
Health & Safety
An elementary school in Kansas is combating bad behavior — by putting kids to work
A pilot program in elementary schools gives kids meaningful work as a way to handle post-pandemic behavior problems.
After 40 years of smoking, she survived lung cancer thanks to new treatments
Scientific advances in immunotherapy and new targeted therapies have increased survival rates. But screening among former and current smokers still needs to improve to save more lives.
Arizona attorney general says she won't enforce a 164-year-old abortion law
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat who has vowed to not enforce a sweeping abortion ban upheld by the state's supreme court.
A mother and son remember a frightening accident and the resulting kindness
Karina Borgia-Lacroix was in a StoryCorps booth in Fort Myers, Fla., last month with her 10-year-old son, Levi, when he asked her, "What is your favorite memory of me?"
More states are finding bird flu in cattle. This is what scientists are watching for
Avian influenza is being detected in more dairy herds. Scientists are paying close attention to how the virus is changing and what that means for its pandemic potential.
Here are 3 solutions to get blood to folks in 'blood deserts.' One is often illegal
Doctors have coined a term to describe places where blood for transfusions is not readily available: "blood deserts." When blood banks aren't around, they try different strategies to help patients.
The many roadblocks that keep women from getting mammograms
CDC research finds that in addition to cost and access, other factors of daily life keep many women from getting screened for breast cancer. (Story aired on All Things Considered on 4/9/24.)
How Florida and Arizona Supreme Court rulings change the abortion access map
How far do women have to travel to access abortion care? An economics professor has been tracking that data since 2009. Interactive maps show how access has changed dramatically since 2021.
Why the growing push for programs to help keep seniors in their homes longer
As the senior population in the U.S. grows, so do efforts to help older Americans stay at home — and out of hospitals and nursing homes.