Health & Safety

Back From Greenland, The Country With World's Highest Suicide Rate

8:47am April 24, 2016

Reporter Rebecca Hersher spent 10 weeks in Greenland this winter trying to understand why the country has the highest known suicide rate. She tells Rachel Martin it's not because of the dark and cold.

Greenland native Nina-Vivi Andersen visits the old town of Kangeq, off the coast of Greenland's capital Nuuk. She has her own perspective on the word Eskimo: "I don't mind to be called Eskimo — it is neutral for me. But when I saw an ice cream store in

Why You Probably Shouldn't Say 'Eskimo'

6:42am April 24, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

There's a new theory about what the term means. But that doesn't change its controversial past.

Neetu trains nearly 8 hours a day at a wrestling facility in Rohtak, India. Her coach says, "She doesn't take a break for even one minute."

A Child Bride At 13, She's Turned Herself Into A Prize-Winning Wrestler

9:38am April 23, 2016

by Julie McCarthy

On the wrestling mat, this young woman from an unassuming Indian village fights back against patriarchy and prejudice.

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Steve and Janet Singleton, both Navy veterans, have lived in Clarksville, Tenn., for about a year. Steve couldn't get into the local VA clinic last spring, so now they have to drive to the Nashville clinic or pay out of pocket for medical care.

Overcrowding Forces Tennessee VA Clinic To Stop Accepting New Patients

7:49pm April 22, 2016

by Emily Siner

The growing veterans population in places like Clarksville, Tenn., is straining resources at VA clinics and making it difficult for vets to get nearby medical care.

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Key Haven, a Florida neighborhood about a mile east of Key West, is where a test of Oxitec's genetically engineered mosquitoes might take place later this year. Some neighbors have strongly dissented — at public meetings and via yard signs.

Florida Keys Weigh Options For Battling Mosquitoes And Zika

6:34pm April 22, 2016

by Nancy Klingener

Residents of these islands have waged many campaigns against disease-carrying mosquitoes. But there's still not much agreement at public meetings about how the mosquitoes should be controlled.

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Phan Sopheak, a rice farmer in Cambodia, rests shortly after a man wielding an axe attacked her. She had been patrolling the Prey Lang forest around her village with a volunteer group that is trying to stop illegal logging.

#EarthDay: The High Cost Of Eco-Activism

5:10pm April 22, 2016

by Nurith Aizenman

Why the world's poorest people are some of the most effective — and vulnerable — environmental activists.

Why Is This Passover Different From Past Passovers?

4:55pm April 22, 2016

by Diane Cole

That's not one of the four questions asked at the Seder, but it's a good question — and there's a timely answer.

After Suicides, Greenland Town Mobilizes To Prevent More Deaths

4:33pm April 22, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

In January, two young men killed themselves in one Greenland town. The country has the world's highest known suicide rate, and people worried these suicides would become a cluster. So they mobilized to prevent more deaths.

Earlier this week, NIH temporarily halted work in the cell therapy lab of Dr. Steven Rosenberg, chief of surgery at the National Cancer Institute, pending a review of safety standards there.

Task Force Calls For More Safety Oversight At NIH Research Hospital

2:10pm April 22, 2016

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

NIH Director Francis Collins has stopped research at two leading labs for now. But an independent board of experts wants even more oversight to ensure that patient safety is the top priority.

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McDonald's is super popular in Israel — the chain even offers potato-starch hamburger buns, like this one, that are kosher for Passover. But now McD's is fighting back against the Israeli health ministry's accusations that it's "junk food."

Israel's Health Minister To McDonald's: 'Not In Our Country'

1:48pm April 22, 2016

by Daniel Estrin

McDonald's is super popular in Israel — the chain even offers potato-starch buns for Passover. But now McD's is fighting back against government accusations that it's "junk food."