Health & Safety

A mother is called to work as a doula after her first child died shortly after birth

5:17am May 10, 2024

Marilí Rodríguez García spent several years working as a doula in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She was called to the profession after losing her first child, Adrián José, a few days after his birth in 2009.

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Medical debt is as much a hallmark of having children as long nights and dirty diapers. The Crivilare family, Andrew, Heather and Rita, 2, are pictured at their kitchen table in Jacksonville, Ill.

Their first baby came with medical debt. These Illinois parents won't have another.

7:18pm May 09, 2024

by Noam Levey

Millions of new parents in the U.S. are swamped by medical debt during and after pregnancy, forcing many to cut back on food, clothing, and other essentials.

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The Match Day ceremony at the University of California, Irvine, on March 15. Match Day is the day when medical students seeking residency and fellowship training positions find out their options. Increasingly, medical students are choosing to go to states that don't restrict abortion.

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Medical residents are starting to avoid states with abortion bans, data shows

5:19pm May 09, 2024

A new analysis shows that students graduating from U.S. medical schools this year were less likely to apply for residencies across specialties in states with restrictions on abortion.

The efforts to keep Black children from going into foster care in Minnesota

5:18pm May 09, 2024

by Dana Ferguson

This year in Minnesota, lawmakers are trying to bring down the rate of Black children who are removed from their families and placed into foster care. The numbers haven't budged in nearly 30 years.

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Researchers reveal nearly every detail of a sand grain-sized bit of brain

4:55pm May 09, 2024

by Jon Hamilton

Scientists have imaged a tiny fragment of brain in unprecedented detail, showing detailed connections between individual neurons. The method could help researchers better understand brain circuits.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , who is running as a third party candidate for president, made news this week for his deposition from 2012 that "a worm ... got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died."

RFK Jr. is not alone. More than a billion people have parasitic worms

3:35pm May 09, 2024

by Gabrielle Emanuel

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about a time when, as he put it, "A worm ... got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died." Here's a global perspective on these worms.

One in seven women experiences depression during or after pregnancy. The good news is that perinatal depression is treatable. Here are five things to know about perinatal depression, its symptoms and treatment options.

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For Mother's Day, a bouquet of useful health advice for new moms and moms-to-be

10:52am May 09, 2024

by Life Kit

Expert guidance on the realities of pregnancy and new motherhood from Life Kit. Find episodes on the menstrual cycle, egg freezing, postpartum depression and more.

A drug company will stop selling lucrative medicine to keep a promise to ALS patients

5:49pm May 08, 2024

by Jon Hamilton

A drug company will voluntarily stop selling a medicine that was bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars, keeping a promise the business made years earlier to people with the fatal condition ALS.