Health & Safety

In the preparation kitchen, Marilyn Rush dispenses black beans into cups ready to be packed and sent out for retail.

Trader Joe's Ex-President Opens Store With Aging Food And Cheap Meals

3:04pm June 09, 2015

by Curt Nickisch

Would you buy groceries with a shorter shelf life if they were sold at a steep discount? Doug Rauch will test the idea at a new grocery store stocked with food donated by wholesalers and markets.

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To Beat Insomnia, Try Therapy For The Underlying Cause Instead Of Pills

2:47pm June 09, 2015

by Maanvi Singh

A review of the medical evidence finds that therapy can break the cycle of chronic sleeplessness by addressing the anxieties that cause many people to stay awake.

South Korea Scrambles To Contain MERS Virus

2:14pm June 09, 2015

by Elise Hu

Middle East respiratory syndrome has killed seven people and infected nearly 100 others in South Korea. The World Health Organization is out with new findings about the science behind this outbreak.

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Patient one: A businessman brought the Middle East respiratory syndrome to South Korea in early May. Since then, he has likely spread the virus to more than 20 other people. Several of those have passed the virus onto others.

Viral Superspreader? How One Man Triggered A Deadly MERS Outbreak

10:02pm June 08, 2015

by Michaeleen Doucleff

In the past week, cases of the Middle East respiratory syndrome have more than tripled in South Korea. Researchers now have a clue to why the outbreak has grown so large, so quickly.

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The staff at the Charlotte Community Health Clinic: Nancy Hudson (left), Maria Elena Solanilla, Tonya Luna, Lisa Ortiz-Fraticelli, Charm May Agustin, Martha Brinsko and Tamara Withers-Thompson.

More Patients, Not Fewer, Turn To Health Clinics After Obamacare

7:46pm June 08, 2015

by Michael Tomsic

Patients are flocking to community health clinics for care. Obamacare advertising brought a lot of people out of the woodwork who wanted health insurance but didn't qualify for it.

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People protesting against the Affordable Care Act rallied outside the Supreme Court in March, before arguments in the second major challenge to the law.

5 Questions Answered On The Legal Challenge To Obamacare Subsidies

3:09pm June 08, 2015

by Julie Rovner

If the court rules against the Obama administration, health insurance subsidies could be eliminated for more than 6 million people in states that use HealthCare.gov, the federal exchange website.

Physician-Assisted Death Legislation Moves Forward In California

6:21pm June 07, 2015

California's Senate approved the End of Life Option Act, a bill that would allow doctor-assisted suicide for some terminally ill patients. The bill had been stalled for years, in part because doctors opposed it. But last month the California Medical Association dropped its opposition, becoming the first state medical association to do so. NPR's Arun Rath talks to Dr. Theodore Mazer, a member of the association's executive board, about the decision.

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When Cambodia's government closed the brothels, sex workers in Phnom Penh scattered to bars and entertainment venues.

The Hidden World Of Cambodia's Sex Workers: New Risks, New Hope

2:20pm June 07, 2015

by Steve Sapienza

The government closed brothels to clamp down on human trafficking. But that move put the country's prostitutes in grave danger.

The experimental drug flibanserin, made by Sprout Pharmaceuticals, is at the center of a regulatory controversy.

Health & Safety

Advisers To FDA Recommend Agency Approve Drug To Boost Female Libido

4:13pm June 05, 2015

by Rob Stein

Proponents claim the Food and Drug Administration is applying a double standard to its review of a drug some call the female Viagra. Critics say flibanserin hasn't been proved safe or effective.

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Pills are made from dehydrated placenta.

Placenta Pills Gain Fans Among New Moms, But Benefits Are Elusive

4:13pm June 05, 2015

by Tara Haelle

If Kourtney Kardashian and Mayim Bialik do it, is it good for you? Pills made from a woman's placenta are being promoted for postpartum depression. But there's no evidence they help, a review finds.