PHOTOS: After The Storm, Haitians In The Bahamas Depend On The Kindness Of Strangers
One woman turned her home into an ad hoc shelter for Haitians displaced by the storm and facing discrimination.
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Heads Up: A Ruling On The Latest Challenge To The Affordable Care Act Is Coming
The health law again faces possible legal evisceration with a court ruling in Texas v. Azar anticipated this fall. Here's what it's about and what's stake.
Canada's Decision To Make Public More Clinical Trial Data Puts Pressure On FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration treats most data it gets on the development of new drugs and medical devices as confidential to companies. Critics say making the data public would help patients.
India Banned E-Cigarettes — But Beedis And Chewing Tobacco Remain Widespread
India is the world's top consumer of smokeless tobacco — and has the world's highest number of oral cavity cancers.
Some Parts Of Trump's Executive Order On Medicare Could Lead To Higher Costs
Reviving ideas that were argued over in the 1990s, Trump's new order on Medicare could have some unintended consequences, depending how it's implemented.
Lawmakers Seek Protections For Workers Against Lung Damage Tied To Making Countertops
In a letter, they urge the Labor Department to ensure safe levels of silica dust at workplaces that cut popular "engineered stone." At least 18 workers have recently suffered severe lung damage.
Phone Scammers And 'Teledoctors' Charged With Preying On Seniors In Fraud Case
Officials warn that schemes devised to steal from Medicare have embraced telemedicine. One man was prescribed $4,000 of medical equipment he didn't need and never asked for.
How Immigrants Use Health Care
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Anne Dunkelberg of the Center for Public Policy Priorities about the new rule denying visas to immigrants without health insurance or funds to pay for health care.
Illinois Lawmaker Discusses New Planned Parenthood Facility
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Illinois State Rep. Katie Stuart about a secret Planned Parenthood built in her district that will expand reproductive health services in the area.
Targeting 'Medicare For All' Proposals, Trump Lays Out His Vision For Medicare
Speaking from a retirement community in Florida, the president gave seniors a pep talk about what he wants to do for Medicare, contrasting it with plans of his Democratic rivals.