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Patience And Fortitude On The Other End Of The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

The call came in late one summer night. Immediately, Paul Butler’s stomach sank and his heart sped up.“It’s always a worry in the back of your mind that…

Your Dog Does Listen to You

Ask any dog owner and they will tell you with certainty that their four legged friend can understand them. Now a study from the UK confirms it.Researchers…

A teenage girl gets a shot of HPV vaccine, which protects against a virus that causes cervical cancer.

Low-Income Teens Have Best Shot At Getting HPV Vaccine

Doctors have a hard time getting teenagers vaccinated, but they're making progress, according to data from the CDC. Low-income teens are most likely to get the first shot of HPV vaccine.

The California Public Employees' Retirement System has capped how much it will pay for some common medical procedures and tests.

More Insurers Put Spending Limits On Medical Treatments

To contain costs, some plans are capping how much they will pay for certain routine procedures, such as knee replacements. Patients can be on the hook for anything over the limit.

State Medicaid programs now have to cover a range of treatments for autism.

Federal Officials Order Medicaid To Cover Autism Services

Advocates for people with autism applauded the move, but some states are concerned about the costs of covering a wide range of therapy for children with autism.

Obesity Holds Steady In Most States, Still Rising In Some

Obesity has leveled off in most states but it's still a major problem, with over 30 percent of Americans struggling with bulging waistlines and associated…

In this close-up screenshot from a simulation video, you can see the exact moment NPR correspondent Daniel Zwerdling endured dangerous levels of stress on his spine while re-creating the way nurses push their patients in a lift chair. The blue arrows show the high magnitude and distribution of forces from his muscles, while the red indicates the high level of forces on his disks.

Even 'Proper' Technique Exposes Nurses' Spines To Dangerous Forces

What exactly is happening to nurses' backs when they move and lift patients? NPR's Daniel Zwerdling teamed with scientists for a high-tech look inside his own back as he tried the same maneuvers.

(L-R) Anthony (Tony) Givens, Alison Phinney and Nabarun Dasgupta pose with harm reduction supplies to hand out to people who use drugs in Portland, Maine, in 2002. Givens died of an overdose two years later.

How a friend's overdose drove a leading addiction scientist to look for answers

A leading addiction expert explains how he’s driven by the memory of a friend who died, and why he believes giving data on the drug supply to people on the street is more important than using it to inform national drug policy.

Three nurses tend to a newborn in JFK Memorial Hospital's neonatal intensive-care unit on Oct. 13. Since reopening in August, the hospital has delivered 500 babies and treated about 1,500 patients.

Back On Its Feet, A Liberian Hospital Aims To Keep Ebola Out

JFK hospital shut down when several doctors died of Ebola. Now it's open again. And the staff is taking rigorous measures to make sure the virus doesn't make its way past the front gate.

Particles of H5N1 virus — a particularly dangerous type of bird flu that can infect people — attack lung cells.

Feds Tighten Lab Security After Anthrax, Bird Flu Blunders

The sloppy handling by federal scientists of the world's scariest germs must stop, says the dismayed head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Are his new rules enough?

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