Health Officials Warn The Measles Outbreak Is Accelerating The U.S. has confirmed more than 500 measles cases so far this year. That's 50 percent higher than the total number recorded last year, even though we're only about a quarter of the way through 2019. Michaeleen Doucleff
Measles Outbreak 'Accelerates,' Health Officials Warn This year, the U.S. has confirmed 550 measles cases so far. A recent spike is connected to outbreaks in New York, but there are outbreaks in four other states too. Michaeleen Doucleff
Teen Dating Violence Can Lead To Homicide — Girls Are The Most Common Victims A study finds that about 7 percent of all teen homicides between 2003 and 2016 were committed by a romantic partner. The majority of victims were teen girls. Rhitu Chatterjee
No Fake Drugs, More Jobs For Youth, End Child Sexual Abuse Online: A Vision For 2030 The 5 recipients of the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship predict how their projects will make the world a better place. Marc Silver
Do You Love Lying In Bed? Get Paid By NASA To Do It For Space Research Researchers are currently looking for candidates who will stay in bed 24 hours a day, seven days a week for 60 straight days for a study on how the body adapts to weightlessness. Lindsey Feingold
Examining Sanders' Medicare-For-All Proposal Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News, describes the latest Medicare-for-all bill by Sen. Bernie Sanders and the options for single-payer coverage proposed by lawmakers.
Republican State Lawmakers Split Over Anti-Abortion Strategy Ohio is the latest Republican-led state to pass a ban on abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. But Tennessee this week backed off on a similar bill, fearing costly legal battles. What now? Blake Farmer
Why Astronomical Drug Prices Are Bad For Health — And Profits Fatima Suleman, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences, hopes that WHO's Fair Pricing Forum can help lower drug costs — and benefit drug manufacturers. Jason Beaubien
Sarah Corbett: How Can Introverts Be Activists Too? Sarah Corbett describes herself as an extreme introvert — but she's also an activist. She discusses how alternate forms of activism allow people like her to participate in quietly powerful ways. NPR/TED Staff
Does Empathy Have A Dark Side? It's good to feel empathy, right? Not always, says a forthcoming book. Humans are empathetic beings, and we sometimes harm others, not out of a failure of empathy, but because of it. Jonathan Lambert
