How The Oral Polio Vaccine Can Cause Polio One of the vaccines used to prevent polio has actually been causing some people to get the disease. Jason Beaubien
Polio Vaccine May Stall The End Of Polio Health officials have long known that virus from the oral vaccine can contaminate water supplies; they underestimated how big a problem this would be. Jason Beaubien
Oklahoma Judge Shaves $107 Million Off Opioid Decision Against Johnson & Johnson The new number from Judge Thad Balkman comes nearly three months after he ordered the drugmaker to pay $572 million for its role in the opioid crisis. Both sides had questioned that sum. Colin Dwyer
How Vaping Snuck Up On Regulators Evan as the popularity of e-cigarettes like Juul has exploded — with unknown health risks — the federal government has been slow to regulate vaping companies. Jim Zarroli
Kids could lose free school lunch if this change happens. (It's to save federal dollars) Activists delivered a petition with 1.5 million signatures to the agency in an effort to stop a rule change that would end automatic enrollment in free school lunch for nearly 1 million kids. Maria Godoy
Mold persists at Seattle Children's Hospital. State is investigating For the second time this year, Seattle Children’s Hospital has closed all its operating rooms due to a mold problem Paige Browning
House Oversight Committee Democrats To Examine Regulation Of Abortion Providers The hearing on Thursday will use Missouri — where the last remaining clinic that provides abortion could close over a dispute with health regulators — as a case study. Sarah McCammon
When Countries Get Wealthier, Kids Can Lose Out On Vaccines Childhood vaccines are often subsidized in the poorest countries. But not for those moving up the wealth ladder. Pien Huang
Rash of nursing home closures in Washington prompts proposals to raise Medicaid rates In response to a rash of nursing home closures in Washington, a Republican state senator is calling for an increase in Medicaid reimbursement rates and other steps to stave off additional closures. Austin Jenkins
Experts Worry Active Shooter Drills In Schools Could Be Traumatic For Students With lockdown drills now commonplace in public schools, experts question if they're doing more harm than good. "We don't light a fire in the hallway to practice fire drills," one professor tells NPR. Lulu Garcia-Navarro
