The Struggle To Hire And Keep Doctors In Rural Areas Means Patients Go Without Care A new generation of family physicians wants a work-life balance. But practicing in a small town is a 24/7 job, which is worsening the ongoing doctor shortage in rural America. Kirk Siegler
Fungus detected at Seattle Children's, prompting operating room closures A potentially harmful fungus has been detected at Seattle Children’s Hospital, prompting officials to shut down affected operating rooms. KUOW Staff
Locking up mentally ill, drug addicted people results in jail deaths, new report says The practice of locking up people who are chronically sick, mentally ill or drug addicted in under-resourced city, county and regional jails in... Austin Jenkins
When LA's Air Got Better, Kids' Asthma Cases Dropped New cases of asthma dropped dramatically in Los Angeles communities where air quality improved the most over 20 years. The results illustrate health benefits from pollution control. Richard Harris
Alabama Faces Deadline To Address Dangerous And Deadly Prison Conditions Critics say a plan to build new prisons won't solve the entrenched, underlying issues in the state prison system that have been found to be unconstitutional. Debbie Elliott
Homeless encampment cleared after drug bust A City of Seattle team began closing down an unauthorized homeless camp along South Dearborn Street in Seattle Monday. Kim Malcolm
The Other Reasons Kids Aren't Getting Vaccinations: Poverty and Health Care Access Religious and ideological opposition to vaccines has fueled the current measles outbreak. But there's another factor driving low vaccination rates in some communities: poverty. Selena Simmons-Duffin
What Abortion Was Like In The U.S. Before Roe V. Wade NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Karissa Haugeberg, assistant professor of history at Tulane University, about what it was like to get an abortion before Roe v. Wade.
Not Just For Soldiers: Civilians With PTSD Struggle To Find Effective Therapy Outside of military contexts, many therapists aren't familiar with two key treatment options for trauma recommended by the American Psychiatric Association and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Caroline Covington
How The Brain Shapes Pain And Links Ouch With Emotion Pain is more than an unpleasant sensation. When pain signals reach the brain, they interact with areas involved in thinking, memory and emotion. Jon Hamilton